Well, when I left high school, I didn’t know what to really know what to study. And I decided for biology because this was the random of animals and not so much the plant. I was enthusiastic about it. And then I started the study at the University of one… Read More
How are you motivated and why?… Read More
What keeps you going?… Read More
You come from a varied background, you have many interests, medical entomology, scientific research. You’ve dealt with zoos in Afghanistan and Germany teaching elephants. Read More
You understand what I mean?… Read More
But, well, let me say so in conservation programs, or not in conservation programs, but in the, in the conservation of species in the wired and there are other, what do we say that builds other justifications in the zoo?… Read More
Every individual counts in the wired, not the individual counts, but the welfare, I mean of the whole population. Read More
Is there, in your opinion, a difference between animal welfare and species conservation In general?… Read More
I would say there is no difference if we, we have to keep the animals at the zoo at our best knowledge of welfare. Read More
Hmm. They have to be brave. They have to think about it to develop their own ideas and brave enough to implement them. In your book you have said it’s an important task of zoos and we’ve talked briefly to contribute to the conservation of endangered species through breeding. Read More
Why?… Read More
Well, if you want to release animals, you have to breed them first. You have to get a, a quite sufficient number of specimens to release. But as I said already, conservation is not only breeding program, release program, it is also education of the people. Read More
And I said, okay, I don’t like it, but I insist or I allow you to make this series on cologne. You, if you from time to time speak about conservation of our research programs, of everything what is behind the scene and people don’t know about it. And they… Read More
Okay. Now do you have any advice or suggestions for those who want to make a difference in the zoo world? Young people?… Read More
But how can then, what is the road for zoos to be more than entertainment for the children?… Read More
Sure. That is difficult. We have to go outside to invite people to the zoo and try to get films in the TV on what we really do. For instance, in Germany, some 20 years ago there was a wave of popular documentaries on zoos we have for each of… Read More
No, museums are real culture and are visited by knowing people. And so, and under the line, very few people, a zoo is something for children. You go if you have small children to the zoo or if you grandparents, you come with your uncles. So zoos in the public… Read More
Do you believe that zoos have yet reached the cultural status?… Read More
Are they the same cultural status as museums?… Read More
Well, at my time I made the press work myself. Nowadays they have a staff of people, press people. And I don’t know what kind of people, I think it’s very important to have a personal relation to the press people. I mean there are two large newspapers. There are… Read More