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About Us
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About the CDCs NatureServe Canada includes eight independent conservation data centres (CDCs) covering all ten provinces and the Yukon Territory. CDCs conduct biological inventories to find and document populations of rare species, study and classify ecological communities, analyze critical conservation issues, provide customized information products and conservation services, and make their data widely available to the public via the Internet. Each CDC serves as a clearinghouse for reliable and current scientific information about plants, animals, and ecological communities within its respective jurisdiction. The staff of CDCs include expert field biologists, ecologists, GIS specialists, and data managers. (For complete staff listings, see the Network Staff Directory). CDCs use their scientific and data management expertise to serve the conservation information needs of government, corporations, researchers, conservation groups, and the public. The use of consistent standards and methods for biological inventory and information management allows data from each CDC to be combined and analyzed at regional and national scales. The conservation data centres were established beginning in 1988 by a partnership among The Nature Conservancy, the Nature Conservancy of Canada, and provincial governments. Each CDC represents a single province or territory, with the exception of the Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre, which represents the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador. Together the eight CDCs now comprise the NatureServe Canada network. Canadian Conservation Data Centres
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