Q: How did you come to dedicate yourself to saving the panda?
Lu Zhi: Initially I studied biology but I was attracted to eld work and wanted to work outside of the lab. As an undergrad, I began 1studying with a professor who was focused on pandas. The more I learned, the more I wanted to learn. And once I began to understand the danger they faced as a species – man’s destruction of their habitat – I just felt I had to do something. I wanted to take all the knowledge and training I’d built up and use it to bene t the environment.