Recent Events 
© CI/Photo by Haroldo Castro 
© CI/Photo by Haroldo Castro 
       

With an extended family of supporters, including some of today's leading influentials and pioneers in green issues, CI events are both successful in generating conservation dollars and in igniting new ideas and discussion about worldwide conservation.

November 5, 2009
October 20, 2009
September 13, 2009
June 8, 2009
March 5, 2009
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November 6, 2008
April 24, 2008
Tom Friedman at Washington, D.C. Event
November 1, 2007
“It’s much more important to change your leaders than to change your lightbulbs.” These bold words were delivered by New York Times columnist Tom Friedman from the podium at CI's November 1, 2007 dinner.
October 9, 2007
2007 Seattle Dinner
August 19, 2007
2007 Jackson Hole Dinner
June 14, 2007
June 4, 2007
Two real life Indiana Joneses took the stage at CI’s 11th Annual Los Angeles Dinner. Adventure photographer Art Wolfe shared stories of his travels and CI President Russ Mittermeier discussed CI’s work worldwide.
May 17, 2007
We hosted our most successful dinner ever at the American Museum of Natural History on May 17, 2007. The event, CI’s 10th Annual New York Dinner, raised a record $1.9 million.
March 1, 2007
We brought Wal-Mart’s Rob Walton and UCLA geography professor Dr. Jared Diamond together to discuss the stake all of us have in the future health of our planet.
November 2, 2006
Conservation is not the concern of just a small niche of the American public. Protecting nature is strategic, economic, and even patriotic, making conservation everyone’s issue.
May 24, 2006
Asked by Tom Brokaw why he was concerned about the environment, Ted Turner replied, “If we don’t stop doing things wrong and start doing things right, if we keep acting stupidly instead of acting smartly, we’ll be extinct.”
March 2, 2006
Best-selling author Bill Bryson told guests that not only were they lucky to be enjoying CI’s 10th Annual Los Angeles Dinner, they were also extraordinarily lucky to be living on Earth.
January 9, 2006
“How do you make the circle wider?” was the question Peter Seligmann, CI's Chairman and CEO, posed to a group of more than 100 who gathered at The Ruins in Seattle on January 9 to celebrate and support Conservation International’s work.
November 3, 2005
2005 Washington, D.C. Dinner
Human welfare took center stage at CI’s second Washington D.C. Dinner on November 3, 2005.
May 3, 2005
CI hosted one of its most successful fundraisers ever for its Eighth Annual New York Dinner on May 3, 2005. With more than 800 guests, the event raised over $1.5 million for CI’s conservation efforts around the world.
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