Agency history, 1958-2021

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Subject

  • Conservation Nation
  • National Zoological Park (U.S.)

Category

Agency History

Notes

  • This is an agency history. It does not describe actual records. The Smithsonian Institution Archives uses these histories as brief accounts of the origin, development, and functions of an office or administrative unit to set that unit in its historical context. To find information on record holdings, please double-click the highlighted field "Creator/Author", which will open on a brief view of relevant records.
  • Friends of the National Zoo, http://www.fonz.org/faq/mission.htm, June 30, 2000
  • "National Zoo to split with longtime partner FONZ," by Michael E. Ruane, February 4, 2021, Washington Post, https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/zoo--ends-fonz-partnership/2021/02/04/99331cf0-6637-11eb-8c64-9595888caa15_story.html, accessed February 1, 2023
  • Conservation Nation, Our History, https://conservationnation.org/about-us/our-history/, accessed February 1, 2023
  • Founded in 1958, the Friends of the National Zoo is a non-profit organization intended to provide support for the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park in Washington, DC. This support takes many forms and includes making grants to fund zoo projects and staff research, facilitating corporate partnerships and other outside underwriting, operating park concessions, and promoting training and education on issues of importance to the Zoo and it audiences. In 2021, due to financial strain caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Zoological Park and the Friends of the National Zoo made the decision to part ways. At this point the Friends of the National Zoo ceased to exist and it became Conservation Nation, an organization who's mission is to preserve the planet by cultivating an inclusive and resilient wildlife conservation movement.
  • For a history of the larger creating unit, refer to "Forms part of " above.

Repository Loc.

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520

Date

  • 1958
  • 1958-2021

Topic

  • Zoos
  • COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-
  • Habitat conservation
  • Wildlife
  • Wildlife conservation

Form/Genre

Mixed archival materials

Local number

SIA AH00236

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