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Conservation Futures Academy is reshaping global conservation efforts by fostering interconnected human-nature systems for a regenerative and thriving planet.
We work across knowledge systems with diverse local and global partners, communities and aspiring changemakers to restore kinship and reciprocity between people and nature.
Nature-positive economies starts with empowering conservation professionals to design and scale new solutions in their organizations and communities. Explore stackable credentials, professional certificates and executive programs designed for immediate, applied impact.
Working well with Indigenous communities takes more than good intentions. It requires a working understanding of Tribal sovereignty, an honest reckoning with the harms conservation has caused and the willingness to build partnerships on Indigenous terms. This eight-week cohort prepares conservation leaders to do that work.
A one-day convening for leaders across design, sourcing, conservation and investment, focused on the challenges, solutions and tradeoffs shaping nature-positive fashion. Dates for the next convening are being set.
In conservation, maps influence funding, land protection and policy decisions. This course prepares professionals to move beyond making maps to producing spatial analyses that are defensible, transparent and decision-ready.
Learn how innovative finance strategies are transforming the field of conservation. This course will teach you how to leverage financial markets using tools to build coalitions of funders and stakeholders to make ambitious conservation goals a reality. Discover how to build toward a future where economies and ecosystems thrive together and capital flows are tools for protecting the planet.
Discover how cutting-edge tools like AI, drones and GIS are reshaping the future of conservation. In just eight weeks, you’ll gain hands-on experience turning complex ecological data into powerful strategies that drive real impact in biodiversity protection and restoration.
The next generation of forest carbon projects must meet higher standards of credibility and impact. This course prepares practitioners to evaluate forest inventory data, make effective carbon estimates and design financially and environmentally sound projects.
Throughout the course, learners will build a Leadership Survival Kit tailored to a real-world conservation challenge of their choosing. The final presentation will demonstrate applied systems thinking, strategic planning, coalition-building and leadership communication — and serves as a professional portfolio piece to share with boards, funders and partners.
Conservation projects gather data on lands and communities, and how that data is governed decides whether a partnership is accountable or extractive. This course prepares conservation professionals to assess, design and redesign projects with Indigenous communities as governing partners.
As tourism rebounds and conservation funding pressures grow, the choices made today will shape ecosystems and communities for decades. This course equips practitioners to design tourism that protects nature, earns trust and remains financially viable.
Advance your leadership through a blended learning experience. Strengthen your strategic thinking, apply practical tools and translate emerging trends into actionable conservation strategies. Designed for mid-career conservation professionals ready to lead with impact.
Biomimicry is a powerful lens for addressing society’s challenges. Through the principles of nature-inspired design, this course introduces the tools and perspectives needed to find regenerative solutions at the systems level.
A conservation budget is a promise to a funder and a plan for a field team, and the two rarely stay aligned once the work begins. A conservation budget is a promise to a funder and a plan for a field team, and the two rarely stay aligned once the work begins. This course teaches you to build activity-based budgets that stay defensible when costs move, partners change and the multi-year picture shifts.
Most conservation work starts with a good idea and stalls on the practical questions. Who funds it.
Projects built for short-term outputs rarely hold.
When disaster strikes a conservation landscape, the difference between chaos and coordinated response often comes down to preparation. This course equips you with the skills to use practical mapping tools and design tabletop exercises to help effectively protect communities and ecosystems before, during and after disaster strikes.
Conservation work runs on resources, and raising them is a skill anyone can learn.
The proposal said one thing. The field says another.
Dual enrollment open to anyone: ASU college courses for high school students. $25 to start, pay $400 for credit only if you pass.
This course introduces learners to the role of data in understanding environmental systems and planetary health, including guiding conservation action. Through a combination of geospatial tools, remote sensing, field-based technologies, and emerging artificial intelligence approaches, learners explore how environmental datasets are collected, analyzed, and applied to real-world challenges.
Over 70% of our planet is covered in oceans, more than 80% of the world’s population lives within 50 miles of the coast, and fish products are a primary source of animal protein for approximately 40% of the world. We rely extensively on oceans, but this relationship is not always a healthy one. Our reliance often leads to conflicts between people and ocean resources including overfishing, loss of ocean biodiversity, marine pollution and coastal and marine habitat degradation.
Monitoring and evaluation is much more than ticking a funder’s checkbox. Learn how to meaningfully monitor, effectively evaluate, champion accountability and safeguarding, and learn from successes and failures to deliver impactful conservation.
What does it mean to be the change - not just to react to the world, but to actively create purpose in your life? In a time of rapid change - climate crisis, inequality, polarization, and technological disruption - learning to be the change is more important than ever.
Love animals? Worried about climate change? Curious how people around the world are protecting nature—and how you could be part of it? This course is your launchpad into the world of conservation through the lens of sustainability solutions.
In this course, you will explore the wide-ranging and important topic of sustainability, coming to understand why it is important in our communities, for our planet, and in your everyday life. You will engage with key themes of sustainability, like integrated systems, future-orientation, and justice, while examining how sustainability is connected to local and global challenges and industries across social, economic, and environmental dimensions.
