They cannot afford it. There are school programs in Kenya, for instance, but the rest of the population, these national parks are visited by Europeans Americans, Japanese, Chinese nowadays, but not by the Africans because they cannot afford it. On the other hand, I must say there are very few… Read More
So that everybody in the world has the possibility to go to zoo to for, there’s this particular important for countries in let’s say Africa, who, how many people living in Africa have ever been to a national park?… Read More
What do you say to them?… Read More
Yes, more than ever. Why?… Read More
And when people ask you the question, do we still need zoos?… Read More
Yeah, single brewer. The night safari, one of my favorites, colognes was also very visible. I mean birth visiting. Read More
And who are they?… Read More
Well, this is all Orlando, of course the Disney world. Disney, what is called the animal kingdom. I was very much impressed to see the whole thing. And when it had opened, we traveled in the same year over Sylvester to Orlando and began the new year and of course… Read More
Are there any others around the world that you Like Particularly?… Read More
Well defined as a tiny Hagar, but he took up the, what you say, the motto of the New York Psychological Society, which was research, ad education and conservation. So in so far I adopted it also for myself. And I must say from all American zoos, I like most… Read More
Are there other zoos in the world that you particularly admire and why?… Read More
You have said that you, that the Bronx Zoo, in your opinion, defined what zoos are about. Read More
Can you tell me about what you meant?… Read More
But this was done very secretly, very smoothly. The public didn’t know about it. All of a sudden these animals were here and they came, the Thailand animals came with their, what do you say, keepers to present us these elephants. And they had a certain ceremony to say goodbye… Read More
It helped at oil, it happened at night and we just observed it silently from the balcony to the birth of the elephant. This was wonderful. Since then, I think 10 or 12, I forgot the number elephants have born here. So this was the most success, successful marine program… Read More
The first four elephants we got came from Emmen, which is a small city with a wonderful large zoo. And this was a family group, two males and two offsprings. This were the force. And they came from a zoo which kept the elephants hands off or ProTrac contact. And… Read More
To begin with planning, designing the exhibit we had, we had to make a pan european com competition and there we had 1500 proposals of people who just knew were is the end and was the head of the elephant, no idea of Jews. They just applied. And in the… Read More
Yes. Can you talk about its evolution from your beginning idea about the exhibition of elephants and trying to now make it a reality and the difficulty in picking a design and all the things that you as director had to go through to bring it to completion?… Read More
Well, the one I wanted to do in the end was the Hippo Aquarium, which my successor was successful with. Read More
And what would you say during your time was your proudest accomplishment?… Read More