Implementing the species survival plan was most difficult. A wonderful group of colleagues got behind it and help get it through. There are some elements of the plan which are just doggone difficult. If you’re going to move a rhino from zoo A to zoo B, because you don’t want… Read More
So in the beginning, it just wasn’t simplistic. It was very difficult. How successful have zoos been in achieving the, you’ve talked about it a little, the reintroduction of species back into the wild, zoos, many times placed that high on their list of how good they are with conservation… Read More
How difficult was the species survival plan to implement for zoos and aquariums when you first envisioned it, proposed it?… Read More
Did everyone buy into the program?… Read More
Why would the selection of whether you choose a rhino or a frog affect carrying capacity?… Read More
For the simple reason that a rhino requires a lot of space on a frog doesn’t. So if you have a lot of rhinos are big animals, you can have fewer individuals and fewer species. On the other hand, if you concentrate on small animals, you can keep more species… Read More
And so on and so on. So the nature of conservation demography, which I was not smart enough to represent it that way, because that would have been a very fancy word, which would made everybody very happy, came across to those I was speaking with as the result of… Read More
You talked about the Species Survival Program, and the animals they choose, has the selection criteria to decide which animals species become part of the survival program, met with what you envisioned?… Read More
Not yet. The selection of species for the Species Survival Program, the SSP is critical. Why? It determines carrying capacity. Read More
There is a fascinating lesson, and one that’s easy to understand that I have conveyed taking the groups through the Bronx Zoo and found immediate comprehension and then application, application in that those I was talking to said, well, what does that mean for large populations of deer in New… Read More
What does it mean for, (clears throat) too many snow geese in some areas of Canada?… Read More
Why?… Read More
Because if compressed by poaching, by failure of protection, into a single area, they eventually destroy it. They eat it to death, they trampled it to death like people. So they have to be able to move as they did before they were compressed by human populations, agriculture and other… Read More
Would it be in, you’ve spoken to the construction of more detailed exhibits, would that be an area that would bring home more of the conservation aspect?… Read More
Some zoo exhibits have been developed now, as I think all should be eventually with conservation is the main message. They include, the life history of the animal community on exhibit as effected by human beings. It is when you talk about the effects of human beings on wild animals… Read More
I don’t think I know the answer to that question. Read More
I think zoos and education or a natural marriage. Read More
What has been the greatest areas of development in the way zoos have interpreted their collections to their visitors?… Read More
We’ve talked about education and conservation, has education made any headway and educated the public in the difference between the wellbeing of creature and the survival of a species?… Read More
There have been a great many surveys, most of which indicate that zoos do make a difference. We specifically at the wildlife conservation society in New York’s Bronx Zoo undertook a survey to see what the new Congo exhibit had done. I was not only gratified, I was downright hornswoggled. Read More