Presentation

Five Ways How Geospatial Technologies are Transforming Conservation in Practice

Lilian Pintea Vice President, Conservation Science the Jane Goodall Institute [email protected] Photo: Launching an UAV in Thcimpounga Source: Jeff Kerby

the Jane Goodall Institute’s 30-year Mission Goal: To protect with partners 85% of chimpanzees and their habitats in Africa

Vision: A viable, diverse and stable population of chimpanzees living in peaceful coexistence with human communities

Forest conversion to farmland

Threats

• Primary threats are habitat destruction and degradation along with illegal bushmeat hunting, illegal pet trade and disease. • Approximately 70% of chimpanzee tropical forest habitat is threatened by infrastructure development and land use change (Nellemen & Newton 2002). Illegal and commercial logging

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1. Empowering communities to improve land use planning

Combining science and technology with the local knowledge

Gombe National Park

Conservation core area defined by CAP

Conservation core area defined by CAP Village boundaries

Conservation core area defined by CAP Village boundaries & Village Forest Reserves established by land use plans

Conservation core area defined by CAP Village boundaries & Village Forest Reserves established by land use plans

Conservation core area defined by CAP Village boundaries & Village Forest Reserves established by land use plans

Conservation core area defined by CAP Village boundaries & Village Forest Reserves established by land use plans

Conservation core area defined by CAP Village boundaries & Village Forest Reserves established by land use plans

Village land use plans established individually for a coordinated result

2. Enabling communities and rangers to monitor forest and wildlife

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Kigalye Village Forest Monitor

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June, 2005

Kigalye Village Forest Reserve

June, 2013

Kigalye Village Forest Reserve

Kagongo Village Forest Reserve May, 2005

Kagongo Village Forest Reserve June , 2013

Quadcopter UAV in Kigalye village, Tanzania

Tchimpounga Nature Reserve, Republic of the Congo

Chimpanzee nests from UAV in Tanzania Source: Conservation Drones, Ugalla Primate Project and the Jane Goodall Institute

Chimpanzee nests from UAV in Tanzania Source: Conservation Drones, Ugalla Primate Project and the Jane Goodall Institute

3. From Monitoring to Action: Forest Watcher Mobile App

Forest Watcher mobile app: Enabling local stakeholders with limited and occasional Internet connectivity to receive and groundtruth deforestation alerts from Global Forest Watch.

Private Forest Owner Associations: collectively manage and negotiate for benefits, REDD+ and other payments for ecosystem services.

FORMA bi-weekly Deforestation alerts from MODIS satellites (points)

FORMA bi-weekly deforestation alerts from MODIS satellites (points)

500 x 500 meter pixels

Imagery QuickBird: January 2012

Deforestation alerts: 2012-2013

Field validation: April 2014

4. From the ground to the cloud and back to decisions Field data collected by communities and rangers

Science & Technology Partners (data analysis, models, tools …)

Cloud

Dashboards for decision-makers in low bandwidth environments to visualize crowdsourced data from mobile collections

Monitoring and Forecasting Chimpanzee Habitat Health in Africa to Inform Conservation Actions, Strategies, and Measure Success Lilian Pintea1, Samuel Jantz2 , Janet Nackoney2, Matthew Hansen2 1 The

Jane Goodall Institute, Vienna, VA, USA, 2 Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

Mapping Chimpanzee Habitat Health

• Remote sensing and cloud computing enable the use of satellite observations to provide a synoptic view of habitats at fine spatial and temporal resolutions that are locally relevant and consistent across the entire chimpanzee range in Africa. • With support from NASA’s Applied Sciences Ecological Forecasting Program, JGI and UMD are developing an operational Decision Support System (DSS) to monitor chimpanzee habitat health.

Developing a Decision Support System (DSS)

• The system integrates Earth observations from 30-meter resolution Landsat data with a species-specific habitat model and a model forecasting future land use change, enhanced by crowd-sourced field data collected by local communities and rangers using the Open Data Kit app and Android mobile smartphones and tablets. • Input data and the final DSS will be hosted on the Google Cloud. A user-friendly web interface using Google Earth Engine API will be developed for DSS use and maintance.

5. Enabling collaboration and data sharing

Local communities and Governments of Tanzania, DRC, Uganda and Republic of Congo

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