Interview 38268 – Caption Index: 591
Are they big zoos?… Read More
Are they big zoos?… Read More
San Diego, Lincoln Park, Brookfield, New York. No, they’re not big zoos. They’re smaller zoos and their clientele are, tend to be more local or maybe tourist run. But I think if they’re not legislated outta business, I think they’ll survive because they made a commitment. It’s markets, it’s their… Read More
If you’re, you know, municipality, zoo, you get your money from the city as well as, you know, through your gate possibly, or like Lincoln Parks free still to get in, right?… Read More
Does that impact some of their decisions on what they may exhibit or how they exhibit?… Read More
Yeah, it does, but there’s a lot of, there’s a number of successful private zoos. Read More
Will they survive the length of time municipal zoos have?… Read More
I think there’s a lot of private zoos that are surviving because they’re, they’re run as, although I’ve said a zoos of business, they’re run as a for-profit business. Read More
They’re gonna start looking at growing corn here. Well, that may be habitat loss. And that’s all driven by population growth. So I, it, it’s tough to tell ’em, but again, I just try and be as truthful as I can and say, yeah, we’re all part of the problem. Read More
What are your thoughts about private zoos owned by people of means?… Read More
Well, if, if they can’t grow corn here, guess where they’re gonna go?… Read More
What does that mean for the areas where they’re not failing?… Read More
What’s changing with agriculture?… Read More
Where are areas failing in agriculture because of climate change?… Read More
Are they still losing numbers? Why is that happening?… Read More
And you know, I could spend $70 million out in the field doing something, but am I gonna make a big difference when the biggest, and this is controversial to an extent, the biggest roadblock to successful conservation is human population growth. Now I’ve been told that worldwide we’re almost,… Read More
Well, it’s a hard one because sometimes I agree. You know, I, I talked about a while ago, I was talking about, you know, do you need to make huge grandiose exhibits when you can accomplish the same thing, maintain the level of welfare for the species and not spend… Read More
You say what?… Read More
Where are they right now? Are they stable?… Read More
The same is true for our profession. It’s just they’re not taking the time to study the history they wanna get going. I came out, I got my degree, I wanna be a curator. Well, hold on. There’s a learning curve that’s involved. And again, this is where we as… Read More
And I, I don’t know what that is, but I think that’s part of the issue with it. How When a zoo spends, and you kind of touched on when a zoo spends multimillions of dollars on a gorilla or an elephant or tiger exhibit, and critics ask why this… Read More