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.

  • Training and supporting teachers, to change the world

  • Listening to scientists, supporting partners, uniting voices

  • Advocating Transformation Change

  • Scientific collections: boldly building back today, for the future