Interview 366 – Caption Index: 333
And also, is the Frankfurt Zoo a private zoo?… Read More
And also, is the Frankfurt Zoo a private zoo?… Read More
Is it a public zoo?… Read More
Is it a different kind of zoo?… Read More
What are their aims?… Read More
Do they work together, do they work separate?… Read More
Do they have different philosophies?… Read More
But Martin, whom I knew very well for a long time, hasn’t had any zoo biological background. And so the Frankfurt Zoo people said, we are not going to teach our future director and they really started a very naughty campaign against Martin. And so he resigned before starting working… Read More
And a famous animal magazine in Germany that does tea and named me the conservationist among zoo people. And I was really very much into conservation, at that time, and so this was my main drive to apply for Frankfurt. And I really became Vice President in Frankfurt Zoological Society,… Read More
What is the difference between the zoo and the zoo society?… Read More
How did that happen?… Read More
I was approached by two persons in the surrounding of Frankfurt Zoo and Frankfurt Zoological Society says that advertisement for the director in Frankfurt was meant for me. And so I thought, well, let’s try, let’s see whether I can make it or not, without thinking very much. And it… Read More
Does the union embrace Russia and the former Yugoslavia zoos and Romania and all those areas or no?… Read More
The European Union, in spite of economic difficulties, is growing. Just, I think the 28th country, Croatia, became member of the European Union. But Russia will never be a member of the European Union. But are they members of the zoo association. The AAR SAR is covering all the European… Read More
How did you get to be the director of the Frankfurt Zoo?… Read More
Have they become closer together with their workings because of the European zoo association?… Read More
Has this brought them closer together?… Read More
Well, the European Association of Zoos and Acuaria was founded originally as a European Union zoo association. Even after the Iron Curtain is no longer existing, we are two parts. It’s European Union, nowadays 28 countries, and non-European union countries, as Switzerland, for example. And the European Union zoos needed… Read More
No, I wasn’t paid. If I would have cared for money, I would have become banker. Read More
The European collection of zoos, is it because of the organization?… Read More
When comes the election?… Read More