Abstract
Implications of the Human Footprint for People, Tigers, and Other Wildlife Track: Ecology and Conservation Author(s): Eric Sanderson, Gillian Woolmer, Gosia Bryja, Justina Ray Headquartered at New York City's Bronx Zoo, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) works to save wildlife and wild lands throughout the world. Since WCS recognizes that human activities profoundly affect landscape dynamics, the human footprint map has been used in WCS's research as a proxy for anthropogenic impact on the land surface. WCS uses GIS tools to advance the understanding of the human footprint through exploring its links with other measures of biological and human well being including the identification of suitable tiger habitat in setting conservation priorities for tigers, examining the patterns of species range collapse, predicting the effects of increased human pressure on hornbill habitats, and evaluating the spatial relationships between the Human Footprint and socio-economic indicators such as human poverty and health indices. WCS believes that these and other similar analyses will guide future conservation efforts and help provide solutions to allow people and wildlife to co-exist. Eric Sanderson Wildlife Conservation Society International Conservation 2300 Southern Blvd Bronx , NY 10460 US Phone: 718-220-6825 E-mail: esanderson@wcs.org Gillian Woolmer Wildlife Conservation Society 720 Spadina Ave Toronto , Ontario M5S 2T9 CA Phone: 416-850-9038 E-mail: gwoolmer@wcs.org Gosia Bryja Wildlife Conservation Society International Conservation 2300 Southern Blvd Bronx , NY 10460 US Phone: 718-220-5156 E-mail: gbryja@wcs.org Justina Ray Wildlife Conservation Society 720 Spadina Ave Toronto M5S 2T9 CA Phone: 416-850-9038 E-mail: jray@wcs.org |
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