IT’S NOW OR NEVER

California’s biodiversity is essential. It sustains our food systems and delivers medical miracles. It cleans our water and air, strengthens resilience against fires and floods, and provides perspectives and pause that heal the body and lift the spirit.

And it’s vanishing at an unprecedented rate.

WE BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER

SCIENTISTS offer ideas and solutions.

ACTIVISTS bring passion and vision.

PHILANTHROPISTS bring resources.

POLICYMAKERS seek pathways for change.

We bring them all TOGETHER.

CIB coordinates efforts across all sectors to safeguard California’s remarkable diversity for future generations.

WHAT WE DO

The California Institute for Biodiversity (CIB) advances partnerships and grows solutions to save, understand, and celebrate California’s remarkable diversity.

  • Saving Places

    We work with several groups to protect and restore vital habitats for biodiversity and human well-being.

  • Rewilding California

    We advocate for programs that protect native species such as seed banking.

  • California All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory

    Click here to visit the ATBI website.

  • Education

    Contact us for K12 biodiversity curriculum.

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