When I was a child, I used to fantasise about introducing a host of exciting exotic species to British farms. Why, I thought, cannot we ride zebras or tapirs, as well as horses? If you could domesticate the ancestors of cattle and sheep, why not all those other marvellous grazing species. A boring old ‘ordinary’ [...]
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Zoos’ role in domesticating wild species for agricultural use…?
March 30th, 2007Try TAIEX to pay for zoo to zoo travel and create partnerships
March 26th, 2007TAIEX is a very neat, and simple to use , little EU funding instrument that provides finance for study trips or seminars to allow professionals of a given organisation and disciplne to learn from colleagues in another EU State. It is all to do with supporting the application of EU legislation and spreading more general European [...]
What if you were starting a zoo from scratch, but had no money?
March 24th, 2007How might you persuade some external authority to provide some of the capital investment…?
And since we are going to change ‘the zoo’, we had better define the widest possible common denominator definition. So whatever else this new zoo might be, this is a public site allowing access to animal species maintained ‘ex situ’, okay..? It [...]
article on zoos and economic development
March 21st, 2007zoos-and-economic-development5.doc
What is Interreg? And how can nature sites & zoos in the EU get resource (i.e. money) from it?
March 21st, 2007Interreg is an EU funding instrument that brings together interests from within different regions ( = ‘Inter- reg’) of Europe who have a common problem or solution, and will up to 50% fund a project to address this. There are 3 strands A, B & C, each allowing different kinds of geographic partnership, and each [...]
Saying thank you
March 20th, 2007I know this must seem blindingly obvious, but…
An important part of external funding ( whether defined as fundraising or development) is simply remembering to properly acknowledge support once received.
I have heard of many cases where a gift or a grant or whatever has never been renewed, because the recipient has got so wrapped up in spending [...]
Has the time come for Goverment to see zoos as the way to talk to the public about sustainability..?
March 19th, 2007The environment”, someone once said “It is all around us…” .It certainly is all around us as a subject today. One can hardly pick up a paper, or turn on the TV without encountering ’sustainability’, ‘climate change’, ’sustainable technology’, etc…
Surely, the time has come for zoos, aquariums and large audience nature sites to become accepted as [...]
Bank robbing for zoos…?
March 17th, 2007Or, ‘Why not just ask for the money?’
Fundraisers are fond of a story about John Dillinger, who, when asked “Why he robbed banks…?“, replied “Because that is where the money is” (…except, it wasn’t Dillinger, but Willy Sutton, relatively unknown in Europe, ).
The point is that many fundraising programme ignore the possibility of just asking [...]
UK zoos and the 2012 Olympics: threat or opportunity? Should we be doing something?
March 15th, 2007Jump to Comments
Well the first question is about Lottery money, not that our community has been conspicously very successful in this area to date. There is much debate as to these funds, as well as Goverment monies and attention, being drained away to the Olympic theme and the relevant parts of London.
I remember there being [...]
What should zoos be called? How do organisations’ titles subtly affect external image and funding potential?
March 10th, 2007The word ‘zoo’ is a great word! It is short, exciting (makes you think of ‘zoom’…), visually and typographically distinct.
If an advertising copywriter were tasked to come up with a name for some new product from scratch ( …a kind of shampoo, a new form of insurance policy, a thing for getting stones out of [...]
