They were, they were really, you know, well there were amazing functions and really quite, you know, you were sort of up close and personal with many members of the royal family at those, they were, they were quite a meal as you can imagine in Buckingham Palace. So many,… Read More
Paul’s. And, and she was a big fan of the choir, the pickety of the choir, you know, the choir boy group. So we saw quite a lot of both the queen mother and, and the queen on most, mostly on formal occasions when someone was being buried. You know,… Read More
So yeah. So Is it true that as the London Zoo you would get calls from celebrities to look at their animals?… Read More
I don’t think either Charles or Camilla are, are involved with that. Camilla, we mentioned the Brooke earlier. Camilla is the, is the president of Brooke, the, the, the major, you know, there are three wings. Brooke has a, an organization has, the main organization is based in London. Then… Read More
Charles, not so much with the zoo world. He’s, as you know, Charles is very, very countryside oriented, very much interested in the sort of broader natural things that we’ve been talking about. And both, both the boys, both Prince William and Prince Harry have been very, very, very interested… Read More
So it’s, it’s a really, it’s the, as far as I know, I mean there are, you know, I know individual zoos have actually produced a lot of useful material, but it’s, it’s the only really comprehensive welfare oriented teaching program in the world that’s online to anyone, anyone who… Read More
Thank you. Are there any stories you can share about your interaction with the royal family?… Read More
Well it, it was always interesting, you know, being at London Zoo because there were strong con had been for years strong connections with the royal family. Many of them have a very genuine interest in, in wild thing wildlife. And in the countryside especially, you can imagine with the… Read More
But what it is, I think two and a, over two and a half thousand people have actually now gone through the, ’cause we, we ask them if they do take the course that they let us know and it’s, it’s, it’s well over 2000 people have done it all… Read More
And so we started what we call the e-learning program. And it has six parts to it. It’s a pretty comprehensive coverage in relatively simple language because we are dealing mostly this is the difference between what we are doing and the more sophisticated up to date science side of,… Read More
Absolutely, yes. I mean, what what we’ve found in the, in the p of actually getting into the field and working, you know, face to face with a lot of the folks that we’ve been training in mostly Southeast Asia and Brazil, Japan, one or two, one or two other,… Read More
That’s the sort of work that Brooke’s doing in, you know, almost all in these communities where people are lucky to earn a dollar a day if that While welfare is, is is kind of unique, but does it have any aspects of classes or things that people can look… Read More
And she bought the whole lot in the end over three year period. And then with money left over, founded this clinic, the Brook Hospital for Animals. And that, at the time that I was involved with them, was still, you know, it was quite a, quite a, a major… Read More
But the Brook, as I said, the Brook, the Brook was extremely valuable in getting into the welfare network. But what happened then was that I was asked after cutting the giraffes, toenails and a few other things, story in its own right. I was asked to join the then… Read More
But, so I haven’t had actually a lot to do, you know, other than, other than being part of the Brook operation and helping to found, I actually was chairman when we founded Brooke Pakistan, Brooke India and Brooke Jordan and Pakistan, India and Egypt and Ethiopia and now the… Read More
Is the brook involved with equine welfare within the zoo world?… Read More
There’s no, no, there’s no direct connection with the zoo world at all. I mean, it, it, it was just that, what happened then was that the, the brook in running a clinic in, let me go, go back a step. The founder, the founder of the Brook, Dorothy Brook,… Read More
And then in, in negotiation, in discussion, have sort of tweaked those standards. So they now have their own set of standards, which are not very different to, you know, other associations. So we’re getting to the, and there is an exit strategy with Brazil that in another two years… Read More
So a lot of it now involves training. A lot of it, when the Brazilian zoo, the Brazilian Zoo Association asks us to go in, they have 70 odd members. I think there’s about 150 zoos in Brazil, but half of them are part of the Brazilian Zoo Association. They… Read More
So does wild welfare then one aspect go into a zoo that needs help and rehabilitate exhibits, give them a collection plan, do they do that kind of thing?… Read More