The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) is committed to supporting programs and projects that improve resilience by reducing communities’ vulnerability to coastal storms, sea-level rise, and flooding events by strengthening natural ecosystems and the fish and wildlife habitat they provide.
This report provides an update to our 2005 analysis of the conservation status of Canadian plants and animals in a global context, finding that 6.3 percent — 333 species and subspecies — are of global conservation concern. The assessment draws mostly on data from NatureServe and the network of Canadian conservation data centres.
In the few decades since the threat of climate change has been recognised, the conservation community has begun assessing vulnerability to climate change.
Even though ginseng harvest is significant, the impacts of harvesting and other threats on the species have not been comprehensively evaluated in the state of Indiana or Illinois in the last 15 years.
The vegetation communities are changing very quickly at Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve. NatureServe scientists are working to understand how to manage these threats.
An investigation of the efficacy of using disaggregated global datasets to generate national-level indicators for monitoring biodiversity compared to using data generated nationally.
NatureServe’s Biodiversity Indicators Dashboard is an interactive, user-friendly tool that visualized the health and trends of biodiversity, and tracks conservation performance at regional, national, basin, and site scales.