Our collaboration with Intel Corporation stretches back more than 10 years and has produced conservation tools that harness Intel's technological prowess and CI's scientific expertise.

Intel has invented groundbreaking new technology that eliminates lead, and soon halogen, from the semiconductor manufacturing process. To celebrate the launch of their new lead-free processors, Intel gave out sunflowers – a unique species whose blossoms draw lead from the ground and leave healthier, more fertile soil behind – and called on all Second Life avatars to help sow a field of sunflowers at the foot of Intel Tower on Intel Island in the Second Life World. Intel donated real-world $1 to CI for each flower planted.

Past Collaboration:

• Intel is a member of the Climate, Community & Biodiversity Alliance, a group of companies and non-governmental organizations committed to developing tools to combat climate change, while contributing to biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.
• Intel supports the continual development of the award-winning Biodiversity Hotspots website, which is the most comprehensive collection of information about biodiversity hotspots available.
• Intel supported the development of "Investigate Biodiversity," an interactive web-based field guide for students and educators.

Since 1994, Intel has worked with CI to connect scientists and conservationists around the world by providing state-of-the-art IT tools and training to biosphere reserve managers worldwide, and by introducing conservation science to students through multimedia education.

For more information on Intel, please visit www.intel.com.