Abstract

SDI for Monitoring and Managing a World Biodiversity Hotspot
Track: Parks, Natural Reserves, Fisheries, and Wildlife Management
Authors: Fernando Sousa

The 1274 miles square of the Serra do Mar State Park in southeast Brazil is home of one of the biggest biodiversity hotspots in the World. Nowadays, in a brazilian growing economy we can see new issues for conservation arising - such as: big real estate pressures, impacts caused by new roads and new oil and gas infrastructure crossing the protected areas.
Putting a big network of cameratraps, young rangers with GPS units collecting biodiversity information in the field and using ArcGis Online for Organization as the integration and communication tool for the whole SDI was the solution that we are implementing to give agencies, managers, rangers, researchers and the citizens the opportunity to think about the land use, the best impact management techniques and to design better public policies and strategies to stablish inteligent public-private partnerships in conservation.