In North Carolina because of the size of the zoo, You have to have more of them simply because of the distances between exhibits, so things like restrooms, snack, you know, snack type food, places to sit many and particularly a larger zoo. It, that’s a bit of a challenge… Read More
Yeah, well we have I think a pretty good transport system in, in North Carolina. It was, it was and whip side the same. We, we also had road trams basically in Whipsnade. We have similar buses and road trams in, in the North Carolina Zoo, we’ve talked about overhead… Read More
What exhibit considerations did you have to take into account for visitors viewing species in a large space, and how was it achieved?… Read More
Do you feel your history of whip state helped you focus on a philosophy for the large acreage of North Carolina?… Read More
Yeah, I think it did. I mean I could, you know, in managing whipsnade, I mean particularly for the larger mammal species there, it, you know, it really drives into you the importance of space for those animals. But also, but also because the people appreciate animals in space. Now… Read More
So, which would never have been, never have happened in my time because, you know, because of all the reasons I’ve just said, but there’s 200 million, $200 million, three quarters of which is state money coming in for this new con Asia’s then, then gonna go into Australia and… Read More
It’s about 50 50 state and run run from income on the zoo site. So the state, as you can imagine, depending, depending on the state’s overall financial condition, we’ve, you always, as a director, and this is one, you know, it’s common to all directors, but particularly if they’re… Read More
How does the funding come to run the zoo?… Read More
Well, we are pretty prepared. I mean, being a highly tree site and much of our woodland is fairly mature, so it’s not always gonna be, you know, standing upright. In fact, we’ve had, you know, we’ve had several storms in my time, which have downed a lot of trees,… Read More
We do get the occasional minor earthquake. Never, never done any major damage winds can be quite strong at times there. But we have in, within the horticulture department, we also have a specialist tree team for people who do nothing else but look after the trees and shrubs. So… Read More
Not one at the time, but absolutely the right choice. Now How does the zoo prepare for natural weather disasters?… Read More
The, you know, because what we’ve been seeing is a lot of, a lot of development coming out of, particularly Raleigh and Charlotte. It’s happening now in the trial coming towards us. One of the reasons why, you know, I wanted to get all that extra land for, for the,… Read More
Four lane, four lane highways. Read More
So they had, they got the thousand acres without too much debate. The 500,000, the half million was a bit more difficult. But they did get it very, very determined. And so in, and I think also at government level, state government level, they, there was some good foresight in… Read More
So there was a, I think a lot of wise thinking that, well it may not be the obvious place right now, but you go a few years and it will be, and they were dead, right?… Read More
What are the advantages and the disadvantages?… Read More
Yeah, my, I mean when I first, that was one of the things I wondered when I first went, why Ashbury is right smack in the middle of the state. There’d been in the seventies, had been, you know, debate seventies into the early eighties about having a state zoo. Read More
How does that, you said you purchase art every year, are you, you have, We, and we encourage, and we, well different ways. We’ve had, we’ve had people, individuals and companies coming to us saying, you know, we’d like to sponsor a, a bronze at the giraffe exhibit. And not… Read More
And what, what they did interestingly was they shortened the team, the, the sort of arts team with, with other non-arts input, chose five and then put it out for public debate. And, and this, this particular, this particular model came back as being the one that they wanted. So… Read More
Do you have calls for art?… Read More