Milestones

Winter 2010

Evaluating the Landscape

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has tapped NatureServe to help assess its multiple competing land-use priorities by mapping and evaluating conditions in the Mojave and Central Basins ecoregions in the southwest and in the Seward Peninsula ecoregion in western Alaska. Read more...

Impact for Good: The Climate Change Vulnerability Index

NatureServe’s Climate Change Vulnerability Index is gaining momentum, with usage increasing significantly since the release of Version 2.0 at April’s Biodiversity Without Boundaries 2010. At least 17 states are planning or actively using the Index to modify their state wildlife action plans, and a pair of early-adopter states, Nevada and Pennsylvania, have already completed assessments. Read more...

Crawdads in Danger

Painted devil crayfish (Cambarus ludovicianus)
(Photo: R. Pierce.)

Whether you call them crayfish, crawdads, or anything in between, a new assessment indicates that more than half of these freshwater species are at risk. Having completed a conservation assessment for all native crayfish north of Mexico, NatureServe zoologist Jay Cordeiro recently presented his work at a conference of the International Association of Astacology, an organization dedicated to the study, conservation, and wise use of freshwater crayfish. Read more...

Nature’s Backbone at Risk

NatureServe chief scientist Tom Brooks, director of species science Bruce Young, and research zoologist Geoff Hammerson all contributed to the most comprehensive assessment of the world’s vertebrates to date, an effort that confirmed an extinction crisis for one-fifth of threatened species. Read more...

An Offer You Shouldn’t Refuse

What Marlon Brando is to method acting, NatureServe is to methodology—which only makes it appropriate that our Biodiversity Without Boundaries 2011 conference will be held in the Godfather’s home state. Amid the rolling hills and rich bottomland fields of southeast Nebraska, NatureServe will host conservation leaders, thinkers, and practitioners for four days of exchanging knowledge, discussing issues, sharing innovations, and networking. Read more...

Save the Date

Mark your calendars now to attend our 10th Anniversary Reception at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Read more...