{"id":658756,"date":"2026-08-27T17:11:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=658756"},"modified":"2026-08-27T17:11:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T17:11:57","slug":"welcome-to-the-woke-zoo-dei-gender-equity-and-climate-activism-infiltrate-smithsonian-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=658756","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the woke zoo: DEI, \u2018gender equity\u2019 and climate activism infiltrate Smithsonian"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Fox News has discovered that the Smithsonian National Zoo has become just as bizarrely \u201cwoke\u201d and weird as the rest of the institution.<\/p>\n

The Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, as it\u2019s called, is obsessed with DEI and climate change, according to the Fox News<\/a> investigation.\u00a0The proof can be found on the zoo\u2019s own website.<\/p>\n

\u201cGender equity, civil liberties and justice are necessary ingredients for peace and prosperity, but they also have a direct impact on resource use and climate change,\u201d a ridiculous 2021 article<\/a> on the website reads.<\/p>\n

Written by leftist seabird ecologist Autumn-Lynn Harrison and coral biologist Mary Hagedorn, the article continues by arguing that \u201cone direct way we can bolster climate action is by addressing inequities in health and education across the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Fox News searched the website for all instances of the term \u201cclimate change,\u201d it discovered damn near 400 results.<\/p>\n

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What does \u201cgender equity, civil liberties and justice\u201d have to do with resource use and climate change?<\/p>\n

Not even the Smithsonian zoo animals were spared the DEI crap. pic.twitter.com\/gvVLzVvcdy<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Kentucky Girl (@Kentuckygirl1) August 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The zoo is also obsessed with DEI, which is short for diversity, equity, and inclusion. It\u2019s a twisted political ideology that centers on rectifying the sins of past discrimination against certain minorities (mainly blacks) by applying modern discrimination against certain groups (mainly whites).<\/p>\n

\u201cDiversity and inclusion are integral to all aspects of the Smithsonian Institution\u2019s operations and key components of the Smithsonian Strategic Plan,\u201d a Smithsonian report cited by Fox News reads.<\/p>\n

The report also outlined several prominent DEI programs that are being pursued at the Smithsonian National Zoo, including \u201cdiversity-focused internships, LGBTQ family programming, \u2026 and efforts to promote inclusive language in the zoo and aquarium profession.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another 2021 magazine article cited by Fox News touted the zoo\u2019s decision to launch the absurd Association of Minority Zoo and Aquarium Professionals for the purpose of increasing \u201cracial and ethnic minority representation\u201d in zoos.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs the curator of large carnivores at the Smithsonian\u2019s National Zoo and a black man in the zoo field, I have long been keenly aware of the dearth of black and brown faces in my chosen field,\u201d the silly article read.<\/p>\n

The zoo is also obsessed with reaching out to gay people. According to Fox News, it uses its annual International Family Equality Day \u201cto conduct outreach to the LGBTQ community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cZoo staff have [even] created rainbow-themed animal enrichment and treats, including colorful ice cakes, for animals throughout the park,\u201d the network noted.<\/p>\n

During the 2024 International Family Equality Day, the zoo took things further by having a \u201cGay Day at the Zoo\u201d gathering that \u201cincluded a performance by the LGBTQ-and-allied GenOUT Youth Chorus, a community picnic with local LGBTQ organizations and music that highlighted queer identity and inclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jason Hayes of the Heritage Foundation\u2019s Center for Energy, Climate and Environment doesn\u2019t care for any of this crap.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn places like the National Zoo, especially a taxpayer-funded organization like the National Zoo, zoos have a primary mission of conservation and species management, habitat management, that kind of thing,\u201d he told Fox News.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen ideologies, or at least science that is in question, start to take over and really rule the management of an organization like the zoo, then you start to have problems,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

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FIRST ON FOX: The Smithsonian\u2019s National Zoo has been pushing DEI and climate change messaging on millions of taxpayer-funded visitors, a Fox News Digital review found \u2014 hosting LGBTQ programming outside groups called \u201cGay Day at the Zoo,\u201d launching diversity-focused internships,\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/HRjRdUkcwB<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) August 27, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The good news is that in January of 2025, the Smithsonian announced the elimination of the Office of Diversity to comply with the Trump administration\u2019s directive against DEI.<\/p>\n

The problem is that \u201cseveral work profiles listed on the zoo\u2019s website as of this week still contain language suggesting DEI is part of their daily activities,\u201d according to Fox News.<\/p>\n

In addition, the zoo\u2019s\u00a0Great Plains Science Program website \u201ccurrently lists \u2018Inclusion\u2019 among its core values, pledging to create pathways for people from underrepresented groups to participate in its work and cultivate a new generation of conservationists.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fox News has discovered that the Smithsonian National Zoo has become just as bizarrely \u201cwoke\u201d and weird as the rest of the institution. The Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, as it\u2019s called, is obsessed with DEI and climate change, according to the Fox News investigation.\u00a0The proof can be found on the zoo\u2019s own… Continue reading Welcome to the woke zoo: DEI, \u2018gender equity\u2019 and climate activism infiltrate Smithsonian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":658747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/658747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}