I am the creator of Invasipedia and am its original architect. I did this when I worked for The Nature Conservancy–I was the Communications Manager for the Conservancy's Global Invasive Species Team. Before it was defunded and disbanded in March 2009, the Team's job was to encourage the best practices we could to most affectively abate the threats posed by invasives. And we did a damned good job!

We worked first and foremost within The Nature Conservancy, but we of course worked closely with partner organizations. Dealing with invasives means you must think outside borders, either organizational or political! In order to ensure that invasive species do not prevent achievement of TNC's 2015 goal, the Global Invasive Species Team worked to accomplish two primary goals:

1. Prevent invasions and the spread of invaders at the national and international scale–this brings the biggest bang for the buck when dealing with new or potential invaders.
2. Help build the capacity of The Conservancy's Regions, country and state programs to assess, prevent, rapidly detect and control priority invasive species threats to conservation targets and ecosystems.

Now that the team no longer exists, I have less time to play with Invasipedia, but I hope that it continues to survives past my tenure. Invasipedia is a crucially useful idea–it is your responsibility to make it work!

You can contact me at barry(at)sarracenia.com.