25th Wildlife Conservation Award Winner Dr. Craig Packer - Cincinnati Zoo HD

For the last 25 years, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden has presented its Wildlife Conservation Award to one of its Barrows Conservation Lecture Series speakers. The 2017 award was presented on May 3 to Dr. Craig Packer, a distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior at the University of Minnesota, for his outstanding work with lions in the Serengeti. In Dr. Packer’s case, his passion for African lions and wildlife has shined a spotlight on animal population decline and its causes. He established a large-scale citizen-science project called Snapshot Serengeti that has inspired 130,000 people to help classify animals found in millions of images generated from hundreds of camera traps in Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. The classifications have been found to be 97% accurate and, therefore, have generated a useful database of animals and their activity in the region. Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/user/CincinnatiZooTube/featured Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cincinnatizoo/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/CincinnatiZoo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cincinnatizoo/ Find out more at http://www.cincinnatizoo.org