Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 249
What Do you know about this profession?… Read More
What Do you know about this profession?… Read More
What have you gleaned from it personally?… Read More
You’ve spent all these years working in zoos. Read More
As it affects you personally?… Read More
Do you mean what in in what way?… Read More
What do you know about this profession that you’ve devoted so many years of your life?… Read More
What, what do you know about this?… Read More
So it depends a lot on what that collection consists of. And we’ve got this big issue right now with this. You can’t call it anything less than a breeding farm in South Africa with 2000 white rhinos just being taken over by Africa parks, thank goodness, goodness know, goodness… Read More
Well, it depends a bit on what the collection is. If it’s as it is in most cases of quite important species, species that are important to the, the main, the mainstream, the mainstream breeding programs, the mainstream reintroduction programs, whatever the purpose of that plan may be, then, then… Read More
So you come back to the whole question of, well, is it, is it a euthanasia issue?… Read More
How do you deal with that collection?… Read More
Are they anything other than sort of egotistical, you know, I, I have such and such a collection and that’s, that’s why I have it. But if their, if their objectives with that collection are aligned with the public zoo, the, you know, the best of the public zoos, then… Read More
Well, I think women Are no longer around. Yeah. Yeah. I mean that’s, that’s one of the, I mean I think there are two big issues here. Read More
One is that do they, what are their purposes in having those private collections?… Read More
Will they survive the length of time municipal zoos have when you have people who have great wealth and open up a zoo?… Read More
What are your thoughts about private zoos owned by people of means?… Read More
Are you concerned about zoos and aquarium staying viable and pertinent in the next 25 years?… Read More
I think some zoos will remain viable. And now I’m, look, I’m looking at a sort of 30 to 50 year timeframe. What we’re going to see is a much greater understanding on the part of the public as to what zoos should be, and particularly in terms of welfare… Read More
What do you think, what direction do you think would help them stay relevant?… Read More
Now these are the ones that are thinking clearly there’s obviously not gonna be, it never is going. The, the realism is that you are never going to move 5 million bucks from one exhibit into field exhibit. There’s, there’s recently a report come out done by born free of… Read More