The Conservation GIS Reference project is an attempt to classify Conservation GIS workers & researchers, their projects, and the presentations they give into a single searchable database. It’s goal is to improve the ability of an interested practitioner working in a specific area of conservation GIS to discover and learn more about that area and their peers. Normally one would do a “literature search” looking for papers related to the chosen problem. This project is more of a “people search”. Conservation GIS workers often tend to remain interested in the same issues for a long time, and their papers tend to