Last month, we wrapped up the 2021 Biodiversity Without Boundaries conference. The virtual conference had over 400 registered attendees—a new record! Plenary sessions and the Award’s Lunch recordings are available on NatureServe's YouTube channel. Feel free to check them out and share them with anyone you think would be interested. Stay tuned for details on BWB 2022!

In March, NatureServe’s Healy Hamilton joined Esri’s Dawn Wright, The Nature Conservancy’s Katharine Hayhoe, and Heather Clancy from GreenBiz in a discussion about sparking change in the face of climate skepticism. Watch the recorded session below for the full experience.

In April, we announced a new partnership with the United States Botanic Garden! Together, we’ll tackle two critical areas of plant conservation— assessing threats to at-risk plants and safeguarding the wild relatives of crops—while also educating the public about the growing risk of plant extinction. Read the full story below.

In May, our Chief Scientist, Healy Hamilton, and Director of Spatial Analysis, Regan Smyth, were featured in "Women and GIS, Volume 3: Champions of a Sustainable World," a publication from Esri Press. Read about their journey in GIS, their impressive contributions to their fields, and their words of wisdom gained along the way.

Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction, joins Sean in a conversation about the origins of conservation, climate change, and the many motivations for protecting nature. Listen and learn about the complex history of species conservation, the challenges we face today, and interconnected solutions for our future.

In honor of invasive species awareness week, Sean speaks with Carrie Brown-Lima, Director of the NY Invasive Species Research Institute at Cornell University.

In this episode of Conservation Conversations, Sean speaks with Andrea Wulf, an award–winning author of six acclaimed books, including the New York Times best sellers ‘Founding Gardeners’ and ‘The Invention of Nature.’

In this episode of Conservation Conversations, Sean sits down with Saharah Moon Chapotin, Executive Director of the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C.

In April, NatureServe revealed our much-anticipated new logo! The blue hexagon represents the spatial nature of our data. The green leaf and the salamander represent the plants, animals, and ecosystems that we and our Network programs work to understand and conserve.

You can find new logo resources in the Media Kit on our website.

The Indiana Natural Heritage Data Center is collaborating with the Tennessee Natural Heritage Inventory Program, the Kentucky Nature Preserves, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and researchers from Tennessee Tech University and the Missouri Botanical Garden this spring to monitor the globally imperiled (G2) globe bladderpod (Physaria globosa). Researchers are also studying various aspects of pollination, life history, and genetic variation of the species throughout its range.

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