NatureServe today announced the launch of InSite by NatureServe, a powerful new tool that provides instant insight into the biodiversity opportunities and risks of any location in the contiguous United States.
For nearly 50 years, NatureServe has been the authoritative source for biodiversity data throughout North America. This Earth Month its President and CEO, Dr. Sean T. O’Brien, is showing the world why this matters by highlighting efforts to conserve endangered species across the continent.
Among North American wildflowers, few are as beloved and culturally relevant as Trilliums. A new report led by the ABQ BioPark, NatureServe, and Mt. Cuba Center, found that 32% of all North American Trillium species or varieties are threatened with extinction.
A study led by NatureServe with partners from Esri, The Nature Conservancy, and the NatureServe Network offers an unprecedented, fine-scale map of the places that matter most for sustaining our nation’s biodiversity. The findings can be used to make conservation efforts more effective and to reduce conflict with other land uses.
As Ghana weighs the economic benefits of mining bauxite for aluminum, multi-billion-dollar global companies respond to the community groups calling for the protection of key biodiversity area, Atewa Forest.
NatureServe’s Director of Biodiversity Indicators Program, Mike Gill, collaborated with researchers from China and Germany to complete a pivotal study in the leading international journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, analyzing why the world continues to fall short in reaching its global biodiversity targets.
America the Beautiful is a locally-led and voluntary nationwide conservation goal to conserve 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030. NatureServe data are fundamental to any science-based effort to expand effective conservation in our country.
NatureServe will work with Amazon’s cloud computing arm to help prevent extinction by transitioning the planet’s first biodiversity observation network into the cloud.
NatureServe is excited to announce the launch of its first podcast series, Conservation Conversations with Sean O’Brien. Hosted by NatureServe’s President & CEO, Dr. Sean T. O’Brien, each episode will feature an exclusive interview with a leading expert in the conservation field.
A study conducted by NatureServe and published in PLOS ONE yesterday documents the loss of ecosystem diversity across the Americas and that terrestrial ecosystems are widely underrepresented in protected areas.
