And relay, what kind of conservation is involved, you know, habitat destruction in case of elephants, et cetera. They need aside national parks and the cent of wolves or whatever. So you got education, then you got scientific research and a lot of that research in zoos can be applied… Read More
And you define then research and field conservation is separate?… Read More
Because conservation to me is what the zoo does and it does five things. And so I always divide them. So when you ask me a question about conservation, we need to be more specific because I think everything zoos do is conservation. So if you look at the five… Read More
They may talk to you about frogs or elephant, but what is that?… Read More
But can they send people to Africa?… Read More
And before we go any longer, can I talk a little bit about conservation?… Read More
Maybe not, but they can, they can certainly do a, a number of things, again, in locally or internationally too. So I think they, and even even God, there’s one little zoo in Eureka, California, a very small zoo, but they still do a quarters for conservation programs. So they… Read More
They all should, you know, they all can be raise money for some of, like the Snow Leopard Trust or the Giraffe Conservation International or whatever. They can, they can be involved in that. But I think they can do a lot of hands-on things too that, but I think… Read More
Oh, there’s just so much they can do. I mean it’s, it’s incredible what some of the small zoos are doing. I know the little zoo in Central Florida’s involved in indigo snakes, they raise indigo snakes to release in the wild, the zoos. A couple zoos in Texas are… Read More
What do you feel, how do you, how can a small or a medium sized municipal zoo, what can they do today to be involved in wildlife conservation, either nationally or even internationally?… Read More
Can’t just be a businessman, I’m just running this. So it will run smoothly. You have, you have to have some interest in it. I would think. There are big zoos. There are small zoos. Read More
So, but I, yeah. What do you think now?… Read More
I think Mark’s probably half and half, you know, people who came like me through the ranks or were animal people and probably half business people. We’ve also, as you know, know in Lincoln Park in New York, we actually had in San Diego Partica, we’ve had some real failures… Read More
In your opinion, is it better to have a business person in charge of the zoo or someone who might be called a zoo man or woman who is knowledgeable about the animals?… Read More
If, if you have an issue with a humane organization, they shouldn’t be the one that goes and defends the zoo. They should bring their curator or their veterinarian there. Not that it, that they’re not, because that’s not their particular expertise. So if you have a businessman running the… Read More
Doesn’t matter. I mean, as you know, we’ve had great businessmen or business women come into the zoo. You, you know, Doug Myers at San Diego, Ron Foreman in, in New Orleans. You could go on and on. Eric Stevens in Miami. We’ve had some great people that came from… Read More
Zoo, okay. I, what is isis? What is zims?… Read More
Okay. ISIS was, I think now we can’t use that term obviously for reasons. It was the International Species Inventory System. I think ZIMS is zoo information, something or other. I don’t even know what it stands for, but it is, and, and there are, that’s not the only one. Read More
Would you explain what the Ackerman acronyms mean?… Read More
That’s, that’s part of the job. But I think maybe the bigger change is, and, and I think why zoo directors are asked to do so much more than they used to be asked is, you know, the fundraising efforts. ’cause the cost of running a zoos is so much,… Read More