NatureServe’s mission is to provide the scientific basis for effective conservation action, and more than 1,000 scientists, data managers, and other professionals participate in the NatureServe network. Their work supports science-based decision-making in the service of local, national, and global conservation needs. Representing more than 80 public and private organizations, these dedicated staff collect and manage the Western hemisphere’s most comprehensive resource for biodiversity data, containing nearly a million mapped locations of at-risk species and providing extensive information on more than 66,400 species and almost 6,700 ecosystems.
For over four decades, NatureServe’s natural heritage network has relied on a combination of expertise and on-the-ground experience to amass credible, reliable knowledge on biodiversity. Rigorous scientific methods for collecting and managing data have made NatureServe a highly trusted source for biodiversity information, tools, and services. Together with our partners, we disseminate these to natural resource and land-use practitioners and decision-makers throughout the public and private sectors to help guide and enhance the planning, management, and prioritization of lands and waters at all scales.
Specialties
conservation, science, biodiversity, data, tools, standards, methods, expertise
New hires at NatureServe
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Director of Development
Came from...
National Foundation for Cancer Research, Director of Marketing & Communications
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Development Associate
Came from...
The Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, Senior Fellow and Administrative Assistant
NatureServe Activity on LinkedIn
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NatureServe Zoologist Tom Mann from our network + Mississippi Natural Heritage Program, featured in the New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/22/us/volunteers-offer-salamanders-a-chance-to-mate.html
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NatureServe With great sadness we note the recent passing of Dr. Larry E. Morse, our former chief botanist and a legend in plant conservation http://www.natureserve.org/aboutUs/larry_morse.jsp
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NatureServe NatureServe data informs new study on how carbon payments for forest conservation could dramatically reduce global species extinctions http://j.mp/zgHdYk
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NatureServe New protected areas needed to protect endemic species & irreplaceable ecosystems in Andes-Amazon of Peru & Bolivia.
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NatureServe NatureServe's Tom Brooks co-authors study finding protection of highest-priority land habitats can ease poverty. http://t.co/GQZc0Bv1
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NatureServe has a new Development Associate
Danielle Sundstrom is now Development Associate
