Creatures that are living, dying, reproducing every day. You’ve taken pieces of nature and brought it in to the heart of human populations. It’s important that you bring it into the, heart of these populations in a broader way into the human heart. If that is your vision, you have… Read More
We’re good. Ideally, a zoo director should be a naturalist at heart. He should also be a naturalist by training. That’s not always possible and it’s not enough. If you’re going to be a zoo director, you’re going to arrange for the care and the public use because it is… Read More
That puts a whole different aspect to what you’re doing. You need a vision. If you don’t have a vision of what could be done with a zoological garden, maybe you should do something else. You’re not trying to return the highest possible income to stockholders, you’re trying to return… Read More
Ideally, whoops there’s some noise. Check those windows. That was a weird thing, it never happened before. I haven’t heard any vehicles, so maybe it was just like one of those little– Okay, I guarantee– It’s quieter in the hotel room. Yeah. Read More
Okay?… Read More
Whether it’s your veterinarian, advising of some of the things that had happened in the past and are going to happen in the future unless you make certain changes. So, I guess those are all parts of it. And I’m sure there are wonderful secrets to being a good director. Read More
Could you speak a little more to that in the sense of vision, mission?… Read More
What made you a good zoo director?… Read More
If I am a good zoo director, I think it is because, I saw the zoo as part of a, process, part of an overall program in relation to the wildlife it exhibited. I did not look at it administratively as a castle as I have seen in some institutions. Read More
Now, why isn’t it happening with all of these institutions?… Read More
Don’t think I know the answer, but I suspect that finance is at the foundation. Read More
(indistinct) I don’t know. We sometimes see zoos in trouble around the world, wars and things like that, but it seems that the zoos in the United States with the exception of maybe one or two, have used resources to try and help those. is this helping zoos in trouble… Read More
Should zoos help others zoos that are in trouble?… Read More
Well, ideally they should. ideally good zoos should help poor zoos. I’m afraid that this happens very rarely. I don’t see it happening with art museums, with hospitals or with universities. Read More
That was the idea of that very interesting conservationists who just retired from the Minnesota zoo, the expert on tigers. Yes. That was Ron’s idea. And Ron and I talked it over and I felt it had a lot of potential, but WCS has not really explored that one. Read More
But why have not other zoos picked up on this?… Read More
We looked at land, a number of zoos did, we looked at land in Venezuela?… Read More
Good thing, we didn’t do that. Some land in west Africa and some land in New Guinea, and we discussed that option with the governments in each area. I think also we may have looked at a piece of land in Kenya. At the time we were not economically able… Read More
Is it financial? Is it still viable?… Read More
I think it’s very viable. And several years ago we explored it. Read More