Interview 33485 – Caption Index: 75
Should it be regional endangered species, more typical collection of the endangered or non endangered species?… Read More
Should it be regional endangered species, more typical collection of the endangered or non endangered species?… Read More
You know, you need the commitment, you need to be able to raise the money to attend meetings or make a contribution to a center in Vietnam or wherever it might be. And being able to, and everybody’s gonna have access to, there’s gonna be local people with money that… Read More
And so, you know, being involved with you, something like, you know, pangolin conservation in Vietnam is okay, right?… Read More
Everyone can afford to have say a commitment towards an invertebrate no matter what size your zoo. Read More
What do you think a small or a medium size municipal zoo could do today to be involved in wildlife conservation, either on a national level or possibly internationally?… Read More
There? I mean this is a, this is a, a subject that comes up quite often and, you know, for, for smaller zoos being okay, how, you know, there’s no way I can be a zoological society of London or, you know, WCS or San Diego. They just don’t have… Read More
But at a very senior level. I’ve seen a couple of good ones. I’ve seen a lot of bad ones. There are many zoos. They’re small, medium. Read More
What skillset do you think a zoo director needs today as compared to when you started?… Read More
I mean, zoos have become much more complex organisms, and I mean, particularly when one is looking at it from a, not so much a UK perspective, but say a North American or a continental European perspective where your zoo is funded by local government, one doesn’t necessarily, you certainly… Read More
A good zoological manager?… Read More
I think probably the most important aspect is having started from the shop floor as a baby zookeeper and working my way up. So I had a good understanding of, of what to expect from people, what they should expect from me. So having worked for a, a wide range… Read More
What do you think made you a, a good manager?… Read More
And so it was devising a barrier technique that was inexpensive, which also enabled you to fence in a very large area. And that was, that was kind of the turning point in the change in how polar bears are kept, certainly in the uk. Read More
So I had to come, okay, right, how can, how can we do this cheaply?… Read More
Most old polar bear enclosures had basically been lots of concrete, lots of steel. I think the a ZA recommendations for polar bears is still a 16 foot high fence. And I went, I was asked to rehouse the single, so the, the last zoo polar bear in the uk… Read More
I was curator of mammals at London Zoo. What do you mean?… Read More
What was the revolutionary?… Read More
I don’t have an interview and a curator position at Singapore came up. I applied, they got straight back in touch with me, flew myself, my wife out to have a lookie and an interview, obviously very interesting place, fantastic zoo, amazing animal collection. And so it was like, okay,… Read More
So there was only a handful of experienced keepers. Then they hired all these university graduates who didn’t know the first thing about working in zoos, but all had very firm opinions of how it should be done. And it was, it was an incredibly frustrating experience. But, well, I… Read More
And then I’d, I’d applied for various positions in the states without success, not even getting interviews, which I thought was strange. Read More