So in general, it’s quite an impressive and successful trend we have created. And so that’s probably the one point I’m most proud of, that I was part of this start of the EEPs. Later on the British colleagues joined and there are some British colleagues who still say Great… Read More
Have the EEPs been successful?… Read More
And are zoos able to go outside of the guidelines of the EEPs to acquire different species?… Read More
It was Sven Jurgenson from Copenhagen, it was Ilke Koviska from Helsinki. It was Jean-Marc Lerneu from Meilouse. And I could convince, Kuntenoke from Cologne, to attend this meeting. And you see, it’s just one chairman attending and four Dutch and Belgian colleagues. And I was the only non-director taking… Read More
In November of ’85, we officially started it. And there were the same points. I was asked as non-director to start the rules, to provide the rules. I was asked to name the species with which we should begin. It was 19 species. I was asked to suggest coordinators and… Read More
And we wanted to have included the German zoos as well and so we formulated transfers without money involved or suggested, but it was not mandatory. But it was a development that nowadays animals are transferred without money involved anymore. But what is interesting, you have had the American Association… Read More
And who were some of the other people that were responsible for the development?… Read More
Well, as I just mentioned, I think Bill Conway and Uly Seal really are the fathers of the SSP, the species survival programs, in North America. And the British people soon followed with the joint management of species group. But in both cases, it was much, much easier than in… Read More
And, for example, Eastern colleagues hardly could travel into Western Europe. So these were the difficulties. But we saw that we have to overcome this. And so in ’85, June of ’85, we met for the first time. And, as I say, we were eight colleagues. It was Dick Van… Read More
Whereas, in German-speaking countries, we will also have a little distance. So I was rather the extraordinary person in the German-speaking countries. You were one of the founders of EEP. Read More
What is it?… Read More
Can you kind of explain what it is?… Read More
The conservation, originally Captive Breeding Specialist Group of IOCN SSC had some forerunners that were not very successful. The intention always was to have a link between in situ and ex situ conservation and conservation breeding. And therefore we changed, finally, the naming to Conservation Breeding Specialist Group. And in… Read More
And there were not enough sleeping rooms, so we had to share sleeping rooms. But it was like a family and it grew and nowadays there are, I think, about 300 attendants to the annual meetings. So it’s a very important organization. But as acceptance of CBSG is again very… Read More
When you talk about loans, the question comes up then, with captive breeding, how did the Captive Breeding Specialist Group, now the Conservation Breeding Specialist Group, begin?… Read More
What was going on that made this group important?… Read More
And what countries were involved with this group?… Read More
Did you find that most curators were collegial to one another?… Read More
That they did work or wanted to work well together?… Read More
The curators, I think, worked very well together. I can bring one example, in Switzerland. As mentioned before, I was curator of mammals and birds and a fellow curator in Bern was curator of birds. And by the way, Klaus Robin was another student of Heini Hediger. And we more… Read More