But the Brook, as I said, the Brook, the Brook was extremely valuable in getting into the welfare network. But what happened then was that I was asked after cutting the giraffes, toenails and a few other things, story in its own right. I was asked to join the then… Read More
And she bought the whole lot in the end over three year period. And then with money left over, founded this clinic, the Brook Hospital for Animals. And that, at the time that I was involved with them, was still, you know, it was quite a, quite a, a major… Read More
But, so I haven’t had actually a lot to do, you know, other than, other than being part of the Brook operation and helping to found, I actually was chairman when we founded Brooke Pakistan, Brooke India and Brooke Jordan and Pakistan, India and Egypt and Ethiopia and now the… Read More
Is the brook involved with equine welfare within the zoo world?… Read More
There’s no, no, there’s no direct connection with the zoo world at all. I mean, it, it, it was just that, what happened then was that the, the brook in running a clinic in, let me go, go back a step. The founder, the founder of the Brook, Dorothy Brook,… Read More
And then in, in negotiation, in discussion, have sort of tweaked those standards. So they now have their own set of standards, which are not very different to, you know, other associations. So we’re getting to the, and there is an exit strategy with Brazil that in another two years… Read More
So a lot of it now involves training. A lot of it, when the Brazilian zoo, the Brazilian Zoo Association asks us to go in, they have 70 odd members. I think there’s about 150 zoos in Brazil, but half of them are part of the Brazilian Zoo Association. They… Read More
So does wild welfare then one aspect go into a zoo that needs help and rehabilitate exhibits, give them a collection plan, do they do that kind of thing?… Read More
Because it can be a daunting task to correct and move forward exhibitry in a smaller, we’ll say third World Zoo. Well, there, there is, that is a role in some instances where we’ve gone in and given them sort of broad, it’s, it, it’s, it’s always been welfare based,… Read More
But the, the staff of both work together on, on a more or less a single program of, of activity. And what’s happening is that particularly the US one is supported by a number of US zoos. WW always has had good support from about 10 or a dozen of… Read More
But certainly wanting to work with ’em on particular projects. And the other one is the whole question that we’re, you know, we’ve been talking about, which is one zoo giving help as a zoo to another zoo or to a zoo association. So those are the ways in which… Read More
You know, I’m talking about mostly developing country zoos. The answer is yes, but very often the same issues that we talked about in, in other partnerships is not really understanding what that, what that involves. But what we are seeing in, while welfare is growing interest in individuals within… Read More
I I’ve never heard of. But what we’re finding is that those sort of association or those, whether individual zoos or associations are, are want, want more help with improving their welfare. And, and while welfare obviously is a very good way to, to channel that, So is wild welfare,… Read More
And the other, and the other part of the question, which is, should, should zoos be doing more in terms of improving the welfare in other zoo?… Read More
I mean, there were, you know, if they tried to go in and sort out problems with as they saw problems zoo, they simply didn’t have the expertise and certainly not the expertise to go beyond the immediate emergency needs. And so what, while welfare is doing is taking a… Read More
This is in 1970. And so, yes, I thought this sounds rather interesting. So I did, and it was funded by this organization called The Brook. It was called the Brook Hospital for Animals at the time that had been founded in the 1930s by the wife of the Commanding… Read More
Now, the, the amusing story, I’m going off on a tangent a bit here, but the amusing story is that when I’d been one year at Whipsnade as the first full-time veterinary officer there, I got this strange call one morning from a lady saying, would I go to Cairo… Read More
And they all knew that I was, you know, either running London Zoo or, you know, but in later years after, while Welfare was formed here, here in, you know, was in north with, I was a zoo director. But what that did was create a medium in which I… Read More
And he, and I’d already done some work in, in Africa on what happened on the back of my involvement with the Kabul Zoo. You know, after the American troops took over Kabul, we raised funds to regenerate that zoo. And then a little bit too, with the Baghdad Zoo,… Read More
A lot, but not, I mean, I’m, I’m very much in touch with the folks. I’ve senior staff and my, you know, my successor and I are very close and we meet frequently to talk about how things are going. So in terms of my involvement with the, with the… Read More