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
Good question. The, the, the reality is that the sources of money to build an exhibit, an expensive exhibit and the source of money to help in the field are usually from completely different people. So very often the people that are generating or finding the resources to build that… Read More
You say what?… Read More
Well, to be honest, I’m IDI, there are many and younger ones coming on, I don’t know them, but there, there are certainly, from what I’m hearing, there are quite a number of young, younger, I’m talking now about late teens, twenties and thirties, something that, you know, that are… Read More
Obviously Jane Goodall is an example, Jacque au Do we have any now? Do we need them?… Read More
Do you feel we need, or do we have a charismatic and committed heroes to help shift public opinion for conservation?… Read More
And those, I think quite rightly, the, although most zoos that are breeding for good reasons, endangered species are continuing with that, we are now seeing a lot more resources put into the messaging and the field involvement of zoos in these, in these much wider issues and particularly within… Read More
Do you mean in terms of the emphasis put on it? Yes, yes. I don’t think it’s as important as it used to be. I mean, it start when zoos started talking about their role in conservation. Very often the conversation turned quite quickly to, oh, we are breeding such… Read More
What would you say is the role of conservation breeding in zoos relative to other conservation activities?… Read More
The problem comes when you, you know, coming to other, say other who, you know, not, not the elephants are, but for large ungulates, large hoofstock, large herbivores where space is very limited. Again, coming back to our conversation about private ownership, very often a lot of those surplus animals… Read More
There’s no way you can’t fumble it. You can’t sort of get around it by all sorts of lame excuses that, oh, I, you know, I we we will find them another home. It’s, it’s absolutely critical that if, if there is nowhere good for those animals to go, then… Read More
And therefore, you know, they have to ask the question, well, is that really the best thing for that animal in terms of quality of life?… Read More
So how should zoos deal with surplus animals?… Read More
Well, I mean, one thing is obviously to make sure that you don’t breed. If you can make sure, make sure you don’t breed any animals that are not gonna find a home or not find a good home. And this, that, that is a big challenge, of course, is… Read More
The question of euthanizing surplus animals that cannot be part of the breeding community is an ethical one. It’s not a welfare one. As, as a veterinarian, I don’t have any problem with putting animals down, even healthy animals if it’s done properly and humanely, yes, it’s an ethical issue. Read More
It’s wrong. And there are situations where such animals can be found homes. We’ve, we’ve done this within wild welfare where we found animals homes. But very often in situations where surplus animals are found homes, the situation for them, the surroundings, the environment that they then have is, is… Read More
Does euthanizing of endangered species, surplus genetic issues still pros a political problem for zoos and Aquarius?… Read More
Yeah, yeah, very, very much so. I think it’s, it’s posed a lot more of a problem I think here and in the UK than it does in, in much of Europe. You, you have national attitudes really to the way that handles are animals are, are dealt with. And… Read More
Absolutely never a dull moment. I mean, that’s, you hear, you know, you hear so much from, from young folks about jobs that are boring jobs that, you know, because so many young people want to be sort of on the move subject wise, they’re always looking for something new. Read More
Nothing. Read More