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
The society is not contemplating supporting it itself. That’s beyond the ability of a society to do so. Goldman Sachs has been generous in helping us get underway. The idea is to find ways it can be supported. Read More
You have been a champion of the adoptive park concept, why, speaking of that, why have zoos not picked up the challenge in more numbers?… Read More
Brings up an interesting point, so the society may be contemplating financial support for this reserve that they wanna give to the government?… Read More
May?… Read More
I would say in particular instances, absolutely they should. And we hadn’t land at the Wildlife Conservation Society before we received the Jason Islands (clears throat) from Michael and Judy Steinhardt who are New Yorkers. And, we still have some land down in the Caribbean, we have an island, Middle… Read More