Interview 20028 – Caption Index: 331
The Adopt-a-Park concept seems like a natural for zoos to assist the wild. Read More
The Adopt-a-Park concept seems like a natural for zoos to assist the wild. Read More
Why have zoos not picked up on the challenge in more numbers?… Read More
It was so frustrating, so frustrating. These things have to be taken on a case by case basis. Well, you mentioned it. Read More
Is there a wild out there, or have the majority of wild spaces been turned into managed wild zoos?… Read More
A little bit of both. I tell people that, to my knowledge, I don’t think there is a black rhinoceros in Africa that’s wild. They’re all being followed 24/7 by rangers armed with infrared, night vision binoculars, and rifles too, or they’d be dead within 24 hours from poaching. And… Read More
What are some of their stories, and was Riverbanks involved in this?… Read More
Probably one of the first efforts that really succeeded we were involved in, so were a lot of other zoos, and that was reintroducing the golden lion tamarin back in Brazil. That program was one of the early programs that really succeeded. Scimitar-horned oryx, Przewalski’s horses, California condors. But that’s… Read More
It’s a real challenge. It’s a real challenge. And it takes a lot of money, a lot of effort. You have to have host countries, host governments committed to making it happen. That has not always been the case. One of the programs that we were intimately involved in with… Read More
They’re going to be managed to extinction, those smaller institutions. Read More
How successful have zoos been in achieving the reintroduction of species back into the wild?… Read More
Why did zoos not implement a major elephant national breeding program?… Read More
I think there are a number of reasons for that, and I think actually now, and again, I’ve been out of the profession for five years, but I think we’re kind of moving in that direction. I go back to the whole debate, argument, whatever you want to call it,… Read More
I think you’re going to see… I don’t know. You might not see 10 zoos 20 years from now that have elephants. And they might not even be in the zoo. They might be on a breeding facility 20 miles outside of town. I don’t know where that’s going. That’s… Read More
Within the zoo profession?… Read More
Sadly none come to mind. I think the closest we got to that, and this would be a very controversial statement on my part, would be Jack Hanna. People loved Jack Hanna. And it didn’t matter whether he knew the difference between a reticulated giraffe and a Masai giraffe. He… Read More
And I mean, you’re talking about two people over a period of 60 or 70 years that had that kind of connection with the public on a national level. Read More
I don’t know that it would have been possible, impossible, or possible, excuse me, to do anything differently. ‘Cause I was reacting like a lot of zoo directors, especially in the ’70s and ’80s to outside changes and outside forces. It was hard to pick a direction and stick with… Read More
Do we need, or do we have any charismatic and committed heroes to help shift public opinion for conservation?… Read More
Examples like Jane Goodall, Jacques Cousteau, et cetera. Read More
I probably would not have driven my car down the road to those railroad tracks. (laughs) You know, zoos are very interesting organizations. I don’t… Maybe some museums or the museum profession could sort of, kind of be remotely compared to zoos, but zoos are unique. One of the things… Read More