The Nature Conservancy's Priority Conservation Areas

The Nature Conservancy has been a leader in spatial conservation planning for many years. The primary planning tool used by the Conservancy for landscape-scale conservation planning over the past decade has been Ecoregional Assessments. Our United States Ecoregional Assessments identify priority areas for conservation within the United States. This includes data from 67 Ecoregional Assessments, which identified over 9,000 conservation priority areas. Importantly, this dataset contains the conservation targets that we hope to conserve within these priority areas. Conservation targets include both species and habitat types (e.g. plant communities; ecosystems). Our dataset includes 8,507 unique species and 6,633 habitat...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Chihuahuan Desert, English, GIS, Madrean, Mojave Desert, All tags... Sonoran Desert, US, amphibian, assessment, biodiversity, bird, ecoregion, endangered, fish, grassland, invertebrate, mammal, map, plant, priority, rare, reptile, scrub, shrub, threatened, vegetation, wildlife, Fewer tags

Transboundary land cover dataset for the Sky Islands Ecoregion

This data layer was developed for use by regional conservation organizations and partners located in or adjacent to the Sky Islands region of the Southwest and to fill a key data gap, namely detailed, consistent, and project-relevant spatial datasets on land cover. These data emerged, in part, from a stakeholder-based process that involved the participation of multiple organizations, including Conservation Science Partners, Northern Arizona University, The Nature Conservancy, USGS, USFWS, Arizona Game and Fish Department, Borderlands Restoration, Sky Islands Alliance, Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, and Universidad de Hermosillo. Development of these data was generously supported by Wilburforce Foundation. We developed...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: GIS, Madrean Archipelago, agriculture, ecoregion, grassland, All tags... land cover, model, remote sensing, shrub/scrub, vegetation, wetland, Fewer tags

Environmental Conservation Online System

The Environmental Conservation Online System (ECOS) is a gateway web site that provides access to data systems in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and other government data sources. This central point of access assists Service personnel in managing data and information, and it provides public access to information from numerous Service databases. ECOS serves a variety of reports related to FWS Threatened and Endangered Species. A selection of our most popular reports is listed below. See the Species Reports for the complete list. Listed Species Summary All Threatened and Endangered Animals All Threatened and Endangered Plants Reclassified Species Delisted Species Obtaining an Official Species List:...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: GIS, ecoregion, endangered, map, ownership, All tags... protected area, rare, threatened, water, watershed, wetland, Fewer tags