Interview 33485 – Caption Index: 154
You know, what are they doing for, you know, conservation of species with within the UK or the US or wherever they happen to be?… Read More
You know, what are they doing for, you know, conservation of species with within the UK or the US or wherever they happen to be?… Read More
What are they doing in their own country?… Read More
You know, what, what are they doing in range countries?… Read More
Oh, threats of physical violence. No, I think set the example. You know, there’s, and you know, the, we, you know, we’ve come back to this theme of, you know, the, okay, the big zoos can do this, the smaller zoos have a harder time doing it. So, but I… Read More
How do he inspires you then to be more active in conservation?… Read More
It, it, you know, to, to the, the average person killing animals, particularly ones from threatened species seems completely contradictory to protecting them. But in actual fact, there may be a very positive role to play. And, you know, if we look at the disappearance of large mammals throughout the,… Read More
It’s bandit country, it’s high-end hunting that supports conservation in northern Kenya. It’s not a tourist industry. And I think zoos do themselves and conservation a disservice by not endeavoring to explain the, the, the, the difficult, the harder aspects of conservation, particularly conservation in the field that, you know,… Read More
What was the most difficult concept for zoos to understand and implement regarding their relationship to conservation?… Read More
This is gonna sound a bit more like a hobby horse, but I think when it comes back to understanding how wild populations need to be managed, and as I said, you know, managing captive populations, one runs into the same problem we have. There’s an argument in many western… Read More
Some zoos do it very well. Some zoos, many zoos don’t do it at all. But it’s a, it’s an important one, I think. And the ones that do it well are the ones that we should be looking at as an example. Okay. Right. You know, that’s a big… Read More
Sorry, could you ask that again?… Read More
What would you say is a difficult concept for zoos to understand and implement regarding their relationship to conservation?… Read More
Can they be partners?… Read More
I, I think it depends on the situation. I think as, as we look more and more at returning animals to the wild where they may have disappeared wild cats in Scotland, or a good example, links reintroduction in parks on continental Europe. I think there’s a strong role to… Read More
So you use the resources you have for the time that you have them and to the best of your ability. And good private people, I think are crucial because it allows us to actually expand the sizes of the populations we have as zoos lean more towards the a,… Read More
And, but I think it is even more pertinent when it comes to reptiles birds and probably increasingly in vector Brits Is the national park we talked about the wild is the, within Europe is the national park and helping national parks, part of what zoos think about being partners… Read More
What do you think about private breeders and, and can they be partners with zoos?… Read More
I mean obviously like, like zoos, there’s good zoos, there’s bad zoos, there’s good private breeders or private holders, there’s bad ones and it’s incredibly easy to differentiate between the, the good, the bad and the ugly. And I think for, I mean you, I mean I’m, you know, my… Read More
And I think it’s also something that where a lot of Z zoo management, they have a disconnect with their public ’cause the public do not give monkeys about having that big blue barrel and that polar bear enclosure. They do care about watching that polar bear trying to kill… Read More
I think that when, if you’re, I mean, and this is one thing that the American zoo community has been much better at say, than here in, in the us And that at that’s raising donor money for these facilities. I think they miss a trick in that you’ve, you’ve… Read More