Oh, I think when I started, 90% of zoo directors were men and were either vets or zoologists. There were a couple of odd balls like Hancocks who was an architect. I think there’s one priest, couple of other maybe horticulturalists here or there. And then you had really the… Read More
And so the people can pull the wool over his eyes, left, right, and center, and he kind of just has to accept it ’cause he doesn’t know, he’s non-technical guy. And so I think you’re losing a huge amount of creativity because an animal guy can tell animal people,… Read More
I’m not sure about aquariums ’cause I don’t really know much about aquariums. But zoos, well I think it shouldn’t, but it obviously is. I suppose zoos need to make some conscious efforts to get to places where there’s more space. Obviously, very, very much easier said than done. And… Read More
They don’t have much deer, antelopes. They opened a exhibit six, seven years ago called Microbial, which is basically a whole museum for live microbes, bacteria, yeast, fungus. And they have like 10, 20, 30 live specimens, tidy grades, things like that. And that makes a lot of sense because… Read More
What would you say is the skillset that a zoo director needs today as compared to when you started?… Read More
Is it with elephants, this with gorillas, this is with chimpanzees?… Read More
I think I’ll go for the gorillas ’cause that’s what I’ve been looking at.” But I mean, you’re making them make choices with their own money. I think those are good things. And I’m surprised and very saddened that they stopped doing it. Read More
Does space continue to be a problem for zoos and aquariums?… Read More
I think as time goes by, zoos will will get more involved in situ conservation. I think the rage right now is to have a sister national park, which you sponsor where you’ve got educational, where you’ve got research programs going on in your supporting research programs in the wild… Read More
And now it’s you just pay a donation to get in and they decide where to put it, which I think you just lost the whole plot there because I think that… I mean, I think that was a very good way of getting people to sort of make… You… Read More
And what’s this program?… Read More
I don’t know, really. As I said, I think it comes back to zoo education is probably more effective in a classroom, zoo classroom situation where you’re actually teaching the student about the animals themselves. Once you start moving education out into the zoo itself, I think interpretation is a… Read More
Is the conservation issue so big that it’s unreasonable request to ask of zoos?… Read More
Can the new technology, do you believe assisted promoting zoos, Twitter, Facebook draw attention to wildlife?… Read More
Yeah, I think so. Yeah, sure. And as Twitter or X gets replaced by modern social media, I think one has to just keep keep with it and stay very in tuned with… Zoo should stay in tuned with always to get messages out to the general public. Read More
Has student education you think made any headway in educating the public and the differences between the wellbeing of a creature and the survival of a species?… Read More
Why are you keeping them?… Read More
Why don’t you send them to a place which has 500 hectares if you’re gonna keep them in captivity?… Read More
And you have to because there are lots of elephants which need to go into sanctuaries like bears in the wild. And you’ve got many, many bear sanctuaries in Southeast Asia, China, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, taking care of bears that have been in the bile industry, just putting them out… Read More
I don’t know. I suppose eventually you’ve got the Asian elephant, you’ve got the African elephants. I think WAZA is putting a lot of pressure on zoos not to keep elephants. I suppose the zoos that have already got them up, keeping them and eventually may get out of them. Read More