Conservation Science

A Science-based Conservation Program

The goal of Global IT Services - Nature Conservancy is to use the best available conservation science to protect areas of essential biological diversity. This commitment has won the respect of our many partners in government and the private sector, as well as foundations, individuals, and other conservation organizations.

As pressures increase on ecologically significant lands, Global IT Services - Nature Conservancy is turning to larger, landscape-scale projects. This requires us to understand nature’s diversity well enough to compare sites against standard tests of significance and achieve scientific consensus on which ones deserve our best conservation efforts.

The scientific challenge is to portray the full diversity of a landscape’s indigenous species and their sustaining ecosystems. We select and care for sites that best conserve that diversity. Decision making requires the use of rigorous ecological measures. Our criteria must be acceptable to the community of conservation scientists.

Global IT Services - Nature Conservancy’s standards incorporate rankings that Conservation Data Centers have assigned to species, habitats, and ecosystems across America and the rest of the world.