Yeah, And why I was at, even at my time, I was one of the few zoo directors who insisted in a morning round through the zoo, this was for me the only possibility to, to be in touch with animal keepers to speak every morning about problems of the… Read More
Yes. Of the collection?… Read More
When you were zoo director, was it important or how important do you think it is for the zoo director?… Read More
To make rounds?… Read More
Do zoos have sister zoo relationships?… Read More
Do other countries, do you have, I Mean each zoo has many relations to other zoos in Europe, mostly in Germany and other countries. But sister zoos in the sense of definition, I don’t know. Read More
Hmm. Well everything can be improved of course, and we can strengthen our efforts, but I’m quite sure that this development will go on and that more and more projects all over the world will be done. For instance, when I left the zoo 20 years ago, I, we had… Read More
But what gives you hope?… Read More
So when you talk about conservation, what worries you?… Read More
The labels where you explain, I mean the biology of the animal, but also the status in nature. And if there are breeding programs, release programs, so they take this up. The problem is if you walk through a zoo and want to read all these labels, it is a… Read More
Well, I think the most important part are the educational, what do we call it?… Read More
I don’t see any major difference. I’ve traveled much in the US and have seen many zoos and they do, they follow the same policy as in Europe and sometimes they were much ahead to the Europeans. We had to speed up to build up SSPs and EEPs, et cetera. Read More
What do you think has been the greatest, when we talk about visitors, the greatest areas of development in the way a zoo has interpreted their collection to the visitors?… Read More
What’s been the greatest area of developing that interpretation for the visitors coming to the zoo?… Read More
Meanwhile do, Do you think you are from Europe?… Read More
Do you think you can talk about what you believe are the major differences between zoos in North America and those in Europe?… Read More
This is a small monkey which you know, from South America. And this was, I think it was the first real good successful project of building up an self-sustaining population and release. And also this is a flagship species and the population down there now accepts, understands it that this… Read More
Well this is, if we are honest, a small number of species like Al, which was completely extinct in the wild and the population, self sustaining population in Europe and I think also in America has been built up. And since the eighties or the nineties we started to release… Read More
So a good segue in how successful then have zoos, aquariums been in achieving the reintroduction of species back to the, into the wild, how successful have zoos been?… Read More
So, and it is amazing that the zoos in Europe, in America started to breed Asian elephants and build up self-sustaining populations. And there will be the day, one day that we can bring elephants back to India for their very purposes. On the other hand, the Indians also start… Read More