“Women in science have come a long way since a National Geographic editor once called Jane Goodall ‘the blond girl studying apes,'” Conserve Wildlife Foundation of New Jerseynotes in a recent blog post. “That ‘girl,’ of course, went on to become a world-renowned researcher famous for her meticulous field studies of chimpanzees, (and) as a tireless advocate for the natural world.”

For the past 14 years, the nonprofit CWF has celebrated women who contribute to the protection ofthe state’s wildlife,…