D. Walton and B. Carmichael sampling in the field
Products & Services
Our Core Capabilities
NatureServe conservation services are provided by teams of experienced professionals from multiple programs and disciplines. For those projects requiring outside expertise, we partner with a large number of governmental, non-profit, for profit, and academic institutions. Your Natural Heritage Program or Conservation Data Center can provide many of the services you require. NatureServe's capabilities include:
- Data and GIS:
- Acquisition and integration of existing data sources
- Remote sensing and GIS mapping
- Habitat and landscape condition modeling
- Data management
- Science:
- Ecology, botany, zoology expertise
- Identifying important targets of your conservation
- Translating community values into mappable features and measurable objectives
- Setting conservation requirements such as minimum required habitat patch sizes and quantitative conservation goals
- Developing models of threats to conservation values
- Establishing compatible land use and management practices with conservation values
- Developing monitoring plans
- Planning:
- Developing conservation planning processes that integrate with local social and political structures
- Conservation assessment for determining threats and gaps in conservation goal achievement
- Developing conservation priorities and implementation strategies
- Decision Support and Information Technology:
- Selecting and assembling suites of decision support and modeling tools to support the planning process and ongoing implementation and monitoring
- Customizing existing tools for specific needs and operating environments
- Developing new tools to supplement existing tools for conducting specific functions