About Conservation/Geography and the ESRI Conservation Program
What we do:
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 how we describe their
use of these technologies, theories, methods and skills to in their overall
mission of conservation and social change.
How we do it:
- We donate and provide dozens of different kinds of ESRI GIS software.
- We donate and provide dozens of types of training courses at many locations
around the world
- We donate and provide spatial data produced by ESRI and others
- We donate and provide basic and advanced geographic information science books
produced by ESRI
- We donate and develop annual conferences so that all nonprofit Conservation/Geography
folks can gather as a community and can afford to attend the gigantic
ESRI International conference, largest GIS conference in the world.
- We organize mapping support organizations devoted to serving the nonprofit
community so that they don't have to build their own GIS lab just to get
a few simple analyses or maps done for a strategic plan, a hearing, a
court case, an education campaign. The mapping services centers we have
helped build have been responsible for helping hundreds of nonprofit groups
benefit from the best conservation science and mapping.
- We organize with hardware manufacturers on integrated donation campaigns
to provide complete spatial analysis labs to about 50 nonprofit organizations
annually.
This site is our best effort to serve our community of grantees and beneficiaries,
and the general public who may find this community interesting. This site
has many parts, reflective of the broad variety of groups using technology
for conservation, research and social change, and the many ways maps and
geography affect what we do.
For more information, see:
ESRI Conservation Program Charter PDF
(ESRI Tech Papers Site
Date: November 1995, 246 KB / 25 pages.)
About this site:
"Conservation/Geography" is the
name we've given to all the ways that people are using computers, maps
and spatial data for to protect nature and change society. The name emphasizes
what people are doing with these tools rather than the tools
themselves. "Conservation GIS" is a name commonly given to all
the GIS tools, techniques and methods used in Conservation, emphasizing
the tools themselves. This web site is called made possible by the contributions
and support of thousands of "Conservation Geography" groups
worldwide and we sincerely thank all of them for their dedication and
hard work. Addresses are provided as much as possible so that you can
contact the groups you read about to offer help. Email addresses are scrambled
where possible so that "spam" (junk email) programs cannot automatically
read them. Several methods are used depending on when the link was added,
volunteer help available, and any specific requests:
- Replace "@" and "." with "at" and "dot"
- help@me.com becomes: help at me dot com
- Insert dummy characters like %20, or "email:" - help@me.com
becomes: help%20@me.com
Spam or junk email varies as a problem. Many folks have
had their unscrambled email addresses published on our site for 3 years
and have never gotten spam. I have my email address published in about
1000 places and I get about 3 spams a day out of 50 emails. If spam is
a problem for you and you want your email address scrambled here just
let us know at ecp at esri dot com.
What Happened to the Old ECP Site?
The old site is available still at www.esri.com.
It will be kept for compatibility purposes but it's links and reports
will no longer be maintained and its big slow pages will still be there.
For best results you will need to check this main site.
Site Map
Conservation/Geography Main Page
- Stories: Feature Stories on Conservation/Geography
- Tribal GIS
- Society: the Society for Conservation GIS
- Earth: Access to the Conservation/Geography groups worldwide
- Resarch: Conservation/Geography Papers
- GIS Grants: The Conservation Technology Support Program
- ESRI Grants: The ESRI Conservation Program
- News
- Help
How to Contact Us:
Charles Convis
ESRI Conservation Program
380 New York St.
Redlands, CA, 92373
Tel: (909) 793-2853 x2488
Fax: (909) 793-5953
Email: ecp@esri.com
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