Woodland Park Zoo's Lisa Dabek, PhD, a senior conservation scientist with a young Matschie’s tree kangaroo at Wasaunon research camp in YUS. Dabek has been nominated for the 2023 Indianapolis Prize, the world's leading award for animal conservation. (photo by Jonathan Byers)

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Woodland Park Zoo's Conservation Scientist Nominated for World’s Leading Animal Conservation Award

Twenty-five years ago, Dabek traveled to the remote peninsula in Papua New Guinea in search of the elusive Matschie’s tree kangaroo