Interview 34507 – Caption Index: 414
And, and then maybe it’s about giving to people, right?… Read More
And, and then maybe it’s about giving to people, right?… Read More
Is there methodologies that can help them buy into it?… Read More
So now they care about the animal, then you go to their head and then you can educate them. And then you can say, well, you know, these guys are doing okay, but they could use help in the wild. And we have organizations that we can help. And then… Read More
You know, yes. And, and, but they’re little steps. You know, we talk about the behavior change. You can change a visitor’s perspective, but you don’t do that by attacking them. When they first come in saying, oh, do you realize, you know how urgent this is and we need… Read More
You know, is it 3% of your budget? Is it 5% of your budget?… Read More
Do visitors, are there ways that one can engage visitors to help conservation to give when they’re at the zoo to give money?… Read More
But it needs to be part of your budget because I don’t think zoos can exist if they’re not proving that they can save, help save animals in the wild. If you can’t do that, I’m not so sure you can justify why you should have animals in captivity. You’ve… Read More
And they do more. You can never, there’s no finish line in conservation. So, you know, you’re never gonna get to the point where we’ve done enough. Read More
Well, money always comes up as well. Conservation’s a nice to have if we have it in the budget. And most zoos do not budget for conservation. They ask for donations. You have to use your earned revenue that you make from the gate and sales. You have to put… Read More
There are some, there are many issues, but are, is there one or two or major issues that you’d like zoos to address in the future?… Read More
It, it’s a great idea. And, and it, the reason it didn’t work, and Conway, bill Conway called it extractive reserves. You know, we, we, we can, the zoo can also support kind of a, a, a park or, or a habitat in the wild that’s kind of a, a… Read More
But I think money and leadership is what is what challenged it. But it’s a great idea and it should. And there are some zoos, little Boise Zoo had a great in Idaho, had a great program with Steve Burns when he was there with, with the park in, in… Read More
You know, if you’ve got a family in Africa and your kids are starving and there’s one wildebeests left, you’re gonna shoot the wildebeests. ’cause you have no alternative. You gotta give people alternative. That’s why ecotourism is important, you know, that’s why we go over there too, so that… Read More
Oh, there’s a kill. Oh, I, I don’t think I wanna see that. Okay, but that’s Africa then. So I don’t think, I think they’re alienated from nature and they, and then they have the benefit of, of having a return of lifestyle that a lot of people don’t. So,… Read More
It’s really good. I said, yeah, but they do a lot of things that are not good, especially where your son’s working, you know, as a profession. And so she didn’t give to PETA anymore. But, but again, there’s a lot of, there’s a lot of common common tenets of,… Read More
And, and so does conservation to some, I mean, animal welfare conservation is animal welfare in the wild, kind of, you know, if you want to look at it that way. But I think that 90, 95% of animal rights, people believe in what, what we believe in. You know,… Read More
Yeah. Animal welfare and animal rights are, they overlap a lot, right?… Read More
I’ve been on safaris with people, oh, you wanna see you?… Read More
What’s your opinion about the balance of animal rights?… Read More
I, I became a little bit more animal rightsy. I’m not, not, I’m not a, you know, animal rights will talk about, you know, that, that’s more of a philosophical belief. But I, you know, I I really thought I developed much more of a, a, of a full understanding… Read More