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The Conservation Leadership Through Learning master’s program has been awarded the Western Association of Graduate Schools Award for Excellence and Innovation in Graduate Education.

The annual award is given to one university each year and recognizes outstanding contributions to graduate education based on the criteria of excellence, innovation and significance. CLTL, a program of...

 Please enjoy our Spring 2013 Newsletter by opening the attached .pdf file. 

A former CCC Fellow, David ole Nkedianye, was elected County Governor of Kajiado County in Kenya in March 2013.

http://elections.nation.co.ke/news/Newcomers-shine-in-governor-senate-ra...

Congratulations David!

On November 1, 2012, the Coloradoan newspaper ran an article on the CCC-incubated Colorado Conservation Exchange. http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012311020013

We are pleased to distribute the Fall 2012 CCC newsletter.  Check out what our staff, fellows, associated researchers and partners in collaborative conservation have been up to over the past six months!

Robin Reid and co-authors were awarded the Ecological Society of America's 2012 Sustainability Science Award for their paper, “Evolution of models to support community and policy action with science: Balancing pastoral livelihoods and wildlife conservation in savannas of East Africa,” published in PNAS, 2009.

This award is given annually to the authors of the peer reviewed paper published in the past five years that makes the greatest contribution to the emerging science...

We are pleased to distribute the Spring 2012 CCC Newsletter.  Take a look and see what we and our fellows have been up to!

 

The Center for Collaborative Conservation (CCC) at Colorado State University and the Warner College of Natural Resources awarded 14 fellowships to form the fourth cohort of CCC fellows. These fellows include eight graduate students, one faculty member and five conservation practitioners.

This fourth cohort of CCC fellows will be working in six countries including Canada, Ethiopia, Haiti, Mongolia, Philippines and the United States. The cohort also will work with two tribal nations,...

An interview about the Serengeti-Mara wildebeest migration, on CBS' 60 Minutes with Robin Reid, director of the Center for Collaborative Conservation, Warner College of Natural Resources, originally aired Sunday, Oct. 4, 2009. The story aired again with an update on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012.

http://www.today.colostate.edu/story.aspx?id=6683

 We are pleased to distribute the 2nd edition of the CCC's newsletter, CCC Connections.  You can read the newsletter here.

The Center for Collaborative Conservation at Colorado State University is pleased to announce that Kimberly Skyelander will be joining our staff as our first Associate Director. Kim received her PhD from the University of Idaho in Natural Resources Management and is currently the President and Executive Director of the Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center in Finland, MN. She was also on the faculty at the University of Idaho and Salish Kootenai College, and she has extensive...

November 3, 2010 | Patrick Flynn hired as CCC Wyss Fellow!  We are so pleased to announce the hiring of Patrick Flynn as the Wyss Fellow (Collaborative Conservation Entrepreneur) at the Center for Collaborative Conservation at Colorado State University. Patrick received a master’s in Business from CSU’s Global Social & Sustainable Enterprise program, and he will soon complete his second master’s in...

Joana and Lindsay receive award at CSU Media Festival

Joana Roque de Pinho (CCC Fellow - 1st cohort) and Lindsay Simpson (CCC undergraduate intern) were awarded a "Cammy Grande" trophy for their Maasai Photovoice documentary at the 2nd Annual CSU Media Festival held September 22-25, 2010.  The award will be donated to the...

We are pleased to distribute the inaugural issue of the Center for Collaborative Conservation’s newsletter:  CCC Connections. 

 August 2010 ~ Volume 1, Issue 1

March 26 - May 24, 2010
First National Bank Gallery
Morgan Library, first floor
 


Photographs by Maasai and Samburu photographers of Kenya will be displayed in the Morgan Library from March 26 – May 24. Taken by first-time photographers from Maasai (southern Kenya) and Samburu (northern Kenya) communities, these photographs illustrate how local photographers perceive their natural environments and their societies in transition in the...

November 2009 | Robin Reid's 60 Minutes Interview Featured in CSU's Competitive Edge! A powerful Oct. 4 interview airing on CBS' 60 Minutes with Robin Reid, director of Colorado State University's Center for Collaborative Conservation, highlighted the remarkable Serengeti-Mara wildebeest migration, the largest remaining migration of large mammals on Earth. Reid talked with 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley in Kenya about the challenges for the survival...

October 4, 2009 | Robin Reid's Interview on CBS' 60 Minutes!  Robin talks with 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley about the spectacle of the Serengeti-Mara wildebeest migration, which is the largest remaining migration of large mammals on earth. The interview covers multiple challenges of maintaining this 1.3 million-strong herd including deforestation, low river...

June 2009 | Robin Reid's research highlighted in The Competitive Edge!  A blurb of Robin Reid's research in the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya is included in June's The Competitive Edge, an e-newsletter from the CSU President’s Office.

http://edge.colostate.edu/pages/email-june2009-global.asp

February 2009 | CCC announces the first cohort of CCC Fellows!  In February, 2009, the Center for Collaborative Conservation awarded 17 fellowships which form the first cohort of CCC Fellows.  These fellows include 11 graduate students, 3 faculty members and 3 conservation practitioners (undergraduates will work with some of these fellows this year).  The Fellows are from 5 nations around the globe (and working in...

April 23, 2009 | CCC Director Robin Reid featured on PRI radio program! Robin Reid, Director of the Center for Collaborative Conservation, was featured on Public Radio International’s (PRI) “The World” Geoquiz program on April 23rd, 2009.  The program centered on the Maasai Mara Game Reserve in southern Kenya, where Robin has conducted research for many years.  Follow this link to PRI’s webpage, and to find...