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CONSERVATION The Chicago Zoological Society is committed to inspiring

conservation leadership, engaging our communities, and restoring
wildlife populations and people’s connections to nature.
None of these tasks can be completed on our own. Each fall, we gather at the
Conservation Leadership Awards Dinner to honor three great conservation leaders
whose work truly embodies our mission statement.

Joel Sartore was honored as the 2018 George B. Rabb
Conservation Medal winner. Sartore is the founder of
National Geographic’s Photo Ark, a project aimed at raising

awareness and finding solutions to some of the most
pressing issues affecting wildlife and their habitats.
Sartore’s goal with this project is to document every

species living in the world’s zoos and wildlife
sanctuaries. He hopes these images will inspire
conservation action through education. Since the
project’s launch more than a decade ago, Sartore has
visited 40 countries and has so far completed portraits
of more than 8,000 species.

Openlands, a nonprofit organization at the forefront of Emily and Robert King were awarded the Corwith
the urban conservation movement in the greater Chicago Hamill Lifetime Achievement Conservation Award.
region, received the Edith Rockefeller McCormick Through their partnership with the Society, they
Partnership Award. Since 1963, Openlands has focused established the King Conservation Science Scholars
on preserving our region’s natural treasures, helping com- program, which develops college and career-ready diverse
munities to become greener, advocating for open spaces, teens who are prepared to work at resolving environmental
and using nature to unite communities. and technological issues facing our country.

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