You open up the books, you let them go job done others soft releases, training, training them to avoid predators. You know, the, I was involved to a degree with the Vancouver Island Marmite reintroduction breeding for reintroduction project when I was working in, in British Columbia. And, and the… Read More
Is it easy to do some species?… Read More
I think those are the ones where, you know, we, we don’t have enough information, but even reintroducing small stuff, you know, can we do it?… Read More
I think the Russians have been doing some really interesting stuff with tigers that I don’t think has received the, the focus that it should, you know, reintroducing elephants or big carnivores or big primates, you know, the, the, the, the really complex ones. The ones that are more likely… Read More
What’s, you know, big dangerous animal like that. Read More
How, how do we approach that?… Read More
How, how, how do you reintroduce a polar bear?… Read More
If we get into that situation where, you know, we’re having to return the, the polar bears to a, a reconstituted a arctic, how do we do that?… Read More
Or they had no fear of snakes. So the researchers following the radio collar of a tamarind that’s already inside a red-tailed boa, we need to, with every reintroduction there’s species specific issues. So reintroducing animals that may not need to be reintroduced, but at least if we can learn… Read More
But the latter is, is more normally the example or once where, okay, let’s find out how do we do this?… Read More
What are the issues? Some examples?… Read More
What, you know, the, the classic problems with the golden lion tamarind reintroduction where they were kept initially in enclosures where all the perching was bolted down and when they were released in, in Brazil and they touched a branch that moved, it’s like, whoa, what’s that?… Read More
I think the issue is that the list is very short or certainly a lot shorter than it should be. I remember, you know, we, if we were, if we were into an argument with a an anti zoo person, there would, it was the classic, and this would be… Read More
And I think part of it’s cultural, but I think part of it has been, there’s been a real concerted effort to make sure that that is possible. Will it continue to be so, remains to be seen. But I think, I think India’s a really interesting example. Read More
How’s this, would you say zoos or requirements have been in achieving the reintroduction of species back into the wild?… Read More
That said, and now because I do quite a bit of work in India, I, I was sitting in an airport, I think it, it might have been Mumbai and waiting on a flight. I’m just looking out the window. And here we are in one of the most populous… Read More
I think, I think India isn’t, is is a really interesting example for other Asian countries and, and maybe, you know, west central African countries to look at and how have they squared the circle of people living in close proximity to big dangerous mammals?… Read More
So there’s all these skills that we have that we take to a degree we take for granted in the zoo community are increasingly applicable from managing what passes for wild places. Read More
Now How difficult do you think the future for Asian and African elephants in the wild is?… Read More
I think that for the African bush elephant, I think there are, because of the, the national parks, I think they’ll, they’ll be need to, they’ll need to be more manipulation of the animals. But I they will continue to exist in what passes for a wild state. I think… Read More