Conservation Science

“It’s very sad if people are compelled to come to California, or anywhere, and remove a wild organism from its natural habitat, and they end up in jail,” Jensen said.

“There are hundreds of species known to be globally critically imperiled or imperiled in this country that have no protection under federal law and often no protection under state law,” said Healy Hamilton. These maps show the places in the U.S. most likely to have plants and animals at high risk of global extinction.

Maria Jesus has petitioned the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the California Fish and Game Commission to protect the rare Inyo rock daisy, currently imperiled by gold mining claims.

Cultural ecosystem services provide multiple benefits to people through material and non-material means. There have been few studies of CES in Vietnam, despite a number of traditions that have long influenced landscape values and management.

Christine Wilkinson contributed to the project, saying "we collectively realized that the wildlife-related syllabi in our department were lacking in literature and stories from diverse voices..."

“This is a problem with our relationship with nature, the idea that wild species are easily turned into commodities,” says Nick Jensen in the LA Daily News. “It’s, in a lot of ways, putting plants at risk for the gain of a small number of people”

Check out the books authored, edited or co-authored by Switzer Fellows in 2021 and dive into topics such as Indigenous teachings, the biology of climate change and sustainable urban planning.

Christine shares why hyenas get such a bad rap, her dream of a solar-powered camera-trap grid, and her work bringing together other African American scientists in mammalogy.

New research has found that hippo excrement turns the pools they occupy into extensions of the hippos’ guts, as bacteria and other microbes expelled into the water survive and are shared among the congregating animals.