They could have ignored me. They didn’t. And so I stood up and I immediately said, right, I’m Douglas Richardson, I’m curator of mammals at London Zoo and all the cameras just immediately sit drowned. And, and I just caught them off guard. And I said, look, there was, there’s,… Read More
Correct. Okay. Dealing with them is, for me is almost as much fun as having sex. Many years ago when I was working at London, there was a very important or very high profile anti zoo group who were launching a video and there was clips of London Zoo on… Read More
I mean, if you’re, if you’re talking about groups that are and are in particular anti zoo, would that be correct?… Read More
Can you talk a little, can you talk about animal welfare groups in Europe and their relationship with zoos?… Read More
Can you give us your thoughts on that?… Read More
I don’t think we do. So the emphasis I think has to be on threatened species and you can still have a representative collection, but everything will have a, a conservation emphasis. Read More
Do we need another African plains exhibit with common African stock on it?… Read More
They, I mean, do we need another meercat exhibit?… Read More
What kind of collection should those small and medium zoos try and achieve In this day and age with the state of the planet?… Read More
I don’t think any collection, no matter how big, medium or small it may be, I don’t think they really can afford not to have a collection whose major emphasis is on highly threatened species. Be they as part of insurance populations, be it as part breeding for reintroduction or… Read More
Should it be regional endangered species, more typical collection of the endangered or non endangered species?… Read More
Well you talked about finances and, and considering financial resources available to the small or the medium sized zoos, what do you think should be the focus of those kinds of collections?… Read More
Everyone can afford to have say a commitment towards an invertebrate no matter what size your zoo. Read More
You know, you need the commitment, you need to be able to raise the money to attend meetings or make a contribution to a center in Vietnam or wherever it might be. And being able to, and everybody’s gonna have access to, there’s gonna be local people with money that… Read More
And so, you know, being involved with you, something like, you know, pangolin conservation in Vietnam is okay, right?… Read More
There? I mean this is a, this is a, a subject that comes up quite often and, you know, for, for smaller zoos being okay, how, you know, there’s no way I can be a zoological society of London or, you know, WCS or San Diego. They just don’t have… Read More
What do you think a small or a medium size municipal zoo could do today to be involved in wildlife conservation, either on a national level or possibly internationally?… Read More
I mean, zoos have become much more complex organisms, and I mean, particularly when one is looking at it from a, not so much a UK perspective, but say a North American or a continental European perspective where your zoo is funded by local government, one doesn’t necessarily, you certainly… Read More
What skillset do you think a zoo director needs today as compared to when you started?… Read More
But at a very senior level. I’ve seen a couple of good ones. I’ve seen a lot of bad ones. There are many zoos. They’re small, medium. Read More