CIB advances partnerships and grows solutions to save, understand, and celebrate California’s remarkable diversity.
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Cadiz Inc. has long proposed pumping groundwater from the Mojave Desert, putting the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe’s sacred springs at risk.
A new campaign has launched to stop it.
Follow: instagram.com/StopCadiz/
Sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Amazing work from the volunteers with the California State Parks Foundation for California Coastal Cleanup Day this weekend!
Want to keep the momentum going? Volunteer workdays happen all year; no experience needed. Sign up at calparks.org/volunteer
A new biological library of California’s tide pools is documenting algae, tiny invertebrates & their DNA to help researchers track changes linked to climate change, warming waters & rising sea levels.
Read more: calalive.net/4i42nQV
California Biodiversity Week starts Sept 5th! Celebrate our state's incredible nature and learn how you can help conserve it. Find a bioblitz, walk, or event near you: californianature.ca.gov/page…
On this day in 2018, fire devastated the National Museum of Brazil, destroying 20 million artifacts of irreplaceable heritage.
A reminder that "our shared global heritage is precious and fragile" — and why safeguarding collections matters.
The Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP) just completed the first large-scale sampling event for CA's Intertidal Biodiversity DNA Barcode Library: 45+ taxonomists, 7,000+ specimens, ~1,600 species across 23 sites.
sccwrp.org/intertidal-biobli…
We're over halfway to 1,000 soil samples for Summer of Soil! Help us document California's soil biodiversity before Labor Day — request a free sampling kit and get the kids involved. Follow us on Instagram @ cainstituteforbiodiversity for more ways to get involved.
A 10,000-hectare patch of Amazon rainforest may hold ~40,000 insect species — most new to science. Hundreds of researchers in Brazil are running the largest ground-to-canopy insect survey ever, using vertical trap arrays + DNA barcoding.
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Most of what lives in soil has never been identified. A new paper in Scientific Reports introduces optical "fingerprinting" that ID's soil organisms in seconds — and finds 6x more species diversity with the same sampling effort. 🌱 calalive.net/3S6yhSj
A new bill would send scientists to sequence genomes from Earth's rarest, most extreme-surviving species — then use AI to mine that data for new medicines.
Read more: calalive.net/4xdJa3x
Plant with purpose. Grow native plants.
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New research suggests we've undercounted insect diversity by 2–3x. Using DNA barcoding across 1.6M tropical specimens, scientists now estimate 14–20 million insect species may exist on Earth, far beyond the previous benchmark of 6 million! Read the study: calalive.net/4voBo5B
Big news for endangered species: Colossal Biosciences & U.S. Fish and Wildlife are partnering to preserve cells, tissue, and DNA from every plant and animal under the Endangered Species Act — 2,300+ species worldwide. Read more here: bit.ly/4w4it12
Your backyard observations matter! Every species you log on iNaturalist adds to a growing record of California's biodiversity — supporting researchers and land managers statewide. No find is too small! 🪲
Image courtesy of iNaturalist: instagram.com/p/DZaROvwCQRc/…
We’re racing to collect as many species as we can, so we can protect them. Join us!
Just scoop, label, and send. We’ll send you back information about what we find in your soil.
Visit CalATBI.org for more info.
Request a sampling kit here: HTTPS://cal-atbi-kit-fulfill…
What's living in your backyard soil? 🌱
We're 310/1,000 samples into #SummerOfSoil — help us find out. Could be a species no one's discovered yet.
Scoop. Label. Send. CalATBI.org
It's the fifth annual California State Parks Week!
From June 10–14, free events at state parks across California are open to all — horseback riding, nature journaling, historical tours, and much more.
RSVP for free events at castateparksweek.org
Happy Earth Day!
Today, we celebrate the incredible diversity of life that makes our planet so vibrant, from the smallest organisms to the largest ecosystems. At the California Institute for Biodiversity, we’re continually inspired by the beauty, resilience, and
California All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory partners are collecting samples from all over California to discover and preserve California's biodiversity.
Join us! calatbi.org/collect-samples
