Students enhance conservation efforts and uplift local perspectives in Cameroon
In March, UCLA students joined students at National Forestry School (NFS) in Mbalmayo to plant 1,200 native trees including frake, ebony and assamela in Cameroon.
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Elsa Ordway Leads PANGEA Scoping Workshop in Washington D.C.
UCLA Center for Tropical Research and Congo Basin Institute co-director Dr. Elsa Ordway is leading PANGEA, a NASA-funded effort to design a large-scale field campaign studying tropical forests worldwide. This…
5 UCLA faculty members elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The academy serves as an independent research center convening leaders from across disciplines, professions and perspectives to address significant challenges, with the aim of producing independent and pragmatic studies that…
Daniel Blumstein and Thomas Smith for Public Square—Is the Wilderness Act Still Protecting Nature?
In a new essay for Public Square, UCLA professors Daniel Blumstein and Thomas Smith discuss the implications of the Wilderness Act of 1964 on effective land management and climate research. They…
Ary Amaya is 27 acres into an Indigenous-led reforestation of L.A. She’s far from done
The UCLA graduate student is helping ensure that Native ecology drives the region’s land management for centuries to come.
Elsa Ordway for Down to Earth — ‘The Congo more climate-resilient than Amazonia? Jury is still out’
Elsa Ordway, co-director of the Congo Basin Institute and Center for Tropical Research, recently collaborated with global experts in Cameroon to strategize a 10-year study on tropical forest ecology. The project,…
Elsa Ordway and Virginia Zaunbrecher — NASA-funded study brings together researchers from across the world to unravel mysteries of tropical forests
UCLA Center for Tropical Research and Congo Basin Institute Co-Director Elsa Ordway and Congo Basin Institute Managing Director Virginia Zaunbrecher discuss a NASA-funded project aimed at supporting the research and…
Tracking Pangolin Poaching: A New Tool in the Fight Against Wildlife Trafficking
From Esri Blog: A network of scientists have mapped illegal pangolin trade in an effort to pinpoint where the animals are being killed so they can stop it. Pangolins, often…
Jen Tinsman Spotlights Pangolin Conservation on “The Science Podcast”
CTR Team member, Jen Tinsman, a forensic wildlife biologist at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, has been featured on “The Science Podcast.” Jen is at the forefront of the…
Breakthrough reveals poaching hotspots, trade routes of most trafficked endangered mammal
Powerful genomic approach could boost efforts to slow illegal trade of pangolins
The Global Eye in dialogue with Thomas Smith
We are thrilled to shine a spotlight on the groundbreaking work of Professor Tom Smith, who was recently featured in an insightful interview with The Global Eye. In this exclusive…
CBI Mission: Bridging Conservation and Communities in the Dja
In an effort to foster community engagement and discuss ongoing conservation efforts, the Congo Basin Institute (CBI) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) embarked on a mission to…