I think the answers to those problems are enormously exciting. And I think we know how to do it. One of the answers is that all of the animals we work with in specialized collection should be animals that require or would profit from propagation. And the propagation of those… Read More
We need to show how their lives work. We need to show the meaning of ecology. We need to show how it relates to people. I don’t think there’s any problem. If one, for example were to devote a zoo to let’s say, let’s say a, 100 species and 75… Read More
How does a small or medium sized zoo become specialized?… Read More
How can it still projected enough diversity and excitement to bring in visitors?… Read More
And if it was just one animal or a group of animals from an ecosystem, how would that affect that small zoo?… Read More
Do you think they still have, or could you project the visitorship or how it would allow them to continue to be relevant to their community?… Read More
We talked about specialized zoos, the smaller zoos, the mid-size zoos, what exactly do you mean by the specialization?… Read More
What form would it take?… Read More
When I build my $45 million elephant exhibit– When you build it– with some of the money?… Read More
Should some of it be going– It should be going to the preservation of elephants in the various, and there are many organizations working on the problem, including WCS, the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo that has one of the better programs and they can help you with… Read More
And visitors could touch, could look through the maps, decide whether they wanted to buy shoes and radios for wardens or help purchase a new piece of land to enlarge a park or whatever and touch it and the money would go there. And that was in 1999, June of… Read More
No, no. Read More
We won’t win, we won’t save to the elephant, Can the zoo in Sheboygan contribute to that problem in Africa or Ceylon, Sri Lanka nowadays?… Read More
I think they can, but only if they do it right and do it beyond most of what has been done. The Leipzig Zoo has just opened a huge magnificent exhibit, not for elephants, it’s called Gondwanaland. It costs 66 million euros. That’s real money, and they are trying to… Read More
I believe that zoo as a group should be involved in the elephant battle, the tiger battle, many of them are. AZA institution alone had over 3000 conservation projects underway last year, but the amount of money involved is small potatoes, it’s gotta be more. There’s a zoo in Boise… Read More
What can we do in the field?… Read More
I happen to be a trustee of a foundation that is contributing an awful lot of money to elephant conservation. And mostly what we’re doing is trying to stop the poaching. But we have to go further than that. If the communities of human beings, which are either poaching the… Read More
The problems are immense in preserving elephants, many other creatures, but especially with elephants, I suppose it’s only fair that a big animal causes a big problem. But elephants are very special. Now in a zoo, an elephant is marvelous thing. One of the earliest experiences I ever had with… Read More
It’s a wonderful, wonderful animal. Mostly, lousily exhibited, poorly exhibited like putting a Rembrandt in the shade or behind the chair. I think that elephants have the power in zoos, if exhibited with a great deal of thought, a lot of really interesting creative imagination to not only excite people,… Read More
How are they going to spend it?… Read More