It’s about 50 50 state and run run from income on the zoo site. So the state, as you can imagine, depending, depending on the state’s overall financial condition, we’ve, you always, as a director, and this is one, you know, it’s common to all directors, but particularly if they’re… Read More
Well, we are pretty prepared. I mean, being a highly tree site and much of our woodland is fairly mature, so it’s not always gonna be, you know, standing upright. In fact, we’ve had, you know, we’ve had several storms in my time, which have downed a lot of trees,… Read More
We do get the occasional minor earthquake. Never, never done any major damage winds can be quite strong at times there. But we have in, within the horticulture department, we also have a specialist tree team for people who do nothing else but look after the trees and shrubs. So… Read More
The, you know, because what we’ve been seeing is a lot of, a lot of development coming out of, particularly Raleigh and Charlotte. It’s happening now in the trial coming towards us. One of the reasons why, you know, I wanted to get all that extra land for, for the,… Read More
Not one at the time, but absolutely the right choice. Now How does the zoo prepare for natural weather disasters?… Read More
So there was a, I think a lot of wise thinking that, well it may not be the obvious place right now, but you go a few years and it will be, and they were dead, right?… Read More
So they had, they got the thousand acres without too much debate. The 500,000, the half million was a bit more difficult. But they did get it very, very determined. And so in, and I think also at government level, state government level, they, there was some good foresight in… Read More
Four lane, four lane highways. Read More
What are the advantages and the disadvantages?… Read More
Yeah, my, I mean when I first, that was one of the things I wondered when I first went, why Ashbury is right smack in the middle of the state. There’d been in the seventies, had been, you know, debate seventies into the early eighties about having a state zoo. Read More
How does that, you said you purchase art every year, are you, you have, We, and we encourage, and we, well different ways. We’ve had, we’ve had people, individuals and companies coming to us saying, you know, we’d like to sponsor a, a bronze at the giraffe exhibit. And not… Read More
And what, what they did interestingly was they shortened the team, the, the sort of arts team with, with other non-arts input, chose five and then put it out for public debate. And, and this, this particular, this particular model came back as being the one that they wanted. So… Read More
Do you have an artist in residence?… Read More
Do you have calls for art?… Read More
Yeah, mul multimedia. Mul multimedia for, you know, in different ways. So, so bronze is, yes, woodcarving amazing, the sort of panoramas in glass where you walk past them and they move with you. So everything which, which are main arctic exhibit has these wonderful panels, which as you walk… Read More
So do you have, so do you have competitions for the art every year?… Read More
’cause it’s so big. It’s, you know, quite a, quite a sort of roadway. And these adorn it. And then they, the couple paid for that. And then they came back and then they came back and said, we’d rather like this, so we are gonna give you sum of… Read More
So even before this sort of major staff interest in building that arts program, there had been a sort of embryo arts program that the state itself had started. But this one particular individual and, and of course I, you know, I’m also very keen on the arts and that’s… Read More
Now is this arts program in all types of art or is it exclusive to Sculpture?… Read More
Well, we had both retired now, but we had a, a extremely good head of horticulture and a and a a, a really good head of the design department. North Carolina Zoo is very, it, it it’s endowed with an extremely skilled group of design and construct and talking about… Read More