That’s a, a good question mark, because, you know, we all know private zoos. It’s the creation of a well-healed individual or couple, and nobody lives forever. Communities live forever. You know, that well-heeled individual who created that. Read More
No, you have to involve your community and ask them and get involved and find out what they really, really, really desire and what, what, what they would enjoy and what is true surface to them. Read More
What are your thoughts about private zoos by people of means?… Read More
And walk at golf at it and walk on. Okay?… Read More
You know, you, they’re hard questions to ask and it takes time and it takes resources to ask these questions, but you have to be relevant and you have to be pertinent. You have to be a part of the community to make it happen and to keep it alive. Read More
You know, what do you want regarding exhibitry regarding programming?… Read More
And so that’s where that connectivity with your constituents, listening to your constituents, visiting with your constituents, you know, when you go to remodel or expand your facility, you need to engage not only donors and the politicos, you need to involve your membership who do have memberships at the… Read More
Very concerned, absolutely completely concerned about them staying relevant in this day and age, because this day and age is so much different from when I was young or even middle age, regarding what people’s expectations are regarding entertainment and engagement. And, and they have so many choices with their… Read More
Relevant? What direction do you think will help ’em stay relevant?… Read More
Are you concerned about Zeus and aquarium staying viable and pertinent in the next 25 years?… Read More
Say it’s a balance. Okay. It, it’s a balance. We wanted to bring this mega, this species to this city to help inform and help educate. And we wanted to do it humanely with great animal welfare in place that requires this amount of space. Okay. And we decided to… Read More
It’s all a balance. It’s a balance of what mission are you trying to accomplish locally regarding education, informing and sharing what your constituents, what they would like and enjoy from an educational and exhibit perspective. And also having resources available to work in the field. Yes, we can overbuild… Read More
And you say what?… Read More
Mother Earth and her residents need a huge champion. We talked about exhibits. When a zoo spends multimillions of dollars on a gorilla or an elephant or a tiger exhibit, and critics ask why this money, which is usually in the multimillions, is not used to help the animals in… Read More
I don’t know. You know, the, the biggest challenge is when Jacque Gau, I remember Jacque Gusteau because the undersea world of Jacque Gusteau, there were three networks at the time. Okay? It wasn’t YouTube, there wasn’t social media. It was e everybody would talk about Ee world of Jacque… Read More
We need heroes. We absolutely need high profile heroes who are advocating, you know, Attenborough, you know, those kinds of wonderful people who are out there advocating for the earth for its diversity to protect it. Read More
Yes. You know, Jane, obviously Jane’s getting quite on an age, you know, do we have any of those right now?… Read More
My examples certainly are Jacque Sau or Jane Goodall, et cetera. Read More
Do we have any of those type of people now that you’re aware of?… Read More
What would you say is the role of conservation, breeding or breeding for conservation purposes in zoos relative to other conservation activities?… Read More