The Nature Conservancy's new Atlas of Global Conservation

Jonathan Hoekstra, director of The Nature Conservancy's global Climate Change Team, and Jennifer Molnar, a senior scientist for the Conservancy, will speak at Seattle's Town Hall on Thursday, June 17, at 7 p.m.

Both are available for interviews this week before the presentation.

They'll be presenting the Conservancy's new Atlas of Global Conservation, a groundbreaking and visually stunning new book that goes far beyond the traditional atlas, providing the first ever in-depth picture of the Earth’s animals, plants and habitats—and the changes and challenges each faces.

No one has ever tried to collect everything we know about our natural habitats on planet Earth – until now.

Pick up a traditional atlas, and you’ll find data on political boundaries, mountains, and national capitals. But what if you need the salt-marsh capital of the world, or the epicenters of bird diversity? Want to see where the glaciers are disappearing most rapidly, or where the kelp forests are most important for nurturing ocean life? This atlas has it all.

Hoekstra and Molnar were the lead editors on this effort which has brought together all this information for the very first time.

The Atlas also has a really wonderful multimedia online component – http://nature.org/maps - there are downloadable maps there that everyone can play with.

And you can find details about the Town Hall presentation at http://www.townhallseattle.org/calendar.cfm?trumbaEmbed=date%3D20100617

Robin Stanton
media relations/Washington
The Nature Conservancy
1917 First Ave.
Seattle, WA 98101
 
(206) 436-6274
cell - (425) 478-5641

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