La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science

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The La Kretz Center’s 2022 Annual Report

Check out the innovative conservation research projects, stimulating public outreach events, and exciting funding programs that the center has supported over the past year!


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Brad Shaffer & Rachel Blakey quoted in Pepperdine Graphic: Funding Biodiversity Research Provides More Understanding Amid Climate Change Effects

“If you buy into the notion that having biodiversity around you is good for people, then we have to understand enough of the ecology and the biology of the relevant biodiversity in the area to be able to keep it with us,” said H. Bradley Shaffer, distinguished professor in UCLA’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology department and professor at the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability.



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The CCGP in the UCLA Daily Bruin: UCLA La Kretz Center researchers take lead in genetics study of California’s native species

UCLA 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. The project is a collaborative effort between scientists affiliated with all 10 UC campuses, as well as members of many agencies. The researchers are working together to gather and record the genomic data of over 150 different species.