The 2023 cohort of the Young Ambassadors Program pose with Smithsonian Museum of the American Latino Director Jorge Zamanillo (far left.) Smithsonian Institution photo.
One of the largest trees on Barro Colorado Island in Panama. Tropical forests pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere where it causes global warming and store it as wood. But the amount of carbon stored varies depending on tree species, age, climate conditions and other factors. Verifiable estimates of carbon stored in forests are necessary to calculate carbon credits. (Photo by Steve Paton)
NMAI Repatriation Manager Jackie Swift, INPC Director Catalina Tello, Minister of Culture and Heritage María Elena Machuca, and US Ambassador Michael J. Fitzpatrick, with staff members of the NMAI, Ministry, INPC, and National Police of Ecuador that played an integral role in facilitating the repatriation process between the museum, government, and communities.
Photo Credit: National Institute of Cultural Patrimony
Afro-Cuban American musician Bobi Céspedes performed at the Folklife Festival in 2016 and returns for an evening concert Friday, July 7. Photo by Joe Furgal, Smithsonian Institution
After five days of public voting and just over 24,000 votes, the baby western lowland gorilla at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is named Zahra [ZAH-rah], which means “beautiful flower” in Swahili. (Photo by Becky Malinsky, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute)
Credit: Gouverneur Kemble Warren by an unidentified daguerreotypist. Half-plate daguerreotype with applied color,
c. 1850. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Purchase funded by the photography
acquisitions endowment by the Joseph L. and Emily K. Gidwitz Memorial Foundation
Caravan of camels moving across the edge of the Chalbi Desert in Marsabit County, Kenya. (Photo by James Hassell, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute).
Primate keepers—with help from the western lowland gorilla troop—revealed that the baby gorilla born May 27 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is female. Pictured are Calaya and her newborn as well as Moke and Mandara. (Photo by Jen Zoon, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute)
Left: Newborn gorilla cradled by mother Calaya, a 20-year-old female western lowland gorilla. She gave birth to her second offspring May 27 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. (Photo by Valerie Schultz, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute)
Right: Calaya, a 20-year-old female western lowland gorilla, gave birth to her second offspring May 27 at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.(Photo by Skip Brown, Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute)
The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, D.C., welcomed three meerkat pups to mother Sadie and father Frankie in the Small Mammal House.
Photo credit: Ann Gutowski, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
The team of scientists and interns who planted BiodiversiTREE in 2013, along with roughly 100 volunteers. From left: Susan Cook-Patton, Whitney Hoot, Caitlyn Cecil, Jess Shue, John Parker, Kim Holzer and Lada Klimesova. (Credit: Susan Cook-Patton)
Shelley Niro (Six Nations Reserve, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, Turtle Clan, b. 1954), “The Rebel,” 1987. Hand-tinted gelatin silver print. Collection of the artist.
