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A few of our key partnerships with the private sector are described below. This selection is not intended to be exhaustive, but highlights a representative group of NatureServe's current partnerships

Sustainable Forestry Initiative
NatureServe and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), a sustainable forestry certification standard whose membership includes nearly all major timber companies in North America, are working together to protect imperiled species and forests of exceptional conservation value on industry lands. This agreement influences the management of a vast area—more than 60 million acres in the United States and Canada.

The SFI sought to strengthen its standards for forest certification by adopting an objective, science-based system for classifying rare species and ecosystems. In July 2002, the SFI began requiring members to use NatureServe's conservation status assessments to identify the most imperiled species and ecosystems found on their lands and to develop plans for protecting them. The species and communities to be protected are those ranked by NatureServe as critically imperiled (G1) or imperiled (G2).

ESRI
As a leading source of geographically-referenced information about biodiversity, NatureServe has formed a strategic partnership with ESRI the world's leading company for software used to manage geographic information. ESRI, NatureServe, and other partners are working together to develop GIS-based data management and decision-support tools for conservation that will include core features and functions needed by the conservation community. Central to this effort will be the development of a common conservation data model. (Download a draft of the data model on ESRI's website).

NatureServe and ESRI will also work in partnership to advance and develop systems designed to meet the special requirements of NatureServe and its member programs. ESRI will work with other organizations to develop similar tools that are built on the core data model and that meet a broader set of conservation data management and information needs.

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