One of the challenges now is that the supply in African tourism is not keeping up with the demand. So whereas when I’ve been taking groups to Africa now for, oh gosh, 40 years probably, or certainly all the time I was in north, in North Carolina, the North Carolina… Read More
So, ’cause often these lodges of course may be managed locally, but they’re often financed and run by somebody else. And that may link back to somebody outside Africa who has a financial interest. So the, the key now in African tourism is to find the places which have not… Read More
How important do you feel tourism in Africa is to protect species long term?… Read More
Vital, absolutely vital. I have a son who actually is at the only one of my three boys who’s followed broadly, you know, my, my area of interest. And he actually is working currently with a number of countries in Africa where the tourism aspect has not been developed that,… Read More
So you’re beginning, you know, within say just take the energy industry for example, you’re beginning to see not so much from the really big players and particularly from the fossil fuel guys, but you are seeing a lot more interest from the smaller players because of the pressure they’re… Read More
I know this is a bit of a cliche, but I think a, a new generation, a younger or two, two generations under one a generation that’s now young parents and a teenage generation, folks that are now in that sort of age group that are much more interested in… Read More
And EDF is largely concerned with, with things like climate change, with energy, with water quality, not so much with species as such. And what we’re seeing now, and EDF just as one example, well Wildlife fund as well, others Nature Conservancy and so on now have not five, they’re… Read More
Regarding conservation, what worries you and what gives you hope?… Read More
I i, I dunno, where have I put something down somewhere?… Read More
You did, I didn’t write it down David. I’m sure we could find a later. Read More
Do you, you say I talk about Four keys of conservation?… Read More
Hmm. Not sure what you mean by that or what the question, what the question is. Read More
Can you talk about them as it affects wildlife?… Read More
But it, it’s a, you know, North Carolina where we, we are lucky enough to have a quite sizable design and building department, which is also responsible for the interpretives and they will have had a constant challenge of trying to keep up with particularly anything, anything electronic. You talk… Read More
It’s an ongoing, it’s an ongoing science really as to, as to how to do it well, particularly if it’s, you know, if you’ve got the people who can actually provide that service, the person to person service, that’s great. But, but obviously a lot of institutions either can’t afford… Read More
And I know no amount of that sort of interpretive is going to, you know, is going to be optimum in terms of making sure that people understand what is, who’s trying to do what an exhibit’s trying to tell them. It’s a real challenge. Did you find that your… Read More
Do you think zoos have solved that problem of interpretation?… Read More
But at the end of the day, and, and we are coming back round to that now, I think at the end of the day, and usually it’s gotta be volunteers, there’s no absolutely no substitute for a live person, person to person that is far more effective than, than… Read More
Well, you know, in a way, successful interpretation has, has rather gone round, full circle years back. The best way always was having a living human being, preferably a member of staff or, or a docent interpreting an exhibit live to somebody. But of course, because that’s expensive on time,… Read More
What has been the greatest area of development in the way zoos have interpreted their collection to visitors?… Read More