Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 238
One is that do they, what are their purposes in having those private collections?… Read More
One is that do they, what are their purposes in having those private collections?… Read More
Will they survive the length of time municipal zoos have when you have people who have great wealth and open up a zoo?… Read More
What are your thoughts about private zoos owned by people of means?… Read More
What do you think, what direction do you think would help them stay relevant?… Read More
I think some zoos will remain viable. And now I’m, look, I’m looking at a sort of 30 to 50 year timeframe. What we’re going to see is a much greater understanding on the part of the public as to what zoos should be, and particularly in terms of welfare… Read More
Are you concerned about zoos and aquarium staying viable and pertinent in the next 25 years?… Read More
Now these are the ones that are thinking clearly there’s obviously not gonna be, it never is going. The, the realism is that you are never going to move 5 million bucks from one exhibit into field exhibit. There’s, there’s recently a report come out done by born free of… Read More
It’s, that is a very debatable one, but it is an, it is an argument that can be made. Read More
You say what?… Read More
Good question. The, the, the reality is that the sources of money to build an exhibit, an expensive exhibit and the source of money to help in the field are usually from completely different people. So very often the people that are generating or finding the resources to build that… Read More
Obviously Jane Goodall is an example, Jacque au Do we have any now? Do we need them?… Read More
Well, to be honest, I’m IDI, there are many and younger ones coming on, I don’t know them, but there, there are certainly, from what I’m hearing, there are quite a number of young, younger, I’m talking now about late teens, twenties and thirties, something that, you know, that are… Read More
And those, I think quite rightly, the, although most zoos that are breeding for good reasons, endangered species are continuing with that, we are now seeing a lot more resources put into the messaging and the field involvement of zoos in these, in these much wider issues and particularly within… Read More
Do you feel we need, or do we have a charismatic and committed heroes to help shift public opinion for conservation?… Read More
Do you mean in terms of the emphasis put on it? Yes, yes. I don’t think it’s as important as it used to be. I mean, it start when zoos started talking about their role in conservation. Very often the conversation turned quite quickly to, oh, we are breeding such… Read More
What would you say is the role of conservation breeding in zoos relative to other conservation activities?… Read More
There’s no way you can’t fumble it. You can’t sort of get around it by all sorts of lame excuses that, oh, I, you know, I we we will find them another home. It’s, it’s absolutely critical that if, if there is nowhere good for those animals to go, then… Read More
The problem comes when you, you know, coming to other, say other who, you know, not, not the elephants are, but for large ungulates, large hoofstock, large herbivores where space is very limited. Again, coming back to our conversation about private ownership, very often a lot of those surplus animals… Read More
So how should zoos deal with surplus animals?… Read More
And therefore, you know, they have to ask the question, well, is that really the best thing for that animal in terms of quality of life?… Read More