Dr. Jennifer Yu is one of Conservation Nation’s 2025 Conservationist Grant recipients. Her interest in wildlife conservation was first sparked by volunteering at a local zoo in high school and reinforced by working in a fish physiology research laboratory, in wildlife rehabilitation, and by conducting raptor nesting surveys as an undergraduate student. After obtaining her veterinary and master’s degrees, she gained clinical experience in wildlife rehabilitation medicine, and research experience through an internship with the Global Health Program at Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. This has led to opportunities to participate in international conservation and One Health projects like a baboon field project in Kenya, pangolin veterinary research in Vietnam, and a livestock infectious disease surveillance in Chad to identify potential risks to sympatric antelope.
Jennifer Yu
- Conservation Nation
Elephant Camps in Myanmar: Bago, Taungoo, Thayarwady, Pathein, Taunggyi, and Naypyitaw
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