GIS mapping and analysis can empower your conservation initiatives through strengthened communication, more informed and intelligent decision making, and program guidance.

Program Support

• Identify priorities. Optimize your organization’s effectiveness by focusing your program goals in areas of greatest conservation need and/or in which substantial successes are most likely to be realized.

• Plan conservation actions. Fine-tune your conservation strategies to the unique geography of a target species, community, or ecosystem, including its physiographic and biogeographic setting, socio-economic context, proximate threats, and related conservation initiatives.

• Coordinate field operations. Use maps of sampling schemes and relevant geographic phenomena to better plan and track your progress in canvassing, ecological monitoring, or other data collection efforts.

• Empower your staff. Bring the versatile power of GIS in-house through training and installation options scaled to your needs and operational budget.

Decision Support

• Describe critical issues. Interpret and characterize a more complete picture of any conservation problem through examination of its context in both space and time.

• Analyze data. Apply spatial statistics to reveal important interrelationships in your data, then synthesize those findings to better understand the socio-ecological patterns and processes affecting a target population or habitat and the implications for its conservation.

• Model alternative scenarios. Predict the ever-changing face of a landscape, the ecological impacts of human agency, and the outcomes of various management policies.

Communication

• Define your programs. Use GIS mapping to delineate your “spheres of activity” and endow your programs with distinct visual identities.

• Inform stakeholders. Enable more effective stewardship among key publics by exploring the important geographic context and aspects of any conservation issue.

• Influence decisionmakers. Heighten the impact of advocacy messaging with land manager and agency officials while maintaining a defensible base in scientific data and objective information.

• Illustrate accomplishments. Clarify and underscore program achievements by depicting them in both visual and place-specific terms.

• Generate funds. Create more compelling progress reports for funders by organizing your proposals and program work according to a measurable geographic framework.