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California Biodiversity Network

The California Biodiversity Network brings together key environmental experts and community leaders who are united to conserve California’s globally renowned and highly threatened natural heritage. This inaugural network aims to grow quickly to be inclusive across all sectors, engaging environmental stewards, governmental and tribal representatives, scientists, and educators working at local, regional, and statewide scales. The network provides a collaborative forum for California’s diverse conservation organizations and scientific institutions prioritizing biodiversity protection, stewardship, environmental education, and scientific inquiry.

The network will support the development and implementation of conservation actions, both governmental and non-governmental, under the four goals of the California Biodiversity Collaborative. It will focus on providing key technical and societal expertise to inform decision-making around biodiversity and framing collective efforts where most needed. With a broadly inclusive approach, this network aims to leverage the collective achievements of local, regional, and statewide efforts to realize a shared vision for a resilient and diverse California. As a first step, we will seek out and engage diverse stakeholders—from Indigenous communities and private landowners to scientists and local governments—to discover and frame new and inclusive pathways toward a more sustainable future.

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Shared Vision

Enhanced health and resiliency of ecosystems not only by preserving but also by rewilding, restoration, and regeneration
Improved equity, opportunity, and diversity within the field of conservation and access to biodiversity resources
Coordinated public education efforts and citizen science campaigns
Renewed collective impact through collaborative conservation
Integrated biodiversity conservation efforts across protected areas, working lands, tribal lands, and urban landscapes

Guiding Principles for Building a Successful Network

  • The State’s scarce resources will be maximized by collaborating instead of competing and by leveraging our combined expertise and land base, connecting a network of people to a network of lands and waters.
  • The role of science will be optimized, and available political and material resources will be strengthened to protect and restore biodiversity by aligning our communications and actions.
  • Long-term monitoring, museum collections and experimental data will be integrated and analyzed as a shared resource to inform conservation and land stewardship, creating a single point of access for biodiversity expertise and spatial data.
  • Conservation outcomes will be improved, advancing large landscape conservation objectives, and reversing biodiversity and habitat declines by bringing evidenced-based conservation practices to scale for the State.
  • Best practices will be shared across the network resulting in an equitable pipeline for biodiversity leadership, ensuring intergenerational succession of practitioners, and informing our citizenry about training and certification opportunities benefiting California’s diverse population.
  • We will build bridges between public and private institutions, resulting in shared resources across jurisdictions that increase the impact of the California Biodiversity Collaborative.


Partners

The California Biodiversity Network welcomes additional partners; please contact us for more information on joining the group.

All Things Green PR

California Academy of Sciences

Center for Biodiversity and Community
Institute for Biodiversity Science & Sustainability
iNaturalist

California Botanic Garden

California Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit

California Department of Fish and Wildlife

California Department of Parks and Recreation

California Institute for Biodiversity

California Landscape Conservation Partnership

California Landscape Stewardship Network

California Natural Resources Agency

California State University, Channel Islands

Conservation Biology Institute

Defenders of Wildlife

East Bay Regional Park District

Endemic Environmental Services

Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History

National Park Service

Native American Land Conservancy

Parks Conservancy

Pepperwood

Point Blue Conservation Science

Robert Redford Conservancy for Southern California

Santa Cruz Mountains Conservancy

Sonoma Land Trust

Sustainability at Pitzer College

The Nature Conservancy

The Trust for Public Land

United States Air Force

University of California Office of the President

Natural Reserve System

University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley Natural History Museums
Department of Integrative Biology
Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management
Institute for Parks, People, and Biodiversity
Rausser College of Natural Resources

University of California, Davis

School of Natural Sciences

University of California, Los Angeles

California Conservation Genomics Project
La Kretz Center for Conservation Science

University of California, Merced

School of Natural Sciences

University of California, Riverside

College of Agriculture & Natural Resources
Environmental Dynamics and GeoEcology Institute 
Center for Conservation Biology 
California Agriculture and Food Enterprise  
Center for Integrative Biological Collections 

University of California, Santa Barbara

Bren School of Environmental Science and Management

University of California, Santa Cruz

Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Marine Sciences Institute

Big Horn Ships

Steering Committee

David Ackerly, Rausser College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley
Sarah Allen, National Park Service (retired)
Dick Cameron, The Nature Conservancy
Peggy Fiedler, University of California Natural Reserve System
Jon Jarvis, Berkeley Institute for Parks, People & Biodiversity
Lisa Micheli, Pepperwood
Jennifer Norris, California Natural Resources Agency, Biodiversity and Habitat
Scott Sampson, California Academy of Sciences
Christina Sloop, California Department of Fish & Wildlife, Science Institute

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