Conservationists, including two George Mason University alumni working at Smithsonian and a current student, are part of the team working to ensure red pandas move off the endangered list at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) and the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation (SMSC). Jessica Kordell (on right), an animal keeper at Smithsonian since 2007, helped hand-raise Moonlight when she was a cub, and continues to provide care for SCBI’s red pandas and clouded leopards. The Mason alumna who earned her master’s in environmental science and policy in 2017 also mentors undergraduate practicum students attending SMSC. On left, Monika Conrad, an environmental science and policy graduate student, has been conducting behavioral research on the red pandas, including Moonlight and her cub, at SCBI and the National Zoo as part of her master’s program since April 2018. photo by Evan Cantwell/George Mason University
George Mason University alum Jilian Fazio, a research fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute outside a clouded leopard exhibit, where one of two new cubs on display is named Jilian after her. Fazio also works as the Species Survival Plan Coordinator and International Studbook Keeper. Photo by Lathan Goumas/Office of Communications and Marketing Photo Taken:Thursday, October 17, 2019
Conservationists, including two George Mason University alumni working at Smithsonian and a current student, are part of the team working to ensure red pandas move off the endangered list at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) and the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation (SMSC). photo by Evan Cantwell/George Mason University
