Community
BENEFITS TO LOCAL COMMUNITIES
COMMUNITY
BICE serves animals and their conservation, primarily, while serving the public in the form of advanced education, recreation, awareness, and opportunity for the responsibility and community pride of stewardship.
Teaching respect for animals, BICE pays utmost respect to the animals’ well-being by not conflating animals with playing the role of ‘entertainment for humans’. BICE Institutes are stewards of its animals, plants and fossils primarily, and places of public recreation, secondarily.
When designing exhibits, planning collections, writing up signage, giving presentations etc., BICE seeks to educate the public on an academic level, akin to living museums. Running a zoo, aquarium, museum or similar institution, can be like a politician trying to cater to too many demands of varied constituencies while losing sight of their purpose of serving. Along with the animals themselves, BICE considers its ‘base/constituency’ to be natural scientists and scholars, both amateur and professional.
BICE facilities endeavor to: Over-serve their base by elevating the visitor experience to an academic level. We value education over entertainment, linking knowledge in the public’s awareness of even the smallest and most obscure species with its larger, more important biologic role in the ecosystem.
Challenging cities to a higher and more meaningful purpose, BICE will offer members of the community (individuals and families alike) the opportunity and pride of engaging with fellow citizens in the very important work of saving a specific taxonomic group through participation, cooperation, and teamwork.
Activities such as “Appreciation Nights” will provide the entire community an opportunity to interact and familiarize with their local citizenship services and government officials in an informal, relaxed, positive forum.
