A Conversation with Jonathan Wilcken, Former Director of the Auckland Zoo
@ Auckland Zoo Jonathan Wilcken started his career at the London Zoo. “It was an instinctive choice,” he recalled. “I was living in London and frankly had come to the end of a series of jobs I was just doing to earn money to travel around Europe. I thought I needed something more meaningful.” Wilcken had a sense he could find that through working with animals, which led him to the zoo. “It was not a particularly thought out decision but I found zoos incredibly fascinating, re