I know this is a bit of a cliche, but I think a, a new generation, a younger or two, two generations under one a generation that’s now young parents and a teenage generation, folks that are now in that sort of age group that are much more interested in… Read More
So you’re beginning, you know, within say just take the energy industry for example, you’re beginning to see not so much from the really big players and particularly from the fossil fuel guys, but you are seeing a lot more interest from the smaller players because of the pressure they’re… Read More
Regarding conservation, what worries you and what gives you hope?… Read More
I i, I dunno, where have I put something down somewhere?… Read More
You did, I didn’t write it down David. I’m sure we could find a later. Read More
Do you, you say I talk about Four keys of conservation?… Read More
Hmm. Not sure what you mean by that or what the question, what the question is. Read More
But it, it’s a, you know, North Carolina where we, we are lucky enough to have a quite sizable design and building department, which is also responsible for the interpretives and they will have had a constant challenge of trying to keep up with particularly anything, anything electronic. You talk… Read More
Can you talk about them as it affects wildlife?… Read More
And I know no amount of that sort of interpretive is going to, you know, is going to be optimum in terms of making sure that people understand what is, who’s trying to do what an exhibit’s trying to tell them. It’s a real challenge. Did you find that your… Read More
It’s an ongoing, it’s an ongoing science really as to, as to how to do it well, particularly if it’s, you know, if you’ve got the people who can actually provide that service, the person to person service, that’s great. But, but obviously a lot of institutions either can’t afford… Read More
But at the end of the day, and, and we are coming back round to that now, I think at the end of the day, and usually it’s gotta be volunteers, there’s no absolutely no substitute for a live person, person to person that is far more effective than, than… Read More
Do you think zoos have solved that problem of interpretation?… Read More
Well, you know, in a way, successful interpretation has, has rather gone round, full circle years back. The best way always was having a living human being, preferably a member of staff or, or a docent interpreting an exhibit live to somebody. But of course, because that’s expensive on time,… Read More
What has been the greatest area of development in the way zoos have interpreted their collection to visitors?… Read More
Well, I’m, I’m not a big expert on, on the species survival program. I mean, I’m, I’m aware it’s there and some of the species that that that we’ve been, that I’ve been involved in both, both in London and and over and and North Carolina, as far as I’m… Read More
Well not just zoo breeding, but other, you mentioned private breeders, in this case a government breeder bring breeding animals together in a consorted effort to put them back in the wild. But the main, the main examples have been with small, small animals, birds, a lot of birds, the… Read More
Yeah, actually pretty good. And, and this is, this is one of the, one of the things the sort of anti anti zoo lobby keeps going on about is that, well, there’s been very few of these circumstances. I think the thing is that most, most of the really successful… Read More
Has the selection criteria to decide which animal species become part of the program met with what you envisioned?… Read More
At one time, certainly in my early days in the zoo, oh, if you had a gorilla it never went anywhere else. You, you know, you had to, you know, there was no sort of no no getting together. That’s obviously changed dramatically over, over the last 30 to 40… Read More