Probably the most important thing in terms of changes today, I, you know, again, just telling you a story about my background with it, because of all the, all the antagonism that I had at London over London Zoo, they picked on the anti zoo lobby he picked on London… Read More
And so the, and so the emphasis was so much on field conservation that welfare was rather, I wouldn’t say pushed aside, but it was rather a sort of, you know, it was, it wasn’t as important to them as the conservation side. Now that has begun to change now,… Read More
Do Zeus and Aquas need to be more involved with animal welfare?… Read More
Yeah, there, there’s very much a tendency I think, but you know, the fact where you’ve got private individuals with the money enough to, to have their own private collections tend to be quite possessive. Now that’s not, I think because they are suspicious of government and very often don’t,… Read More
I mean a lot of those folks now are taking part in, in international programs. Read More
So, and Zeta is still involved in Saudi Arabia with, with some of that, some of it’s obviously been managed by their own folks now. But there were, particularly in that region, there were a number of governments that came to us asking, asking for help to, you know, to… Read More
Yeah, very, very much so. Probably more much, well more so at London certainly, but in North Carolina that’s beginning to happen. Where, where we’ve, we’ve developed particular techniques of, particularly of anti-poaching techniques, which are now being asked for are now being now being asked for by a number… Read More
Do you find that private individuals in your experience, seem reticent to give up their private stock to a government or an NGO or some program to make conservation better in not their area, so to speak, or their backyard?… Read More
Do you find that, aside from a national park where the zoo goes to the one place in Africa, let’s say, do people, have you had any experience where countries have approached zoos to, to help get their assistance in conservation?… Read More
Do you mean, this sounds a bit like the national park question, but do you mean governments who would, Well or zoos in other countries reaching out?… Read More
Your walking, the walking, walking the roots yourselves and then, and then obviously carrying out, dealing with their opinions one way or another, but dealing with their opinions in a, in a sensitive way. So direct person to person contact. Really critical. Read More
Are there countries at least that you’ve observed outside the US that might assist or partner with zoos that would be in the best use of the zoo’s resources regarding conservation?… Read More
Very, and I wasn’t terribly good at it, I think, I think partly because I had so many other involvements and so many sort of networks in the local community that I was sort of juggling. But it is really, really critical I think in North Carolina, because we had… Read More
How important is it for, in your opinion, for a zoo director to make rounds?… Read More
And I’m sure it would. I think the difficulty is, again, I think it comes back entirely to, entirely to finance. You mentioned North Carolina 2000 acres big place. Read More
Would it, but would it make any difference?… Read More
But a lot of the continental zoos, if you look at what they’ve done over the last 10 or 15 years for example, are still still very much building facilities that are pretty conventional in the way that they look. There’s, there’s some effort obviously to make the, to make… Read More
But I think again, if you look at, if you said to some of the, the European Zoo directors, if you had double the resources or triple, which would be the case in the us would you do, would you make the exhibit different?… Read More
And so when, you know, when I mentioned to colleagues in, in UK that the North Carolina Zoo is in the process of spending $200 million on new exhibits right now, mind you, that’s, that didn’t happen in my time. We were pretty short of money. But it is happening… Read More
Money? Biggest difference, probably zoos in the US have been really, when I’m talking about the mainstream zoos are not, not so much the smaller private operations, but on the whole, the larger zoos have been pretty well financed by, by, by any global standard over, you know, over the… Read More