My role is on the steering committee, and I help raise money for that group. I’m also on the advisory board where we have quarterly calls to talk of about the next steps. Now, CPSG has just changed their acronym. It used to be CBSG. And the reason it’s CP… Read More
But CPSG now is going to sort of facilitate their processes to try and get people connected and then get home-range countries to buy into the projects and go there and get them done quicker instead of this long, drawn-out, 40-year idea that conservation will finally work in Namibia or… Read More
Can you talk about your role in the CPSG Strategies Committee with the Conservation Planning Specialist Group?… Read More
Well, I’m most proud of the beginning of this Rising Tide project, that one we talked about earlier, raising marine ornamental fish. But I think some of the ones, I’m trying to think of the actual name of it, it’s in Ethiopia and it has to do with sustainable, actually… Read More
What did the conservation fund fund, the development of the stoves?… Read More
The development of the stoves and the development of actually how they would start manufacturing the dung to briquettes. And it was done by a young couple out of Denver, Colorado, of all places. And I guess the third one, if I’m gonna keep it at that, is the work… Read More
The zoo and aquarium people can’t do this. We let them in the door and they screwed it up.” But I think that’s an important project. I think some of the Caribbean islands ought to start coalescing now. They’ve just been ruined by hurricanes, but they should coalesce a little… Read More
Can you name a couple of projects that have been funded by the conservation fund that you’re most proud of?… Read More
And how do they make a difference?… Read More
Because I think a lot of people will say, “Well, I’m gonna save the Tennis Shoe Club, so I’m gonna send money there because it sounds right.” Well, 90% of it goes to somebody’s salary and somebody’s car and 10% of it is going to save something. So I don’t… Read More
Well, speaking of projects, what are, in your opinion, the top marine mammal conservation projects that need to be done?… Read More
Well, I think I mentioned already the vaquita process. I think it’s too late. I think the intervention is too late. Read More
They don’t even know if there’s 30 or 50 animals left, but what I don’t wanna have happen is that, if the zoo and aquarium field has mobilized, they’ve raised money, they got the Mexican and the American, everyone’s agreeing to do it, they’re taking the Navy dolphins down into… Read More
Or is that necessarily the role that they wanna play?… Read More
Meaning does 20% go to conservation and 80% goes to something else?… Read More
You know, where’s the happy medium, I guess?… Read More
On the conservation side, you talked about the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund, did you find that hard to sell the idea?… Read More
Or you had indicated that you talked about it a little, but was it a hard sell or what’s- Well it was a hard sell to the company, ’cause the company was a private company. Well, that’s not true, necessarily. Anheuser-Busch is a public company, but I think the wording… Read More
But I think a lot of people don’t realize, and I don’t know the statistics exactly, but when you give money to certain NGOs, a large percentage of it is because they have a beautiful office in Washington DC and a lot of people working for them, meaning, now, is… Read More
You know, I think I’m not a fan of the news, or the media because they don’t seem to wanna do their homework and look up some of the other issues, some of the other sides of a discussion, some on side of a debate. They just sort of take… Read More