Interview 9511 – Caption Index: 233
Many zoos are helping conservation directly with technical skills, building constituencies, contributing money. Read More
Many zoos are helping conservation directly with technical skills, building constituencies, contributing money. Read More
is what they are doing major?… Read More
According to the studies of a landscape ecologist at the Bronx Zoo, 83% of the earth is now influenced by man. Most of the rests is snow ice and sand. I think, there isn’t much wild out there nowadays. Well, many zoos say they’re helping conservation and using money for… Read More
Is it just lip service in certain instances or is this conservation is issue so big that it’s unreasonable for zoos to think that they can help make a difference?… Read More
This is, still when we are already dealing with a situation where 90% of the world’s vertebrates are human beings and their domesticated animals, there’s a limit to what we can hope for. Read More
So is there a wild out there or is it just managed wildlife preserves that become wild zoos to coin a phrase or is there still some wild left that’s not under the protection or needs to be under the protection?… Read More
Is it just putting dollars somewhere?… Read More
Zoos can do quite a lot. In the first place, a great many species’ only chance is parks and reserves, and those parks and reserves are going to have to be managed intensively, for disease, for genetics, demographics and so on. In other words, they’re all going to become zoos. Read More
And unless he controls his population, one has to be pessimistic. Read More
What type of resources can zoos use to save the wild species from extinction?… Read More
The question is how many of these species can man save, or to put it a better way, how many can he avoid destroying?… Read More
I don’t think that’s a problem that zoos and aquariums can address. Although, Paul Ehrlich and Ed Wilson are right, in my opinion, they’re grossly understating. It’s gonna be much worse than that. A very large percentage of the species they’re talking about are invertebrates. That’s where the greatest number… Read More
There are according to some, as many as 100 million and others more reasonably suggests it might be nine million. We don’t have any idea. But whether, man, I don’t think this is a question we can apply to zoos alone. Read More
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