2019
1 A Message from NatureServe’s President 2 Measuring Conservation Progress 3 Fighting Fire with Science 4 Around the NatureServe Network 5 NatureServe by the Numbers 6 Supporters & Business Partners NatureServe 2550 South Clark Street, Suite 930, Arlington, VA 22202 A Message from NatureServe’s President
Dear Friends of NatureServe, I want to thank you for your generous support. I know you are receiving our 2019 Annual Report during the COVID-19 pandemic and hope that you are healthy and safe. During this unprecedented time, we have all learned more about the connection between public health and biodiversity. With this in mind, we should reflect on the countless benefits that healthy ecosystems and rich biodiversity provide us and take action to continue to protect nature. Modern medicine has depended on discoveries from the natural world since the 18th century and we continue to rely on plants and other organisms as sources for healing. Our connection to the natural world is indeed precious. With your continued support, NatureServe will continue to protect our planet’s biodiversity and thereby promote our shared health and well-being. COVID-19 Update COVID-19
For those of us working in conservation, the news can be conservation. We have deep relationships with some of the biggest depressing at times. The more we learn, the worse the threats technology companies on the planet, all of whom want to bring their to biodiversity seem to get, including climate change, habitat technology to bear on solutions for saving species and ecosystems. degradation, and invasive species. The obstacles to saving native Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, SAS, and Esri have all made large species from extinction and preserving ecosystems keep growing. investments in NatureServe, and big announcements about the But at NatureServe, we are eternal optimists. We see opportunities outcomes of these relationships are coming soon. to bring together data, science, and technology to help solve one NatureServe is driven by three key questions—what is it? where is of the most important environmental challenges of our time, it? and how is it doing?—which allow us to address a crucial fourth the mass extinction of untold numbers of species. That’s why we question—what can we do to help? One of the tools most used develop the information, tools, and expertise needed to change by our partners to find answers to these questions is NatureServe the trajectory of extinction and the loss of ecosystems. Explorer, the web-based access point to our data on the nearly In 2019, NatureServe released iMapInvasives, a new mobile- 100,000 species and ecosystems we track. With support from enabled tool developed in collaboration with our Network several donors, including Environment and Climate Change Canada, partners, which is being used across the country to help find, we have just relaunched Explorer with the newest techno-wizardry identify, and manage invasive species, one of the greatest threats in the background that allows users to find exactly the information to biodiversity, human health, and economic prosperity. they seek. Also last year, we released the findings of our Map of Biodiversity Despite the existential crises around us, I am so excited to be Importance, a huge undertaking involving partners from across at NatureServe at this critical time for the organization. With so our Network. This effort utilized the latest in machine learning many great things happening here, I encourage you to subscribe with on-the-ground science to create predictive models of suitable to our electronic updates, visit our website often, and donate to habitat for the most endangered species in the United States. NatureServe to help us help the planet. These models provide unparalleled information on where the most at-risk species are likely found, and the maps created from them can point the way to strategies for preventing extinction. By giving us more accurate information on where species may be, these models also give us more information needed to reduce conflict in conservation. As nature’s tech firm, NatureServe works at the cutting edge Sean O’Brien, Ph.D. of science and technology to support decision-making in President & CEO
Board of Directors Strategic Advisors Council James Brumm, Chair Carolyn Hendricks J. Douglas Ripley* Tracy Austin Sherry Huber Nancy Mathews Jonathan Wilfong Nicole Firlotte, Vice Chair Lucas Joppa Alberto Székely Martha Boudreau Ed Kfoury Kimberly Nelson Carol Wise Sabra Tonn, Vice Chair Urban Lehner John Trezise Jack Dangermond Gary Knight Christopher Parker Sayles Braga, Treasurer Bryce Maxell** Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio Jim Geringer Mary Ann Lawler Rick Ridgeway Jane Breckinridge, Secretary Steven P. Quarles Andrew Kaiser Thomas E. Lovejoy Tom Smith *Former Board Member DJ Evans* Dick Raines* **New Board Member Paul Hagen Larry Master Nancy Weiss
About the Cover: Trillium georgianum was selected to honor the memory of Tom Patrick, the Georgia Wildlife Conservation Section's first botanist and the foremost expert on the Trillium species of Georgia. As an integral member of the NatureServe Network, Tom had an unwavering commitment to the conservation of native plants and ecosystems.Trillium species are iconic wildflowers of spring, and while many are common, some, likeT. georgianum, are at risk. The name Trillium is derived from the numerous "threes" the genus exhibits: three leaves, three sepals, and three petals. Look for updated conservation information on all North American Trillium species in NatureServe Explorer. Cover photo by Jim Fowler; Georgia Dwarf Trillium (Trillium georgianum), NatureServe Global Status: Critically Imperiled (G1). 1 Measuring Conservation Progress
Vicuña (Vicugna vicugna). Photo by Walter Wust, ACCA-Conservación Amazónica. Last year, in collaboration with the to trustworthy, scalable biodiversity data and 2012. The finer-scale country map UN Environment World Conservation that is used to track and report on national shows which areas have contributed most Monitoring Centre and the global and global progress. Using the latest to those improvements, and the regional Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (BIP), advances in information technology and map compares Peru’s progress to other NatureServe launched the BIP Dashboard, data visualization, the Dashboard’s dynamic countries. a game-changing, interactive online tool map allows users to customize indicator that visualizes trends over time in critical visualizations at any scale—globally, Also in the past year, NatureServe began indicators of biodiversity and ecosystem nationally, within specific watersheds—with working with partners in Southeast Asia health. the click of a button. Users can export data and the Tropical Andes to apply our and graphs for reporting under multilateral visualization tools and technology to create Indicators, or evidence-based environmental agreements like the new dashboards for these regions. These measurements, allow us to assess the Convention on Biological Diversity. In fact, dashboards help decision-makers visualize health and integrity of biodiversity and many nations used the Dashboard last year trends and achievements in user-friendly identify trends across time and space. For to help prepare their national status reports formats to facilitate more forward-looking, many years, NatureServe’s Biodiversity to the Convention. responsible conservation action. Indicators Program has advised users at multiple levels—from global policy forums Indicators included in the BIP Dashboard 2020 promises to be a busy and exciting year such as the Convention on Biological help us measure, monitor, and predict for the Biodiversity Indicators Program. We Diversity, to national and regional pressures or threats to biodiversity and have extended our partnership with the governments, to organizations working ecosystem health. They also inform and World Conservation Monitoring Centre and at a local scale—on how best to use data- evaluate our conservation efforts and are working to develop a new global Target driven, scientific indicators to measure measure the benefits of those actions to Tracker that will equip policy-makers with progress toward their conservation human communities. The Protected Area information about the latest trends and milestones and targets. Representativeness Index, for example, emerging issues to inform more effective measures the degree to which a protected and timely conservation action. The Target Unfortunately, a recent United Nations area adequately encompasses the full Tracker will directly serve the next phase report concluded that we are not yet diversity of habitats and ecosystems in a of the Convention on Biological Diversity, on track to meet the biodiversity goals given region, helping planners select new transforming the current backward-looking for conserving nature and achieving proposed areas or modify the borders of reporting and assessment process to a sustainability set for 2020 and beyond. existing ones. The trend line graph below continuous, forward-looking process that improves transparency and produces The BIP Dashboard is being actively used shows that between 2000 and 2016, Peru better outcomes for biodiversity. by policy-makers around the world to greatly improved the degree to which its adjust course to meet those goals. The protected areas represent the nation’s Dashboard provides a central access point biodiversity, with the largest gains in 2010 e
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The BIP Dashboard offers users many options for visualizing a given indicator. Both the graph and the map above depict change in the Protected Area Representativeness Index, which measures the degree to which protected lands represent the biodiversity of a region. The graph shows change over time for the country of Peru, while the map compares improvements in different areas. Darker blues indicate greater improvements, showing that Peru has had the greatest gains in the region. The inset map shows that within Peru, the greatest gains have been in the Andes and Amazon rainforest, areas rich in biodiversity. Data source: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
2 LAC Spotlight Fighting Fire with Science
Photo by Carlos Pinto, Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza.
