Center for Tropical Research

BACKING BIODIVERSITY WITH A GLOBAL IMPACT

The Center for Tropical Research (CTR), part of the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, brings together faculty, students, and research fellows from across disciplines to tackle some of the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. Our work focuses on biodiversity, conservation, and climate change in the tropics, the ecosystems that are vital to the planet’s health and future.

From the rainforests of the Congo Basin to the depths of the Amazon and beyond, CTR researchers conduct fieldwork and use the latest technologies such as remote sensing and genomics to generate impactful science. We work hand-in-hand with local communities and train the next generation of environmental leaders at UCLA and abroad.

Your support helps us expand this work, fund student research, expand fieldwork, and deliver solutions that protect our planet’s most critical ecosystems. By contributing to projects like PANGEA–our global effort to study vulnerability and resilience of tropical forests–or supporting our genomic work to unlock the secrets of how tropical organisms adapt to environmental change, you will be helping us make a lasting impact where it matters most.

Join us. Protect the Tropics. Power the Future.

Learn more about the work of CTR in this video: