WCS has increasingly recognized the important role that spatial analyses can play in protecting wildlife and wild places. Conservation Support addresses the needs of our global staff by providing direct and remote technical assistance on GIS and remote sensing analysis, cartography, spatial database development, land cover change assessments, and online GIS development. Conservation Support has historically offered 1-2 week technical training courses; but in the interest of reaching a wider WCS audience for less money while lowering our carbon footprint, we have worked with our partners to develop an online conservation GIS course (available from http://conservationtraining.org) and other distance-learning options.