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Although fires set by humans to clear San Rafael 222.621 to the negative effects of both climate 209.862 land for agriculture and manage pasturelands San José de Chiquitos change and deforestation on ecosystems Through its community monitoring and fire San José de Chiquitos 209.862 Carmen Rivero Tórrez 157.611 have been common in Bolivia for decades, a response program, FAN works with Bolivia’s Burned area and res vital to sustaining biodiversity and humanity. Carmen Rivero Tórrez 157.611 January through November 2019 Burned area and res perfect storm of factors converged last year communities to promoteRoboré best practices for 157.382 Less widely reported were the devastating Roboré 157.382 January through November 2019 131.707 Area burned through August to intensify the destruction. 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Recent national leadersBolivia use this information to coordinate Network program Fundación Amigos de la Area burned through September 15 Santa Cruz Area burned through September 25 millones policies and high demand from foreign Bolivia Naturaleza (FAN) works in Bolivia to monitor and plan10 the controlled burns vital+6,4 to their Millions of acres burned Santa Cruz Hectáreas quemadas de economiesArea incentivizedburned through expansion September of 25 the millones Area burned through October 10 and prevent forest fires and deforestation agricultural livelihoods in an environmentally 10 Millions of acres burned bosques y pastizales Hectáreas6,4 quemadas de Area burned through November 10 agriculturalArea frontier, burned throughwhich increased October 10the use responsible way. FAN’s efforts have not in some of the world’s most overlooked, bosques y pastizales of slash and burn techniques to clear land. In only increased community involvement, 6,4 biodiversity-rich ecosystems.Equivalente a Area burned through November 10 10.3 combination, these factors created not3,5 just engagement, and understanding of fire risks, 9.4 todo el Dpto. Equivalente a 10.3 Since 2011, FAN has utilized its SATRIFO more fires, but hotter, more extensive fires but have empowered communities to invest 3,5 9.4 REFERENCES de Pando todo el Dpto. 3.7 Department Capital (Monitoring and Early Alert System for Forest that burned out of control. in solutions that balance the economic needs REFERENCES de Pando 3.7 City Limit Fire Risks) program to monitor and report of ranchers and farmers with the preservation The region most affected inDepartment 2019 Capitalwas Santa Department Limit on forest fires in Bolivia, providing local of Bolivia’s unique biodiversity. Cruz, where 65% of Bolivia'sCity burned Limit acreage Forest stakeholders with information about active Department LimitPromedio Récord histórico 2019 Annual Previous Record New Record was concentrated. Santa Cruz is home to anualthe “At NatureServe,2010 we are working to replicate Non-Forest fires,Super cie imminent afectada risks, por and incendios historical forestalestrends. Average 2010 2019 Forest world’s most extensive and best preserved these efforts in other regions by helping The area affected by fires in Santa Cruz in 2019Promedio Récord histórico 2019 Annual Previous Record New Record “At FAN, we decided to make our science anual 2010 Non-Forest Super cie afectada por incendios forestales was the largest on record. Average 2010 2019 Santatropical Cruz dry forest, the Chiquitania, an FAN share its experience and by building moreBolivia relevant to society by providing local The area affected by fires in Santa Cruz in 2019 ecosystem that supports as much biodiversity communities with interactive maps and IncendiostheBolivia human capital en áreas that will protegidas strengthen the ySanta territorios Cruz indíge- was the largest on record. as the Amazon but is much less understood. reports that are updated2 daily through a 1,9 networkAP Nal and ensure AP subnacional progress toward TIOC a more Santa Cruz, home to the Chiquitania tropical dry forest, millones ha millones ha Incendios en áreas protegidas y territorios indíge- Many of the 4,000 plant and 1,600 animal Áreas protegidas: free web-based de application, bosque allowing them de bosque sustainable world,” said Dr. Miguel Fernandez, experienced record-breaking fires in 2019. 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Sitio Ramsar: 1.961.649 ha 29% 12% 8 Sitios Ramsar afectados Humedales de importancia mundial: 0 1 2 3 4 5 Sitio Ramsar: 1.961.649 ha Super cie afectada por tipo de cobertura 8 Sitios Ramsar afectados 0 1 2 3 4 5 No bosque Super cie quemada en territorios indígenas con mayor Cerrado 1.851.078 Super cie quemada en áreas protegidasSuper cie con afectada mayor afectaciónpor tipo de cobertura Sabana 1.501.194 No bosque 23% 47% 25% Arbustal y/o matorral 451.610 27% 37% 38% Super cie quemada en territorios indígenas con mayor Cerrado 1.851.078 Super cie quemada en áreas protegidas con mayor afectación Abayoy 385.422 Sabana 1.501.194 Agropacuario 248.174 Arbustal y/o matorral 451.610 27% 37% 38% 23% 47% 25% © FUNDACIÓN AMIGOS DE LA NATURALEZA, 2019 Bosque Abayoy 385.422 Derecho intelectual: Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN) Bosque chiquitano 1.458.761 Agropacuario 248.174 Dirección: Bosque chiquitano-chaqueño 437.151 © FUNDACIÓN AMIGOS DE LA NATURALEZA, 2019 Bosque Km 7 1/2 Doble Vía a La Guardia Bosque amazónico 64.512 Tel: (591-3) 355-6800 Derecho intelectual: Fundación Amigos de la Naturaleza (FAN) Bosque chiquitano 1.458.761 Bosque chaqueño 28.390 Fax: (591-3) 354-7383 Dirección: Bosque chiquitano-chaqueño 437.151 E-mail: [email protected] Bosque chiquitano-amazónico 5778 www.fan-bo.org / http://incendios.fan-bo.org/Satrifo/ Km 7 1/2 Doble Vía a La Guardia ANMI San Matías Ñembi GuasuBosque amazónico Otuquis Monte Verde 64.512Lomerío Cavireño Tel: (591-3) 355-6800 Bosque boliviano-tucamano 659 798.521 ha 446.217 ha 390.314 ha 258.121 ha 143.052 ha 140.489 ha Bosque chaqueño 28.390 Fax: (591-3) 354-7383 0 500000 1000000 1500000 2000000 E-mail: [email protected] Bosque chiquitano-amazónico 5778 www.fan-bo.org / http://incendios.fan-bo.org/Satrifo/ ANMI San Matías Ñembi Guasu Otuquis Monte Verde Lomerío Cavireño Bosque boliviano-tucamano 659 798.521 ha 446.217 ha 390.314 ha 258.121 ha 143.052 ha 140.489 ha 0 500000 1000000 1500000 2000000 Around the The Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves, together with several partners, NatureServe Network collaborated to conserve the state's rarest orchids, including the southern lady's-slipper (Cypripedium kentuckiense), white fringeless orchid (Platanthera integrilabia), rose pogonia (Pogonia ophioglossoides), and small white lady's- slipper (Cypripedium candidum). Conservation actions included seed banking, genetic analysis, and mycorrhizal research to support propagation, with the ultimate goal of reintroduction into suitable habitat. These activities are key to safeguarding Kentucky's 43 orchid species, particularly since 30 species are of conservation concern at the global, national, or state level. Southern Lady's-Slipper (Cypripedium kentuckiense), NatureServe Global Status: Vulnerable (G3). Photo by Orchi.
Scientists from theMontana Natural Heritage Program, Natural Heritage New Mexico, and Nevada Natural Heritage Program coauthored a paper in Nature Climate Change on the factors that allow local populations of the American pika (Ochotona princeps) to adapt to climate change. Using NatureServe Network data on the locations of pika populations, the authors found that local geographical context is more important than genetic lineage in predicting responses to climate change—a surprising result because scientists usually invoke genetics to explain variation among populations. The Oregon Biodiversity Information Center, Montana Natural Heritage American Pika (Ochotona princeps), NatureServe Global Status: Secure (G5). Photo by Frédéric Program, Colorado Natural Heritage Program, and NatureServe ecologists Dulude-de Broin. collected data on vegetation and soils for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Assessment, Inventory, and Monitoring program. The NatureServe team collected To help prevent their extinction, the Wisconsin Natural Heritage Program worked data in northeastern California from 100 sample plots established to monitor fuel to establish new populations of rare plants and augment or reestablish existing ones. loads and post-wildfire vegetation response. These data help BLM understand They collected seeds from wild populations of three species listed as threatened under vegetation condition and make better decisions to conserve biodiversity on its the Endangered Species Act, and then planted the seedlings at new or former sites. lands. Fieldwork will continue through 2022. To increase genetic diversity, botanists hand-pollinated species such as the eastern Photo by Patrick McIntyre, NatureServe. prairie white-fringed orchid (Platanthera leucophaea) that suffer from inbreeding depression. The program also established a statewide citizen science initiative aimed at collecting data on rare plants. Most volunteers revisit known occurrences of rare species on public lands, but lucky volunteers have also discovered new populations.
Eastern Prairie White-Fringed Orchid (Platanthera leucophaea), NatureServe Global Status: Imperiled (G2). Photo by Joshua Mayer.
NatureServe, Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre, New York Natural Heritage Program, Vermont Natural Heritage Inventory, and Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife began to assess the conservation status of hundreds of Northeastern flower flies (family Syrphidae), important pollinators of native plants in eastern and northern forests and boreal tundra. Pictured at left is the black haireye (Psilota klymkoi), a newly described flower fly species that in 2019 was named for Atlantic Canada zoologist John Klymko, who first suggested it was a new species. Black Haireye (Psilota klymkoi), NatureServe Global Status: Not Ranked (GNR). Photo by John Klymko, Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre.
NatureServe coordinated the formation of the Americas-BON, a new regional The California Natural Diversity Database released a new management arm of the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network framework for its Spotted Owl Observations Database, which tracks both (GEO BON). GEO BON is a global leader working to improve the availability of the Northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina), a federally threatened biodiversity data to decision-makers in support of policy, and the Americas-BON species, and the California spotted owl (Strix occidentalis occidentalis), a will work collaboratively to facilitate data alignment between national and global California Species of Special Concern. In 2019, they updated 1,200 spotted owl efforts to improve outcomes for biodiversity worldwide. Director of Latin America sites and 200 activity centers based on new field data, and added another 9,000 and the Caribbean (LAC) Programs Dr. Miguel Fernandez and board member spotted owl records to the database. These data increase our understanding of and LAC Section Council member Dr. Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio organized the spotted owl distributions and inform environmental reviews of timber harvest coalition of governmental agencies, universities and research institutes, and non- and management plans that might impact the species. governmental organizations in 23 countries across the Americas. Northern Spotted Owl Strix( occidentalis caurina), NatureServe Global Status: Vulnerable (T3). Photo by Conservación Amazónica-ACCA. Photo by Emily Brouwer, National Park Service.
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