Interview 34507 – Caption Index: 514
’cause it had to look good on day one. I said, well then we should have brought more vines in on day one. But, Well, but you’ve seen these different exhibits. You’ve been, you know, intimately involved. Read More
’cause it had to look good on day one. I said, well then we should have brought more vines in on day one. But, Well, but you’ve seen these different exhibits. You’ve been, you know, intimately involved. Read More
I said, why, why, why did we put the rock bar?… Read More
Petersburg Zoo, that enclosures were so small, but the keepers took such good care of those animals that they were part of the animal’s life that, that, that, that helped. But if the highlight of the animal’s day is to see their keeper and be fed, then you’re doing something… Read More
So within three years you couldn’t even see the rock work, the vegetation covered. Read More
They don’t have the right combination of vegetation. There’s so many things wrong with, with habitats. Don’t get me started. I go to a habitat. I say, oh, if you just did this and this, you know, or you put the keeper or you rotate animals. Yeah. You know, don’t… Read More
Well, being a chair of the exhibits award committee and a CA for many years, we had to, we got all the applications in and we, we looked at exhibit design and there we had a lot of different criteria for what makes a good exhibit. But in the end… Read More
I don’t, we can’t quantify that. But that if that smile leads to something like it did for me or some other children, then, then it’s not anecdotal, but, but it’s also not something you can easily measure. So the wow factor is the animals are active to some degree,… Read More
How do you measure the smile on a kid’s face?… Read More
How did you try and achieve what I would call a wow impact in exhibit design?… Read More
And, and, but I wish, I wish I could do that. I wish we could do that for every person in this country. The country would be a lot better off, but that’s not gonna happen. But you’ve been involved in trying to put together exhibits and exhibit design in… Read More
I’ve seen people I’ve taken to Africa. The husband goes, well, my wife wanted to go. I didn’t really wanna go on this trip. And afterwards, he’s like a kid in a camp. He’s just, he’s, he just, he, he’s thanking me. This was the greatest trip I’ve ever been… Read More
It’s a great idea. Long term. If you have too many people that go over to Africa and they’re all over the place, you’re gonna destroy the, everything you’re trying to save. So you’re gonna limit the amount of tourism. But, but, but I lead tours all the time. I’ve… Read More
So it’s very important for that reason. It’s important. ’cause now they realize that they have a sustainable, you know, rather than poaching. And some of these guys were poachers before and now they’re, now they’re now they’re helping to save the animals because, because there’s a direct connection with,… Read More
I think that question gets asked more now than it has in the past. And I think that, I think the pressure from the outside, from outside has changed zoos a lot. Which is, again, reactive, then proactive, I think it was the guy from GM said something, when the… Read More
So I, I think that there is a growing subset of people and I think the, the generation Z of the millennials do ask those questions that we never asked in the, in the past, well this is nice, there’s this habitat, but what are you doing for these animals… Read More
How important do you believe tourism in Africa is to protect species? Long term, Short term?… Read More
You know, you gotta be innovative. So I, I think that’s the ch the challenge, the, the what I see, I see that, I see the, the, the benefit is that people are seeing the results of long-term thinking. The the triple bottom line approach, which is a, is a,… Read More
What, what are we gonna do now?… Read More
What worries me is the politics and the governments that make these decisions, you know, probably isolated from, from the communities that are there, I think. And, and politics doesn’t seem to, it’s not a long term conservation’s, long term commitment. Political, you know, political stuff is not, or even… Read More
And as we continue to talk about conservation, what worries you about it, but what gives you hope?… Read More