What We Do

Bridging Boundaries The CCC is active in collaborative conservation efforts across Colorado, the US West and around the world. The most important boundary spanning role of the CCC is bridging the activities and interests of Colorado State University with people who do conservation in communities and local landscapes around the world.
CCC Goals Goal 1: Bring diverse people together to support conservation action. We bring stakeholders together through think tanks, dialogues, conferences and workshops to define, discuss, study, and make plans to act on emerging critical issues. Goal 2: Learn with and teach students. Current and future practitioners (scientists, students, policy-makers, and other stakeholders) co-learn about collaborative conservation and sustainable human communities, exchange and improve knowledge, and bridge scales of place and time. Goal 3: Understand and support action in collaborative conservation through research-for-action. We promote basic understanding of human-ecological systems to support collaborative conservation efforts, evaluate and analyze existing projects and initiatives, and create new links between research and action on the ground. Goal 4: Link efforts in collaborative conservation around the world. We are creating the Collaborative Conservation Learning Network to exchange innovations, studies, tools, processes, metrics and adaptive management models to help worldwide collaborative conservation efforts become more effective, resilient and sustainable.