Interview 34507 – Caption Index: 410
Do visitors, are there ways that one can engage visitors to help conservation to give when they’re at the zoo to give money?… Read More
Do visitors, are there ways that one can engage visitors to help conservation to give when they’re at the zoo to give money?… Read More
And they do more. You can never, there’s no finish line in conservation. So, you know, you’re never gonna get to the point where we’ve done enough. Read More
Well, money always comes up as well. Conservation’s a nice to have if we have it in the budget. And most zoos do not budget for conservation. They ask for donations. You have to use your earned revenue that you make from the gate and sales. You have to put… Read More
There are some, there are many issues, but are, is there one or two or major issues that you’d like zoos to address in the future?… Read More
It, it’s a great idea. And, and it, the reason it didn’t work, and Conway, bill Conway called it extractive reserves. You know, we, we, we can, the zoo can also support kind of a, a, a park or, or a habitat in the wild that’s kind of a, a… Read More
But I think money and leadership is what is what challenged it. But it’s a great idea and it should. And there are some zoos, little Boise Zoo had a great in Idaho, had a great program with Steve Burns when he was there with, with the park in, in… Read More
Oh, there’s a kill. Oh, I, I don’t think I wanna see that. Okay, but that’s Africa then. So I don’t think, I think they’re alienated from nature and they, and then they have the benefit of, of having a return of lifestyle that a lot of people don’t. So,… Read More
You know, if you’ve got a family in Africa and your kids are starving and there’s one wildebeests left, you’re gonna shoot the wildebeests. ’cause you have no alternative. You gotta give people alternative. That’s why ecotourism is important, you know, that’s why we go over there too, so that… Read More
It’s really good. I said, yeah, but they do a lot of things that are not good, especially where your son’s working, you know, as a profession. And so she didn’t give to PETA anymore. But, but again, there’s a lot of, there’s a lot of common common tenets of,… Read More
And, and so does conservation to some, I mean, animal welfare conservation is animal welfare in the wild, kind of, you know, if you want to look at it that way. But I think that 90, 95% of animal rights, people believe in what, what we believe in. You know,… Read More
Yeah. Animal welfare and animal rights are, they overlap a lot, right?… Read More
I’ve been on safaris with people, oh, you wanna see you?… Read More
I, I became a little bit more animal rightsy. I’m not, not, I’m not a, you know, animal rights will talk about, you know, that, that’s more of a philosophical belief. But I, you know, I I really thought I developed much more of a, a, of a full understanding… Read More
What’s your opinion about the balance of animal rights?… Read More
Well, instead Of and welfare and animal Welfare. Read More
Well, we’ve touched on a few of them, but let, let me start with the evolution of Rick, because zoos changed my life dramatically. I started as, oh man, this is great. I’m running behind these rhinos, slapping ’em on the butt, you know, to get ’em inside. We did… Read More
Now it’s a passion of, you know, helping the animals, realizing that those animals that we’re seeing in zoos are doing okay in good zoos, but they’re counterparts in the wild. God. It’s, it’s tough out there, especially Africa where I go a lot. So I changed in, in terms… Read More
It depends on the person. I think you need a combination. I think it, it can, it can reinforce the message or it can substitute, it can replace the message, which is not a good thing. So the, the balance of artificial intelligence that we’re coming up with and the… Read More
What issues caused you the most concern during your career and how do you see the future regarding those concerns?… Read More
You’re preempting some good questions here. I’m making you jump around too. No, you are. That’s okay. We’re gonna cover that. What, what issues though, and you had a long career within the, the zoo profession. Read More