Well, here when at North Carolina, one of the things when I first went there was the idea of having a major interpretive center, both the conservation center combined with a, a, an interpretive center showing the globe, you know, broader global issues at a time when there was still… Read More
Are you’ve seen many zoos throughout your career, are there any zoos in the world you particularly admire?… Read More
Are there any programs or exhibits you would’ve implemented during your tenure that didn’t happen?… Read More
Well, again, going back to London, I certainly would’ve, would’ve moved if we’d had the resources to have fewer, better exhibits at London and then pushed a lot of those resources into whips. That’s one thing here in North Carolina. I would, I’m trying to think, sorry, can you, can… Read More
Are there programs or, or exhibits that you would’ve implemented that during your tenure that didn’t happen?… Read More
Not a lot. That sounds a bit sort of arrogant, you know, it sounds as if, well, you know, everything I did was fine. It was a wonderful life. I wouldn’t change anything from a personal point of view and I wouldn’t, I wouldn’t have missed a moment of it. Read More
The temptation of that sort of, you know, rather, rather overrode the, what I would probably have done if I’d stayed at London. So that was, that was certainly one, you know, one regret. But I don’t, I don’t have any major, I, there are not many things that I… Read More
If you could go back in time, what, if anything, would you have done differently?… Read More
Well, I think one of the ways of getting or audiences outside the zoo world to really understand what the, what the zoo world is trying to do is for not just directors, but also senior staff members within the zoo community to find a way to get involved with… Read More
You’ve had a long and storied career. Read More
What does that mean and has it been done often or not?… Read More
But even, you know, what I find go going around the state that even people that have never been to that zoo since childhood are very aware of it. And, and there is a sense of pride from what they hear that this is, this place is unusual and it’s… Read More
Well, I think in the early days there was, you know, because the state had no, no u unlike most others, the, there was a huge sense and still is a huge sense of pride in, you know, in this zoo, you know, this is our zoo. And that has… Read More
There’s Twitter, there’s Facebook remote cameras to draw attention to wildlife. Is that the upcoming thing or is it just part of Of broader Yeah, it’s part, it’s part of a, a broader sort of portfolio of, of, of information. I use the word deliberately information rather than education. Education… Read More
And did you get the community, what were your strategies to get the community to embrace the North Carolina Zoo?… Read More
So yeah, they’re, they’re very valuable, but they’re not a complete, you know, I think it’s a mistake imagining that, you know, if you’ve got screens everywhere, and of course we are all using screens for various informational purposes, but that if you’ve got screens everywhere that somehow is gonna… Read More
How can, how do you feel new technology can assist in promoting zoos?… Read More
But you can imagine what all the millionaire neighbors sitting in houses overlooking Regions Park thought about that. So there was, and, and, and then of course you had this, this, this other problem of having so many buildings that were the first in the zoo. Well, so you had… Read More
’cause we, you know, we, we not so meant much at the moment, but we had a very good guy in the marketing department who was a very good presenter. And so he and I and other staff used to do, you know, regular TV programs talking about what we… Read More
The the zoo, if you, it’s actually divided into three parts. The zoos, you’ve got a road running through the middle of it, the the outer circle re spot, and a canal running through another part. So you’ve actually got three bits. The canal is, is very popular from a… Read More