Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 331
I always went, you know, when people ask me the question, what’s the purpose of your zoo?… Read More
I always went, you know, when people ask me the question, what’s the purpose of your zoo?… Read More
Do you think that’s a good thing for other zoos to be doing?… Read More
Did those surveys about visitor attitude help you as director start to shape things or see things and the directions you might want to take?… Read More
This is, this is why the thousands of acres, 2000 acres that North Carolina has fortunate to have is it’s not just the exhibits themselves, it’s the, the total almost rural experience that you get around those exhibits. So, I mean, if you’ve got exhibits that are crowded together, which… Read More
But that’s why so many zoos over the last 50 years have created an, an outside the city zoo as well, in addition to what they’re doing inside or in, in a few cases, I’ve actually moved outside, which is what London should have done a long time ago. You… Read More
Does, does space in, in, in zoos, in in general continue to be a problem for zoos and aquariums?… Read More
Yes, it does. Well in, in many ways. A lot of today’s, especially the older zoos, of course, are, are having, and, and particularly city based, central, city based London, great example, where there’s no way that, that they can expand. And so you’re bound to have exhibits that are… Read More
Yeah, no, I mean very often, but you don’t ask it quite like that. You, you very quickly, if you, if you, if you put the question, okay, we’re gonna need some resources, we’re gonna need some money funding to do something with this exhibit in, in a roundabout way,… Read More
Is that a delicate question to ask people?… Read More
Who’s the decision maker?… Read More
And, and you go in and you think, well, yeah, maybe, you know, maybe it should, but it’s not going to, so how can we improve it?… Read More
But then resources are needed, so you have to go to that higher power if you like. So again, relationship building to the right person or people is really critical in, in building those, those sort of projects. Read More
If you are, if you are, mate, we’ve had, i I know situations in Indonesia for example, where we’ve been helping zoos there and you go in and expecting that most things can be decided on site, they can’t, somebody else is making those decisions or is, is involved in… Read More
So in developing these relationships, you’ve got to, the, a very important question is who, who actually is the person in charge?… Read More
And we are willing, we’ll we’ll pay for your hotel, but you’ve gotta pay for the airfare. That’s a, a common request. And you go in and then you find actually the director of Hanoi Zoo doesn’t, doesn’t necessarily have the power to make some of the decisions that you… Read More
It comes back to building the relationships with the people and very often identifying who the movers and shakers are in those situations. Read More
Because again, some projects that I’ve been involved in, for example, in Southeast Asia, in, in Malaysia, in Vietnam is you, if you take a, take a zuzu where we’ve been helping with Hanoi Zoo, for example, so the director of Hanoi Zoo may say, you know, can you send… Read More
I think it’s a, there’s a nervousness about the financial aspects of it. There’s a nervousness often about the people you are dealing with. I mean, I’ve, I’ve had several instances over the years where you’re dealing with pretty corrupt people at the other end, again, again, I’m talking about… Read More
Some of that is, is is rather the same as as what we’ve just been talking about?… Read More
What do you think is the most difficult concept for zoos to understand and implement regarding their relationship to observation?… Read More