Current Annual Meeting

A collaborative meeting to advance species conservation

We look forward to welcoming you to the CPSG 2026 Annual Conference in Cologne, Germany, this October, hosted by Cologne Zoo. 
 

The CPSG Annual Conference is an open event that brings together people working across species conservation to connect, exchange ideas, and learn from one another. This conference is open to all, it is not limited to CPSG members: we welcome conservation practitioners, researchers, facilitators, educators, zoo and aquarium professionals, government representatives, NGO staff, community leaders, and anyone interested in collaborative approaches to species conservation.

Whether you are new to CPSG or have participated for years, the conference is designed as an informal and interactive space for lively discussions around familiar and emerging conservation topics. Our aim is to use the collective skills, experience, and wisdom of those present to shape ideas and accelerate positive outcomes for wildlife. 

2026 working group topics currently include:

• One Plan Approach: Recalibrating our Understanding and Re-kindling our Ambition (details here) 

• State of the World’s Ex situ Resources (details here) 

• Empowering Communities, Sustaining Species: Integrating Human Dimensions, Including Health, into Conservation Planning (details here)  

• Ctrl-Alt-Save: Species Recovery Planning Using AI (details here) 

• Including Human-Wildlife Coexistence in Species Conservation Planning (details here) 

• Case Studies on Multi-Species Planning for Plants and Building a Plan Implementation Monitoring Framework (details here) 

• Planning for Freshwater Species: Scoping a CPSG Freshwater Working Group (coming soon)

• Regional Biobanking Initiatives (coming soon) 

• Training Session: An Introduction to Facilitating Meetings and Workshops (details here) 

Would you like to propose a working group or have any questions about how this works? Email us at [email protected]