Well, as I I mentioned just now, I think, I think certainly being more aware of the outside world and the other institutions that they could partner with, that that’s certainly one thing that they should be doing. Clearly they’ve got to try and address their, their audience, which means… Read More
Yes. What major direction must zoos be taking?… Read More
What issues would you like to see zoos address in the future?… Read More
So that’s, that’s one, one concern is building those relationships with, with other people. Read More
Sorry, can you, can we just give, can you just repeat that question?… Read More
So the, and and, and of course in addition to, in in, in, within all those concerns, you’ve got one or two of the things we’ve just touched on, which is the, what will public attitude be to zoos in the future?… Read More
So in the future, what issues would you like to see Zoos address Much more partnership with other outside in partnership, obviously with other zoos where it’s appropriate, but I’ve been a strong believer in, in zoo directors, making sure that they’re also involved in, in the governance or in… Read More
Will it change, will it, you know, will it, will it improve with the way that zoos communicate what they’re doing to their audiences?… Read More
Oh yeah, yeah. Well I, I mean the big one is for, from, in my experience anyway has, has been financial in trying to make sure that you’ve always got the resources both to maintain and to build new exhibits. So that’s, that’s one concern. Another one is actually governance. Read More
There needs to be a great deal of improvement in, in governance and that means often training those people in, in better governance. And then other things are more or less, we touched on a little earlier, is finding people to manage our institution, to manage our zoos that have… Read More
What issues caused you the most concern during your career and how do you see the future regarding those same concerns?… Read More
Sorry, those same, What issues caused you the most concern during your career and how do you see the future regarding those same concerns you might had?… Read More
It’s not, it’s not in the numbers who are pro or against the zoo world. Read More
Hmm, I, I don’t think attitudes visitors have, have not changed in the proportions who are interested in support the zoo world versus those who are to one degree or another not happy about zoos. We talked about those extremists, there are a few of those, but it, they have… Read More
And then I made the huge mistake of moving to manage people. Big mistake for some people. And, and I think there’s a lot still in folks who don’t actually want to take that extra step, whether it’s from keeper, curator or curator up to up to zoo director. Read More
What changes have you seen during your years in the zoo field regarding visitor attitudes?… Read More
And very often what I’ve found, some of those younger folks initially don’t want to be until you start giving them or training them in ways that they build up a, a much broader ability to manage not just animal, the animal management is relatively simple. It’s the human management,… Read More
Well, I’m, I’m a little bit out of the current situation having, you know, been retired a few years ago, but I think it’s always been an issue as to, you know, are there, are there folks we’re talking here about animal curators, I presume there are always, there’s always… Read More
And I think if you approach it like that and, and not just discard these folks, I mean that’s what’s happened a lot in the zoo world over the years. I think it’s better now in terms of building those relationships. But in the past there was a tendency to… Read More
Do you think that’s a problem?… Read More