Interview 27708 – Caption Index: 242
So you come back to the whole question of, well, is it, is it a euthanasia issue?… Read More
So you come back to the whole question of, well, is it, is it a euthanasia issue?… Read More
Well, it depends a bit on what the collection is. If it’s as it is in most cases of quite important species, species that are important to the, the main, the mainstream, the mainstream breeding programs, the mainstream reintroduction programs, whatever the purpose of that plan may be, then, then… Read More
Are they anything other than sort of egotistical, you know, I, I have such and such a collection and that’s, that’s why I have it. But if their, if their objectives with that collection are aligned with the public zoo, the, you know, the best of the public zoos, then… Read More
How do you deal with that collection?… Read More
Well, I think women Are no longer around. Yeah. Yeah. I mean that’s, that’s one of the, I mean I think there are two big issues here. Read More
One is that do they, what are their purposes in having those private collections?… Read More
What are your thoughts about private zoos owned by people of means?… Read More
Will they survive the length of time municipal zoos have when you have people who have great wealth and open up a zoo?… Read More
Are you concerned about zoos and aquarium staying viable and pertinent in the next 25 years?… Read More
What do you think, what direction do you think would help them stay relevant?… Read More
I think some zoos will remain viable. And now I’m, look, I’m looking at a sort of 30 to 50 year timeframe. What we’re going to see is a much greater understanding on the part of the public as to what zoos should be, and particularly in terms of welfare… Read More
Now these are the ones that are thinking clearly there’s obviously not gonna be, it never is going. The, the realism is that you are never going to move 5 million bucks from one exhibit into field exhibit. There’s, there’s recently a report come out done by born free of… Read More
It’s, that is a very debatable one, but it is an, it is an argument that can be made. Read More
You say what?… Read More
Good question. The, the, the reality is that the sources of money to build an exhibit, an expensive exhibit and the source of money to help in the field are usually from completely different people. So very often the people that are generating or finding the resources to build that… Read More
Well, to be honest, I’m IDI, there are many and younger ones coming on, I don’t know them, but there, there are certainly, from what I’m hearing, there are quite a number of young, younger, I’m talking now about late teens, twenties and thirties, something that, you know, that are… Read More
Obviously Jane Goodall is an example, Jacque au Do we have any now? Do we need them?… Read More
Do you feel we need, or do we have a charismatic and committed heroes to help shift public opinion for conservation?… Read More
And those, I think quite rightly, the, although most zoos that are breeding for good reasons, endangered species are continuing with that, we are now seeing a lot more resources put into the messaging and the field involvement of zoos in these, in these much wider issues and particularly within… Read More
Do you mean in terms of the emphasis put on it? Yes, yes. I don’t think it’s as important as it used to be. I mean, it start when zoos started talking about their role in conservation. Very often the conversation turned quite quickly to, oh, we are breeding such… Read More