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The ESRI Conservation Program is the non-profit support arm of the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). We have helped to create and develop spatial analysis, computer mapping and geographic information systems (GIS) capability among thousands of non-profit organizations and individual projects of all sizes and types worldwide. We do this by donating and providing millions of dollars worth of computer technology and training for groups just beginning to work on geographic problems, on an ongoing basis, and for advanced groups at the cutting edge of conservation biology and spatial sciences. "Conservation Geography" is the name we've given to all the ways that people are using computers, maps and spatial data in their overall mission of conservation and social change. This Web site is made possible by the contributions and support of thousands of conservation/geography groups worldwide. We sincerely thank all of them for their dedication and hard work.
ESRI has agreed to be a Founding Partner in the new "Planet Action" collaborative begun by SPOT Image to make high resolution sattellite imagery grants up to 2.5m available to local NGO's worldwide for action on climate change impacts in Natural, Geological and Human dimensions. Details will be posted here as they develop. Please also check out www.planet-action.org.
The Annual SCGIS Scholarship Program will change in 2008 to be more directly run by SCGIS chapters. Details will be posted here soon.
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