The dodo. The pink-headed duck, and wherever that can happen, it is almost certain to create interest and develop conservation. But we’re at the point now where we need to recreate habitat. There’ve been so many areas that have been so badly damaged that nothing would live in them unless… Read More
Stanford biologist, Paul Ehrlich, and his Harvard colleague, E.O. Wilson have calculated that one quarter of all species on earth will be lost in 50 years if tropical forests continue to be stripped at the current rate, what consumers and aquariums hope to do to fight against this prediction?… Read More
And there are now several good references, which enable you to look at them. The last time I looked at the bird reintroductions there had been 1,720 reintroductions of wild birds. I was astonished. The group in New Zealand has been particularly successful. Not that they’re all that many species,… Read More
Can you imagine anybody turning down the opportunity to re-introduce the Carolina parakeet or the passenger pigeon?… Read More
Aside from the condor, are there some other stories that you can relate that you feel are important ones of reintroduction?… Read More
reintroduction is fascinating conservation technique and process. The reintroduction efforts are becoming and more successful, but places where you can reintroduce wild animals are becoming fewer and fewer, obviously. The vast majority of bird of prey reintroductions have been successful. But a few years ago, one would have to say… Read More
Implementing the species survival plan was most difficult. A wonderful group of colleagues got behind it and help get it through. There are some elements of the plan which are just doggone difficult. If you’re going to move a rhino from zoo A to zoo B, because you don’t want… Read More
So in the beginning, it just wasn’t simplistic. It was very difficult. How successful have zoos been in achieving the, you’ve talked about it a little, the reintroduction of species back into the wild, zoos, many times placed that high on their list of how good they are with conservation… Read More
How difficult was the species survival plan to implement for zoos and aquariums when you first envisioned it, proposed it?… Read More
Did everyone buy into the program?… Read More
Why would the selection of whether you choose a rhino or a frog affect carrying capacity?… Read More
For the simple reason that a rhino requires a lot of space on a frog doesn’t. So if you have a lot of rhinos are big animals, you can have fewer individuals and fewer species. On the other hand, if you concentrate on small animals, you can keep more species… Read More
And so on and so on. So the nature of conservation demography, which I was not smart enough to represent it that way, because that would have been a very fancy word, which would made everybody very happy, came across to those I was speaking with as the result of… Read More
You talked about the Species Survival Program, and the animals they choose, has the selection criteria to decide which animals species become part of the survival program, met with what you envisioned?… Read More
Not yet. The selection of species for the Species Survival Program, the SSP is critical. Why? It determines carrying capacity. Read More
There is a fascinating lesson, and one that’s easy to understand that I have conveyed taking the groups through the Bronx Zoo and found immediate comprehension and then application, application in that those I was talking to said, well, what does that mean for large populations of deer in New… Read More
What does it mean for, (clears throat) too many snow geese in some areas of Canada?… Read More
Why?… Read More
Because if compressed by poaching, by failure of protection, into a single area, they eventually destroy it. They eat it to death, they trampled it to death like people. So they have to be able to move as they did before they were compressed by human populations, agriculture and other… Read More
Would it be in, you’ve spoken to the construction of more detailed exhibits, would that be an area that would bring home more of the conservation aspect?… Read More