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Postdoctoral Fellow Joey Curti interviewed on UCLA’s Cabinet of Curiosities podcast

La Kretz Center Postdoctoral Fellow Joey Curti was featured on the UCLA podcast to talk about his work on the short film Bat Boy and to help dispel common misconceptions about bats.

La Kretz Postdoc Joey Curti discussing his role on the student film "Bat Boy" with the UCLA Cabinet of Curiosities podcast.

Announcements

La Kretz Center/Stunt Ranch 2026 Research Awards

Now Accepting Applications from UCLA Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, & Postdoctoral Researchers. Deadline to Apply: December 1st, 2025


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Join our team as Research assistant in plant-animal interaction for the Ebony Project

Are you a Cameroonian citizen and looking for a position in ecology and conservation? The Ebony Project is hiring a Research Assistant to support tropical forest restoration and community-based conservation in…

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Featured in L.A. Times—Wilson Sherman, Ph.D. student, on how urban policies shape wildlife behavior in Los Angeles

Featured in this week’s Los Angeles Times Climate and Environment coverage, UCLA Ph.D. student Wilson Sherman shares insights on how inconsistent policies, surveillance infrastructure and fragmented governance affect where wildlife…

A mountain lion leaps across a grassy area in front of a police car in Brentwood, California, during a 2022 incident that led to an elementary school lockdown.

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The 2026 La Kretz Center Postdoctoral Fellowship

The UCLA La Kretz Center is excited to be accepting applications for the 2026 UCLA La Kretz Center Postdoctoral Fellowship! Applications will be accepted until September 15th, 2025.

UCLA La Kretz Center 2026 Postdoc Fellowship

Videos

Video: Expert insights on the causes, impacts and aftermath of the L.A. wildfires

UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability and and UCLA’s Sustainable LA Grand Challenge recently hosted a virtual seminar addressing the historic wildfires that ravaged Los Angeles in January 2025.…

Travis Longcore for ABC7 News—Efforts to Save the Birds We are Losing

Bird populations across the United States are plummeting at an alarming rate, with three billion birds lost since 1970, according to UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability professor Travis…

Publications

Declines of ebony and ivory are inextricably linked in an African rainforest

Vincent Deblauwe, Matthew Scott Luskin, Serge Désiré Assola, Olivier J. Hardy, Simon Jansen, Céline Loubières, Gaston Guy Mempong, Jean Mathurin Ntsihe, Gilbert Oum Ndjock, Eric Rostand Onguene Kwecheu, Luke L. Powell, Bonaventure Sonké, and Thomas B. Smith

Science Advances, 2025.

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