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The mission of the Center for Applied Biodiversity Science (CABS) is to strengthen CI's ability to identify and respond to elements that threaten the earth's biological diversity.
CABS brings together leading experts in science and technology to collect and interpret data about biodiversity, develop strategic plans for conservation, and forge partnerships in all sectors that promote conservation goals. CABS promotes public awareness and involvement in saving the planet's living resources.
CABS was founded in 1998 with a major grant from the Co-Founder of Intel Corporation, Gordon Moore, and his wife Betty. CABS focuses on generating and disseminating science-based information to support Conservation International's broader goals. Conservation International (CI) was founded in 1987 with the mission to conserve biodiversity and to demonstrate that human societies can live harmoniously with nature. | |
| Science in ConservationConserving the earth's species diversity and ecosystems is imperative for a multitude of reasons. Human populations and their needs presently dominate most ecosystems, thereby accelerating species' extinction. More and more evidence suggests that biodiversity leads to ecosystem stability. There is still much to learn about the earth's enormous natural diversity, about how species diversity plays a role in ecosystem stability, and about the problems associated with lost biodiversity.Conservation must turn to science to answer these questions. Conservation science demands highly skilled scientists to provide accurate diagnoses, prescriptions for action, and long-term research. The 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity, signed by 175 countries, represents a growing global consensus on the important role of biodiversity in maintaining the planet's life-support systems. Politicians and economists are learning that there is an unequivocal deadline for saving the planet. Hence, conservation scientists are rapidly collecting and compiling information to help decision-makers conserve the most precious and most endangered areas on the planet, our global biodiversity Hotspots. The Center for Applied Biodiversity Science (CABS), a division of Conservation International, is working to provide this crucial information.CABS collaborates with universities, research centers, multilateral government and non-governmental organizations, to address the urgent global-scale concerns of conservation science. CABS researchers are using state-of-the-art technology to collect data, consult with other experts around the world, and disseminate results.In this way, CABS research is an early warning system that identifies the most threatened regions before they are destroyed. In addition, CABS provides tools and resources to scientists and decisions-makers that help them make informed choices about how best to protect the hotspots. | |
| |  | | New Presentations on Hydrological Services Available Online: Sampurno Bruijnzeel, tropical hydrology expert, talks about vegetation, reforestation, and hydrological services in two CI-sponsored presentations.
Oct. 16 presentation at the World Bank (8 MB PDF)
Oct. 17 presentation at CI (7.2 MB PDF)New CABS Brochure Now Available: Click here to view the latest CABS brochure. Contact us to order a hard copy. The Environmental Systems Research Institute Awards CABS’ GIS & Mapping Lab: The Institute honored the Lab for the fifth time in six years, awarding it First Place in the Best Cartographic Design - Single Map Product category for the Coppename River AquaRAP by Mark Denil.
View the winning map Hotspots Revisited Available Online. Hotspots Revisited details the state of the earth's biodiversity hotspots. The book identifies 34 regions that cover only 2.3 percent of the Earth's surface but are home to 75 percent of the planet's most threatened species.
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