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SAN DIEGO -- Longtime San Diego Zoo advocate Joan Embery and husband Duane Pillsbury will receive the top honor from San Diego Zoo Global -- its conservation medal, zoo supporters said Wednesday.
In her career as the zoo's goodwill and conservation ambassador, Embery made the zoo famous with frequent talk show appearances with Johnny Carson and, later, Jay Leno.
The couple keeps 30 rare and endangered animals and 40 horses at their Lakeside ranch, where they host frequent outreach events. While Embery is the public face of the zoo, Pillsbury works behind the scenes.
The medal will be given at an Aug. 11 luncheon.
At the same event, medals will be handed out in a “Young Conservation Advocate'' category to Luca Banks, a recent graduate of La Costa Canyon High School who volunteers with the San Diego Zoo Safari Park's Conservation Corps; Mason McGhee, a High Tech International senior who created a sport based on sustainability; and Nathan Tallman, a Poway High School graduate who developed a program for teaching middle school science students about the decline of amphibian populations.
San Diego Zoo Global was formerly known as the San Diego Zoological Society.
In her career as the zoo's goodwill and conservation ambassador, Embery made the zoo famous with frequent talk show appearances with Johnny Carson and, later, Jay Leno.
The couple keeps 30 rare and endangered animals and 40 horses at their Lakeside ranch, where they host frequent outreach events. While Embery is the public face of the zoo, Pillsbury works behind the scenes.
The medal will be given at an Aug. 11 luncheon.
At the same event, medals will be handed out in a “Young Conservation Advocate'' category to Luca Banks, a recent graduate of La Costa Canyon High School who volunteers with the San Diego Zoo Safari Park's Conservation Corps; Mason McGhee, a High Tech International senior who created a sport based on sustainability; and Nathan Tallman, a Poway High School graduate who developed a program for teaching middle school science students about the decline of amphibian populations.
San Diego Zoo Global was formerly known as the San Diego Zoological Society.
