Interview 38268 – Caption Index: 454
And you’re creating laws to stop illegal trafficking, but it hasn’t stopped it. What it’s done is stop the honest person and not the dishonest person. So you better learn more about the animal. Read More
And you’re creating laws to stop illegal trafficking, but it hasn’t stopped it. What it’s done is stop the honest person and not the dishonest person. So you better learn more about the animal. Read More
Yeah. Well, the latest has been the Pangolin program. You know, here’s a species that the only thing that was going on when we started that program was people were raising money to do penguin surveys. And it’s like, that’s, that’s nice, but you’re not understanding the biology of the,… Read More
What would you say is your prowess accomplish Procession that I’m proudest of?… Read More
If I can vet you and you’re taking the quality care and you’re spending your personal time and money and your commitment, why not?… Read More
Now, I don’t want you to go out and put up barb wire and chicken wire to keep a tiger. Now, that’s crazy. So there’s some restrictions and there’s some guidance into, if you wanna become a member, we wanna look at your facility, you wanna make sure you’re safe. Read More
And I think they need to continue to do that and continue to hammer away at trying to get cooperation with a ZA. But a ZA also has a philosophy of saying, you’re a private individual, you shouldn’t have exotics. We talked about that. I don’t necessarily agree with that. Read More
No, we’re not going to. And that’s how they operate. So they have a lot of smaller zoos, they have a lot of private institutions, and it’s been challenging, but it’s been rewarding since I’ve been on it. We’ve, we’ve really created some, some guidelines now to move that forward. Read More
But what they’ve based it on is volunteer. Whereas a ZA has based it on you do this, or we’ll sanction you give your animal out here. If you’re a part of it, you have to. Z said, well, no, we’re not gonna do that. We’ll create a core group… Read More
Are we gonna say you can’t be a member of the ZAA and have other benefits?… Read More
Okay? We have enough from a genetic standpoint, using some of Bob Lacey’s work to say, we can build a sustainable program with this core population. We’d love for you to come in and add your genetics, but if you don’t want to, you don’t have to. Read More
You know, a CA used to do a fishing cat program. Well, they kinda let it go. Well they were fishing cat and the ZAA. So when I first got involved, I said, listen, here’s, here’s who you contact at Brookfield Zoo, because they’re the head of the fishing cat… Read More
You know, ZAA offers additional space to provide your capability to develop bigger sustainable populations. Why not cooperate? Now, ZA got a bad rep in the beginning. I won’t mention names, but it got a bad rep when it started. And it should have because of why it started. You… Read More
Yes, I think there is, and I say that because I’m involved with both. I’m a member of both. And I sit on the ZAA, which is the other one. I sit on their animal program committee, their conservation committee, and I see what they’re trying to do. And Fish… Read More
So American Zoo and Aquarium Association, there are now two professional zoo associations, zoological Association of America. Read More
Is there room for both?… Read More
What would you do that, that you think would pique your interest or your peers interest?… Read More
I don’t know that we’re doing that kind of thing because we’re all stuck with, well, we need to do this, we need to educate this way. The educators wanna educate in a class. The kids aren’t interested in that, so let’s go out and talk to them and, and… Read More
Then sit down and say, how would you promote us?… Read More
They would bring in a group of people, let ’em see a pilot or something, and they would sit down and begin to interview ’em and say, what do you think of it?… Read More
I think zoos ought to do the same thing. Let’s bring, bring in high school kids and sit down with them for two or three days and walk ’em through the zoo, talk about everything we’re doing. Read More