And shouldn’t have an elephant. So I think the more we can put into “nature” and NC2 conservation the better. But again, it’s a balance because you’re gonna have to show people and have something there that they can relate to. But do it right. You know, you don’t want… Read More
And how do we get from here to here and get people to buy into it?… Read More
Huge sums of money. Yep. Read More
Would this be better spent and sent to conservation of elephants, or what do you see are the issues and problems?… Read More
Again, it’s a balance between, you’ve gotta have…… Read More
Which was started, but I didn’t, I had to come back to it to see it open. That was very proud. Very proud, I mean at the time I wish I had done… That we had enough money to build the new Africa part and do something at the old… Read More
And what do you take out of what?… Read More
You have to make a decision. And in my mind I thought until people saw what the zoo could be, they weren’t gonna. Take a lot of money just to take bars out of, you know, this exhibit or to expand this and you had to see something brand brand… Read More
They didn’t see that connection yet. We couldn’t do it. So more of ours was in the education. I mean that’s why we felt so strongly with it. But we were part of breeding programs too. And developed those on the basis where we could. If that kind of answers… Read More
What was your proudest animal exhibit achievement?… Read More
The one that I actually saw finished was probably the lion exhibit. Because it was the transformation between bars to natural. Getting people to work together to make that happen. You know, that it wasn’t just oh we raised the money and then we built it. It was actually, I… Read More
The breeding or the… Or other activities that involve conservation. Okay. I think, again, it’s an individual thing. There are some zoos I would like, you know, in the perfect world it would be nice if all of your conservation would be you can protect things in the wild where… Read More
What you do affects them. I think. Some conservation things are just better suited for educational wise. Some for breeding obviously. Some are institute, but not everybody, like our zoo can’t… “Our zoo,” I’m not there anymore. At the time our zoo didn’t have a budget to put a lot… Read More
Because, and you’re dealing with a community that’s like why are you taking our tax dollars and putting it out there?… Read More
You talked about conservation and education. Read More
What do you think the role of conservation breeding in zoos relative to other types of conservation activities?… Read More
Is it the main focus?… Read More
He’d always sleep with his tongue hanging out and everybody knew Boomer, you know?… Read More
The kids that would come in for their trips. Oh, it’s Boomer! Well when we had to end up putting him down because of his age and some of the complications that he was having, it was very sad. But we tried – one of the saddest days of my… Read More
They offered to us, because neighbors, to let us put Boomer there. So we had an actual funeral basically. Did press release, invited people if they wanted to come, sent our thing to all our board members and we had a little service for Boomer. But I think those things…… Read More