Course catalog

Nature has already solved many of the problems organizations are working on. This course introduces biomimicry as a design method and applies it at the systems level, where regenerative solutions take hold.

In conservation, maps influence funding, land protection and policy decisions. This course prepares practitioners to move beyond making maps to producing spatial analysis that is defensible, transparent and ready for decisions.

Climate crisis, inequality, polarization and technological disruption ask more of people than reaction. This course explores what it means to create purpose and act deliberately in a time of rapid change.

A conservation budget is a promise to a funder and a plan for a field team, and the two rarely stay aligned. Learn to build activity-based budgets that hold up when costs and partners change.

Conservation goals need capital, and the mechanisms that move it are changing fast. This course covers how nature finance is structured and how to translate conservation impact into terms investors can act on.

Six months, two residencies and one real challenge from your organization. The ASU Conservation Futures Academy Executive Fellowship brings together a curated group of senior conservation leaders to work on the decisions their organizations face right now.

AI, drones and GIS are changing what conservation teams can see and prove. This course gives practitioners hands-on experience turning complex ecological data into strategies for biodiversity protection and restoration.

Four courses that follow one conservation project through its whole life, from design through budget, delivery and evaluation. Taught by practitioners from Conservation International who do this work.

Projects built for short-term outputs rarely hold. This course teaches you to design initiatives that reach root causes and align ecological priorities with what communities on the ground actually face.

When disaster reaches a conservation landscape, the response depends on preparation. This course covers practical mapping tools and tabletop exercise design to protect communities and ecosystems before, during and after.

Environmental data shapes what we know about planetary health and what conservation can act on. This course covers geospatial tools, remote sensing, field technologies and emerging AI approaches, applied to real challenges.

The next generation of forest carbon projects has to meet higher standards of credibility. This course prepares practitioners to evaluate forest inventory data, make defensible carbon estimates and judge whether a project is sound.

This course gives conservation professionals a practical foundation in using AI responsibly, from understanding large language models and writing effective prompts to applying AI in communications, research, fundraising, and program management. It was developed in collaboration with AI for Earth, an initiative of Climate Collective and Dev Design.

Conservation work runs on resources, and raising them is a skill anyone can learn. This course covers donor strategy, proposals and the practical mechanics of funding a conservation program.

The core course of the Global Conservation Leadership certificate. Over eight weeks you build a Leadership Survival Kit against a real challenge you choose, and finish with a portfolio piece for boards and funders.

Landscape-scale conservation crosses borders, sectors and communities. Through case studies from Kenya and South Africa, this course builds the skills to work across complex landscapes and engage the people who live in them.

Working well with Indigenous communities takes more than good intentions. This eight-week cohort covers Tribal sovereignty, the harms conservation has caused and how to build partnerships on Indigenous terms.

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 professionals to redesign projects with Indigenous communities as governing partners.

A course for Indigenous Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean, developed with Nia Tero. Eight weeks on Indigenous rights, United Nations mechanisms and territorial governance, offered in English and Spanish.

An entry point into conservation for anyone curious about how people protect nature. This course introduces the field through the lens of sustainability solutions, with no prior background needed.

Sustainability connects local and global challenges across social, economic and environmental dimensions. This course covers its key themes, including integrated systems, future orientation and justice, and why they matter in everyday life.

The proposal said one thing and the field says another. Across five modules tied to a simulated project, you learn to diagnose risk across the lifecycle and finish with a plan you can apply.

Monitoring and evaluation is more than ticking a funder's checkbox. This course covers how to monitor meaningfully, evaluate effectively and learn from both successes and failures to deliver conservation that lasts.

Nature affects supply chains, operations, investment decisions and long-term business performance. This course gives leaders a practical way to identify where their organizations depend on and affect nature, assess the risks and opportunities those relationships create and bring that information into business decisions.

A one-day convening for leaders across design, sourcing, conservation and investment, focused on the challenges, solutions and trade-offs shaping nature-positive fashion. Dates for the next convening are being set.

As tourism grows and conservation funding tightens, today's choices shape ecosystems and communities for decades. This course prepares practitioners to design tourism that protects nature, earns trust and stays financially viable.
 

We rely on the ocean for food, livelihoods and climate stability, and that reliance creates conflict. This course covers overfishing, marine pollution, habitat loss and the choices that shape ocean futures.

Conservation outcomes depend on the people who live with them. This course covers stakeholder mapping and how to build social dimensions into project design rather than adding them after the fact.

Three courses and about 45 hours. One live cohort course plus two electives you choose, for practitioners who already do conservation work and now have to run programs, budgets and teams.

Fieldwork carries physical and psychological risk that rarely gets planned for. This course covers risk assessment, preparation and the personal resilience that sustained field conservation asks of people.

Conservation decisions rest on evidence that is often incomplete or contested. This course builds the data skills to evaluate what a study actually shows, using real case studies and interactive exercises.

A three-day residential retreat in Tucson for women leading conservation work across NGOs, government, philanthropy, academia, Indigenous-led organizations and the private sector. Up to 40 participants, by nomination.