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Extinction: Solutions for Species on the Brink

This conference brings together experts and advocates from across multiple fields of conservation to address threats to ecosystems and biodiversity, and the efforts being made, demanded, and imagined in order to protect and restore species in decline. The program presents a series of distinctively different approaches to species conservation and management.

The conference takes place on February 9th and 10th from 10:00am to 1:30 pm PST

For more information and a full agenda, please visit the conference landing page https://www.coastal-quest.org/?page_id=598

Featured Speakers Include:
John Baker, Chief Program Officer, Managing Director, WildAid
Suzanne Case, Chairperson, Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources
Kathy MacKinnon, Chair, IUCN’s World Commission of Protected Areas
Jennifer Norris, Deputy Secretary of Biodiversity and Habitat, California Natural Resources Agency
Carl Safina, Founding President, Ecologist and Author, The Safina Center
Ronald Swaisgood, Brown Endowed Director of Recovery Ecology, San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research
Charles R. “Chipper” Wichman, Jr., President, National Tropical Botanical Garden
Lindsay Young, Executive Director, Pacific Rim Conservation

Conference Themes:
Framing the Magnitude of the Threats and Unmet Challenges
Solutions: Saving Them in the Wild
Solutions: Achieving 30 by 30
COVID-19 – Opportunities to Save Species
Ex-situ Conservation: The Role of Zoos and Reserves in Reducing Extinctions
Experimenting with Technology to Stop or Reverse Extinction
The Imperative for Action

Presented by:
Toward a Sustainable 21st Century Series
UCI Newkirk Center for Science and Society
UCI Law, Center for Land, Environment and Natural Resources (CLEANR)
Coastal Quest
UCI Media