We asked conservation researchers around the world to send us their favorite papers of 2025. They address the planet’s most ...

And it’s exactly what happened this year the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. As 2025 comes to a close, here are a few bite-sized stories that capture both the ...

Celebrate and look back at some of the groundbreaking achievements made by Smithsonian scientists this year. Mike Bock As global leaders in wildlife conservation, scientists from the Smithsonian ...

Opportunities for world-class conservation education await high school, college and graduate students just outside Front ...

“Kim Luke, Rachel McConnell, and Aaron Sturtevant, all Wildlife and Fish Conservation Biology majors, are counting and measuring the various fish life of the Waterway. (Gregory Urquiaga/UC Davis)” How ...

You’ll find a strong emphasis on the biology of organisms and ecosystems along with the application of modern scientific approaches to environmental problems and their connections to human activities ...

Conservation biology is considered to be a 'crisis discipline', and therefore requires an arsenal of approaches and techniques to ensure that educated, rapid decisions about endangered species and ...

Ch. 1. What is conservation biology? -- Ch. 2. Global biodiversity : patterns and processes -- Ch. 3. Threats to biodiversity -- Ch. 4. Conservation values and ethics -- Ch. 5. Ecological economics ...

The 3,200-acre Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) in Front Royal, Va.—which is the headquarters for the Smithsonian’s National Zoo’s conservation science initiatives and is normally ...

The Department of Biological Sciences treats the life sciences in all their breadth and diversity, including the study of molecules, cells, whole organisms, ecosystems, plants, animals and ...

A highly regarded conservation textbook is now available online for free. Conservation Biology for All, a book edited by Navjot S. Sodhi of the National University of Singapore and Paul R. Ehrlich of ...