Society for Conservation Biology

05/01/2026

📖✨Join the SCB Revive Working Group's Reading Club on May 7 for honest conversations on burnout, trauma, and emotional wellbeing in .

2 virtual sessions:
🕐 8–9 AM EST
🕔 5–6 PM EST

A welcoming space for reflection, care, and community.

Register:

Brought to you by the Revive Evidence and Impact committee, our occasional Reading Club gatherings invite members of our community to discuss important takeaways and impacts of recent publications, from both scientific literature and lived experience forums (e.g., essays, blogs). 

04/23/2026

A new commentary featuring SCB's Revive Working Group is now live on Mongabay.com!

Following a recent Mongabay series exploring burnout, trauma, and the “epidemic of suffering” in conservation, conservationists are responding, and Revive is part of that movement.

In this piece, Revive President Jen R. B. Miller and Vice-President Kelly Guilbeau reflect on how individuals, teams, and organizations are actively building a culture of care: supporting one another while continuing to protect the ecosystems we care about.

Revive is part of this growing movement: a global community of conservation professionals working together to strengthen emotional hashtag and hashtag across the field.

Creating space for these conversations and for practical support, is not separate from conservation. It is essential to it.

👉 Read the comment and the related article here:

Recent Mongabay articles by Jeremy Hance, Vik Mohan and Nerissa Chao, and Rhett Butler have laid bare a painful reality in conservation: the emotional price of witnessing biodiversity loss, the “epidemic of suffering” and burnout, and the psychological stresses assailing professionals on the fro...

04/21/2026

The call for abstracts is open for IMCC8!
We welcome global, interdisciplinary, and student-led contributions. Help shape the future of ocean conservation.

🔗 Submit your abstract: https://conbio.org/mini-sites/imcc8/program
⏰ Deadline: 15 May

03/24/2026

Meet the new 2026 class of Smith Fellows!
A big congratulations to Christina De Jesús Villanueva, Prashant Ghimire, Markus Min, Tessa Rhinehart, Stephanie Valdez, Leon Tran, and Jason Toy.
See their range of exciting projects here:
https://conbio.org/publications/scb-news-blog/meet-the-2026-class-of-smith-fellows

03/23/2026

The SCB Africa Conservation Telegraph newsletter is seeking submissions!

The editorial team is excited to invite high-quality submissions of stories, articles + research papers focusing on essential aspects of across the continent.
https://conbio.informz.net/InformzDataService/OnlineVersion/Pub/bWFpbGluZ0luc3RhbmNlSWQ9OTU2MjY2Ng==
https://conbio.org/groups/sections/africa/act/

The Society for Conservation Biology is global community of conservation professionals dedicated to advancing the science and practice of conserving Earth's biological diversity.

03/19/2026

Thank you to Society for Conservation Biology for licensing my photo of a spectacled caiman for their February issue cover.

"Spectacled caiman (Caiman crocodilus) in Llanos, Venezuela. The warming climate will negatively affect nearly all species at multiple levels. Thus, adaptation to high temperatures will be critical to species' survival, particularly that of amphibians and reptiles due to the environment's regulation of their physiology and fitness. Sun et al. (e70127) examine common evolutionary and environmental thermal variations that shape reptile and amphibian heat tolerance and acclimation capacity."

03/17/2026

The SCB Art, Science and Conservation Working Group is calling for members!
The group brings together artists, researchers and conservation practitioners to explore the role of creative arts in advancing biodiversity conservation and to support art-science and art-conservation collaborations. If you have experience in art-science or art-conservation projects and can commit 2–3 hours per month to voluntary work — including online meetings — we would love to hear from you!

Thank you for your interest in joining the new Art, Science and Conservation Working Group of the Society for Conservation Biology (SCB)! The Art, Science and Conservation Working Group brings together artists, researchers and conservation practitioners worldwide to better understand the role of cre...

03/11/2026

The Call for Abstracts for ACCB 2026 in Lagos, Nigeria is now open!
Deadline: 30 May, 2026
We hope to see you in Lagos!
https://conbio.org/mini-sites/accb-2026/program-1

03/09/2026

SCB Marine Webinar Series: Join us for “Marine Conservation in the Global South: Challenges & Opportunities” with Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood and Daniel Arauz-Naranjo, moderated by Cedrick Fogwan.
27 March 2026, 14:00 GMT
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/RboHxg-PTHGgHOI-H2onKA

03/06/2026

The SCB Africa Region is excited to announce the Call for Proposals for Symposia, Workshops, Training Courses, and Round Table Discussions for the 2026 Africa Congress for Conservation Biology, scheduled for August 31- September 4 2026 in Lagos, Nigeria.
Get your submissions in by March 31st!
https://conbio.org/mini-sites/accb-2026/program-1

02/09/2026

Call for Proposals for IMCC8 now open!
Have an idea for a symposium, workshop, training course, that can move marine conservation forward? Now’s the time to shape the program with bold science, practical solutions + inclusive perspectives.
Due by March 6th. Learn more:

Program