COMET is a free, practitioner-focused repository of field-proven, cost-effective methods for monitoring conservation progress — grounded in both scientific and Indigenous ways of knowing.

<em>Conservation Science and Practice</em> journal publishes papers related to the science, policy, planning, and practical aspects of conserving biological diversity.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology's K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics received a catalytic $1.8 million grant from the Bezos Earth Fund to help address global biodiversity decline through...

Megan O’Rourke hopes to be a voice for science, also touts her blue-collar roots

Please join us for a 3 part speaker series held within the context of an art exhibition. Thought-provoking talks bringing together artists, scientists, and activists to interrogate myths of perpetual ...

As the ground under American science shifts in troubling and unpredictable ways, questions have arisen as to how philanthropies should respond. Having recently led a private foundation that supports s...

LOS ANGELES—Responding to escalating clashes between civilian activists and militarized immigration authorities, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass publicly urged protesters Monday not to give the Trump administration any pretext for what they’re already doing and will keep doing no matter what. “Angelenos—don’t engage in violence and give the administration an excuse to inflict all the […]

A new study identifies key regions across the U.S. where investments can deliver triple benefits for people, the climate and birds. These conservation sweet spots support significant numbers of more t...

Forested U.S. landscapes provide water, store carbon, and support threatened birds. Planning for these areas helps people and ecosystems.

YouTube video by Wildlife Conservation Society

As announced in Budget 2024, the scholarship and fellowship programs administered by the three federal research funding agencies – the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) – have been streamlined into a new harmonized talent program called the Canada Research Training Awards Suite (CRTAS) that will open for applications in summer 2025.

The infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

Using high-definition camera traps on trails in Congo’s Nouabalé-Ndoki national park, Will Burrard-Lucas, a photographer for the Wildlife Conservation Society, has captured Africa’s most elusive and r...

A Major Milestone for Biodiversity Mapping We passed a major milestone with today’s update to iNaturalist’s Computer Vision and Geomodel—100,000 modeled taxa! To mark this achievement, we’re excited t...

The aquaculture sector in the Amazon is an important source of food and livelihood provision; however, it is associated with environmental and ecological risks. This Review assesses aquaculture in the...

Bogs and swamps are a colossal carbon store but their continued destruction would blow climate change targets