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Picture a conservation team at work on Indigenous land. Over a season, they map a river, log a rare plant, write down an elder's account of where the water used to run and mark a cultural site on a shared map. By the end, they hold a small archive about a community and its home.
The Conservation Futures Academy's Lukas Wenrick went to Kenya's Tsavo landscape to see the corridors that keep wildlife moving between two of Africa's great national parks. Here's what he learned about the work it takes to keep these routes open, and the communities that balance conservation with livelihoods, safety and local priorities.
Many conservation professionals spend years in the field before a promotion moves them into leadership, a role their science training never covered. The Future of Conservation Leadership course is built for them.
A budget is the one part of a proposal a funder checks. These six decisions, drawn from two Conservation Futures Academy courses built with Conservation International, cover what belongs on each line and how to defend it.
When you work in conservation, you can find yourself learning new skills under pressure. And that can be really hard. Four self-paced courses developed with Conservation International practitioners and the Conservation Futures Academy are designed to fill in the gaps.
For 55 years, Gary Nabhan has watched the desert borderlands come apart, and helped coax them back, through seed banks, coalitions and a river returned to the sea. The ethnobotanist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow makes the case that hope is less a feeling than a practice. Here’s what one night of listening to him taught me.
Karla Renteria spent years wiring together data centers before she started making handbags from pineapple waste. She is the first to admit she hasn't solved all of fashion's challenges. She just refused to wait for permission to start. Her story is a hopeful lesson in what our clothes could be made of next.
Conservation projects rarely follow the proposal. These six skills, drawn from a new ASU certificate built with Conservation International, help you keep the work moving when funding, partners or conditions change.
People move into this field from ecology, data, geography and field research. You do not need every tool on day one, but you do need to understand how technology supports restoration planning. Here are the five stages a team works through.
Conservation teams have more remote sensing, drone and AI data than ever. The advantage goes to the people who can turn it into decisions. Earth Intelligence is a practical, credit-bearing course that builds that skill.
Love animals? Worried about the planet? Wondering how people protect it, and whether you could too? Plenty of people build a life around that question, and getting started is closer than you'd think.
The National Geographic Society's new Washington museum opened June 26. It is built to turn curiosity about the natural world into the understanding, and the will, to protect it.