Conservation Science

Friends of the Verde River was recognized as the 2022 winner of the statewide Resilience Prize for its collaborative, data-driven work to ensure the long term health of one of Arizona’s last free-flowing rivers. The annual prize, awarded by...

From the California Native Plant Society, one of the foremost native plant organizations in the world, comes Wildflowers of California, which showcases nearly one thousand of the Golden State’s most commonly encountered wildflowers.

Christine Wilkinson is part of a network of researchers working to yield “greater understanding, respect and protection” for this misunderstood African predator.

A massive citizen science project led by Kristy Deiner is seeking traces of life in the environment through a novel data collection tool: eDNA

“It started with a phone call.” Andrea Adams shared on X about the sudden change of plans for Anat Belasen’s postdoctoral research. The pandemic meant Belasen couldn’t do their planned field work on foothill yellow-legged frogs, so the team...

Participating in this workshop created by Switzer Fellows led to significantly more knowledge about and ability to prevent, intervene in, and report harassment and assault after taking the training compared to before.

This valentine’s day, Christine Wilkinson spoke with NPR’s Short Wave Podcast to celebrate queer animal love. The story was prompted by the discovery of two gay anteaters at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. NPR asked Christine if these high...

Martha Matsuoka’s new, open-access book shows how community-engaged research contributes to environmental justice by centering local knowledge, building truth from the ground up, producing data that can influence decisions, and transforming researchers’ relationships to communities for equity and mutual benefit.

"The city is saturated with coyotes—the packs that are there are largely the packs that will remain there… [human-coyote encounters are] something that we need to better plan for in the Bay area and also in California as a whole.”