Interview 9511 – Caption Index: 241
Does it continue to be a problem for zoos and aquariums?… Read More
Does it continue to be a problem for zoos and aquariums?… Read More
So what are the key roles that zoos must do to help conservation?… Read More
Is it strictly financial, educational, would their staff, or are there other key roles?… Read More
Well, there are many key roles that zoos can play in the struggle to save species. Building a constituency, getting people interested in wildlife is fundamental. Money is fundamental, properly directed. The provision of technical skills of people, extremely important and zoos can do it, sometimes in emergencies. For example,… Read More
Not yet. Probably nobody is doing enough for conservation to be called major. But there are a few institutions that are, my own institution gives more than 50% of its total budget to wildlife conservation. But the prospects are poor. The challenge is great. And there are enormous opportunities to… Read More
When you talk about this global strategy, are there countries outside the United States that could assist or partner with zoos globally, that would be the best use of the zoo’s resources regarding conservation. Does the World Bank play an issue here or other type of agencies like this. Many… 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