Conserving California’s endangered species Fifty years ago, under President Richard Nixon, the United States officially enshrined into law the Endangered Species Act (ESA), arguably the most powerful piece of legal protection for at-risk species...
Brad Shaffer, director of UCLA La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, discusses how scientists are racing against time to create a global database of DNA Listen...
Shaffer lab researchers are taking the lead in the California Conservation Genomics Project, a state-funded project led by academic researchers aiming to gather genetic information on species native to California. Erin Toffelmier, associate director...
There is an estimated $598-billion funding gap between the spending on global biodiversity conservation and the total biodiversity protection needed across the globe, according to the Paulson Institute’s Financing Nature 2020 report — something...
The California Conservation Genomics Project (CCGP) is a unique, critically important step forward in the use of comprehensive landscape genetic data to modernize natural resource management at a regional scale. This dedicated issue of...
The article authored by postdoc Zac MacDonald concludes that ecologically mediated selection is contributing to variation within forest tent caterpillars (M. disstria), and that divergent adaptation related to both environmental conditions and host association should...
Brad Shaffer has been chosen to join the External Expert Advisory Board (EEAB) of the Biodiversity Genomics Europe (BGE) Project (https://biodiversitygenomics.eu). BGE is a multi-partner international project co-funded by the European Union, the UK...
A study by Robert Cooper and Brad Shaffer is featured in a News & Opinion piece in The Scientist describing how researchers scramble to adapt as bouts of severe heat and aridity increasingly become...
The California Conservation Genomics Project, led by UCLA La Kretz Center director Brad Shaffer, is highlighted as a unique, coordinated effort to help avert climate-related extinctions across the state. The article also discusses Shaffer’s...
We are rolling out (literally!) our new project led by postdoctoral researcher Robert Cooper to breed, raise and release genetically variable tiger salamanders to reverse inbreeding depression in the federally endangered Santa Barbara distinct...
