John Regan Associates - External funding for zoos, botanical gardens & aquaria

A bit of a self indulgent post this one, as it this is ultimately just about bringing together two of my personal interests. One of my greatest disappointments though at Chester revolved around a potential anthology of science fiction stories to raise money for Asian Elephant conservation. I was delighted when leading UK Stephen Baxter  ) [...]

books-on-zoos.doc  Here is such a list  (rather thrown together due to time pressure). Some of these are guide books to zoos around the world, some look at the history of the zoo world, some at our general role in society. Certain of these latter of course , especially published a while back, take an equivocal [...]

A bit of a self indulgent post this morning, as it this is ultimately just about bringing together two of my personal interests. One of my greatest disappointments though at Chester revolved around a potential anthology of science fiction stories to raise money for Asian Elephant conservation. I was delighted when leading UK Stephen Baxter  ) [...]

books-on-zoos.doc  Here is such a list  (rather thrown together due to time pressure). Some of these are guide books to zoos around the world, some look at the history of the zoo world, some at our general role in society. Certain of these latter of course , especially published a while back, take an equivocal [...]

This is a map of the USA compiled by interest believing in teaching evolution as a scientific fact in schools ( which I assume embraces most of us in the zoo world)/ I believe it was first published in Scientific American http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2007/04/03/97-%e2%80%93-where-and-how-evolution-is-taught-in-the-us/

Well, actually, I hate the word ‘sustainability’.  And I hate ‘biodiversity’.  And  I hate ‘environmentalism’.  And ‘ecology’.  I am not very keen on ‘conservation’  for that matter. But ‘sustainability’ is down there as the absolute worst. It is a clunky, ugly, pretentious, polysyllabic ,agglutinative invention. totally lacking in any compelling emotion or ‘gut feel’   What is it [...]