This 2.5 day workshop brought together Indigenous scholars, community members and leaders, and collaborative conservation researchers and practitioners, to share experiences and lessons learned about research partnerships that simultaneously address critical conservation and community needs. The overarching goal was to …
Why Collaborate? Historically, conservation focused on saving species and protecting natural resources, paying little attention to people. Yet without the involvement of local people and communities, many past conservation successes were short-lived. Collaboration supports more enduring conservation outcomes because it …
CCC Fellows Reunion The CCC is celebrating 10 years of their Fellows Program! To celebrate, the CCC held a fellows reunion on Sept. 13 at the CSU campus. About 30 fellows were in attendance. Each Fellow shared… The title and …
We first began the research for the Collaborative Conservation Atlas project back in 2013 with the goal of identifying and systematically describing collaborative initiatives across the state to gain a better understanding of ‘who is doing what, where?’ Since then, …
Abstract: For millennia Indigenous communities worldwide have maintained diverse knowledge systems informed through careful observation of dynamics of environmental changes. Although Indigenous communities and their knowledge systems are recognized as critical resources for understanding and adapting to climate change, no …
CCC’s Research Working Group: “Taking Stock and Telling Our Stories” Workshop In 2016, the CCC created the CCC Research Working Group to leverage CSU’s existing research capacity and help guide the CCC’s research program. The Research Working Group identified initial …
On March 1-2, 2018, Heather Knight, CCC’s Associate Director of Practice and Matt McKinney and Shawn Johnson with the Center for Natural Resources and Environmental Policy at University of Montana, hosted 60 practitioners from the American West at a workshop …
These reports were published by the Kenya Wildlife Conservancies Association that the CCC was able to assist with: State of Wildlife Conservancies Report State of Conservancies Report
Building Capacity for Collaborative Conservation: Findings from a Practitioner Needs Assessment of Collaborative Capacity in the American West. During fall 2016 and winter 2017, Heather Knight, Associate Director of the Practitioner Program at the Center for Collaborative Conservation, completed a …
About: Watershed investment programs offer promising pathways to securing safe drinking water. But what does it take to establish and grow a successful watershed investment program? Program investors and practitioners are looking for guidance and ideas on how to build a …
