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IPS Conference 2006
Abstracts
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Abstract # 21:
Scheduled for Monday,
June 26, 2006
03:20 PM-03:40 PM:
Session 2 (Princess)
Symposium
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PRIORITIZING AND MONITORING GREAT APE POPULATIONS WITH SATELLITE IMAGERY AND GIS: THE CASE OF TANZANIA |
L. Pintea1, N. Laporte2, A. Plumptre3 and M. Leighton4
1The Jane Goodall Institute, 4245 N. Fairfax Drive, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 2Woods Hole Research Center, United States, 3Wildlife Conservation Society, Uganda, 4Great Ape World Heritage Species Project |
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| To be effective, conservation efforts must urgently identify, prioritize, and optimize actions and investments to protect the most important great ape populations. These priority populations should be monitored to evaluate the success of conservation actions and to create incentives for effective protection. Satellite Imagery and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are essential technologies to help achieve these objectives. However, these geospatial tools have to be matched to populations, habitats and human threats in specific geographic regions. In addition, to make them operational, human capacity, database and computer infrastructure need to be properly developed. In this presentation we will discuss the experience of applying satellite imagery and GIS to identify, map and monitor Eastern Chimpanzee populations, Pan troglodytes marungensis, in Tanzania. A vision of an interactive, collaborative, multiuser GIS using the ESRI “Enterprise GIS” model to coordinate, harmonize and support Great Apes conservation efforts will be presented. |
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Modified: 18 December 2005
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