Use of GIS to Identify Conservation Priorities in the Gulf of California, Mexico

Author: Ivan Eduardo Parra
Organization: WWF Gulf of California Program

Bahia de Bacochibampo s/n
CECARENA, ITESM Campus Guaymas
Guaymas, 85450
Sonora, Mexico

Phone: 52 (6) 221-1903
Fax: 52 (6) 221-1895
ivan_wwf@campus.gym.itesm.mx

Resources for conservation are scarce and so have become the resources to be protected. Sound planning to assign the resources in the right places has evolved as a need in conservation. In the Gulf of California, several conservation NGOs, such as World Wildlife Fund, Conservation International, and CECARENA, are working on the development of conservation planning at the ecoregional level, and GIS is playing a major role in getting data and analyzing conservation value. Assigning conservation priorities at this scale represents a great challenge. This paper is focused on the methodology to achieve it.