PRESS RELEASE For release Nov. 8, 2022, 12 pm PST Contact: Sally Esposito, Island Conservation, Interim Strategic Director of Communications, sally.esposito@islandconservation.org Resources: Interviews, peer-reviewed publication, photos Introduced, damaging, invasive rodents on islands are a leading cause of species extinctions [...]
Leading gene drive researchers, conservation biologists, and experts in social science, ethics, and policy—outline the principles and commitments necessary to conduct field trials of Gene Drive Organisms. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contacts: Mario Aguilera, UC [...]
Pushing Forward: A Review of 2019 from the GBIRd Partnership Island Conservation's GBIRd program manager Royden Saah takes a look back at the partnership's 2019 accomplishments. The Genetic Biocontrol of Invasive Rodents Program, or GBIRd, [...]
New York Times Magazine Features Island Conservation and the Opportunities and Challenges Surrounding Gene Drives Jennifer Kahn uncovers the challenges, nuances, and opportunities that gene drive research presents for the world in a new article [...]
Press Release: Opportunities and Knowledge Gaps in Gene Drive Research Genetic Biocontrol of Invasive Rodents (GBIRd) program partners evaluate the field of gene drive research for conservation and identify areas of interest where additional research [...]
Gene Drive and Thinking Animals Island Conservation's GBIRd program manager, Royden Saah, speaks about the importance of innovative technologies and gene drive at the Thinking Animals Summit. Royden Saah, Island Conservation's GBIRd program manager, recently [...]
Island Conservation’s Major Gifts Officer, Heath Packard, spoke with Santa Cruz Works’, Eric Johnson, about the threat of invasive species and the development of new technology in the field. Eric: You are participating in next [...]
Outreach Network for Gene Drive members discuss gene drive at IUCN Regional Conservation Forum. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) started a series of Regional Conservation Fora in preparation for the IUCN World [...]
Nature features Island Conservation's GBIRd Program Manager, Royden Saah, and the impact gene drive could have for preventing extinctions. Read the original article in Nature Researchers around the world are studying the possibility of using [...]
Revive & Restore launches a fund to develop ground-breaking solutions to ocean conservation. The world’s oceans are in great peril. To help conservation and to reverse the trends of oceanic degradation, we must innovate and [...]