Application of GIS in wildlife management

1. Application of GIS in wildlife
management

2. Study Area:
India
Area = 32,87,263 km2
Total states = 29 states and 7 union territories
Stretch = 3214 km in N to S and 2933 km in E to W
Land frontier = 15200 km
Coastline = 7516
Location = India extends between latitudes 8o4'N and 37o6'N.
It is a country of the east with its landmass lying between
longitudes 68o7'E and 97o25'E.
Total Forest Area = 23.81% of total geographical area
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3. Protected Area of India
Nationals Park: 166
Tiger Reserves: 53
Wildlife sanctuaries: 442
Biosphere reserves: 18
Reserves forests
Coral reefs
Mangrove areas
Zoo
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4. GIS Supports
• Data availability for wildlife managers
• Facilities management
• Habitat assessment, management
• Population surveys and monitoring
• Wildlife management decision making
• Other research
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5. Contd…
• Applications development
• WMA Acquisition mapping
• Field support
• Open Lands Assessment
• Shallow Lakes management and monitoring
• Wildlife depredations logging and mapping
• Water control structures inventory and
• mapping
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6. Tiger Project
Launched in 1973 by GOI with the aims at
ensuring a viable population of Bengal Tigers in
their natural habitats and also to protect them from
extinction, and preserving areas of biological
importance as a natural heritage forever represented
as close as possible the diversity
of ecosystems across the tiger's distribution in the
country
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7. Data Analysis For Tiger Population
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8. Project Elephant
Project Elephant was launched in 1992 by
the Government of India to provide financial and
technical support of wildlife management efforts by
states for their free ranging populations of
wild Asian elephants.
25 Elephant Reserves (ERs) extending over about
58,000 square kilometres
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9. Data Analysis For Elephant Population
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10. My Steps in GIS project
• 1. Base map and Geo referencing
• 2. Creation of shape file
• 3. Digitization of map
• 4. Attribute data entry
• 5. Set layer properties
• 6. Spatial query
• 7. Output
• 8. Report
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11. 1. GEOREFERENCING
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14. 2. CREATING SHAPEFILE
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15. CREATING SHAPEFILE IN ARC CATALOG
1ST STEP
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16. 2ND STEP
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17. 3. DIGITIZATION OF MAP
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19. 4. ATTRIBUTE DATA ENTRY
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23. 5. SET LAYER PROPERTIES
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26. 6. SPATIAL QUERY
• 1. FOR ELEPHANT PROJECT
• 2. FOR TIGER PROJECT
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27. When population of elephant > 500 in 1993
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28. When population of elephant < 100 in 1993
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29. When population of elephant < 10 in 2012
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30. When population of Tiger >100 in 1972
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31. When population of Tiger >100 in 2008
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32. 7. OUTPUT
• 1. FOR ELEPHANT PROJECT
• 2. FOR TIGER PROJECT
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33. FOR ELEPHANT IN 1993
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34. FOR ELEPHANT 2012
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35. FOR TIGER IN 1972
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36. FOR TIGER IN 2008
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37. FOR ELEPHANT POPULATION
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38. FOR TIGER POPULATION
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39. FOR ELEPHANT POPULATION
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40. FOR TIGER POPULATION
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41. ELEPHANT POPULATION IN 1993
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42. ELEPHANT POPULATION IN 2012
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43. TIGER POPULATION IN 1972
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44. TIGER POPULATION IN 2008
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45. 8. REPORT
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46. FOR ELEPHANT PROJECT
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47. FOR TIGER PROJECT
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48. CONCLUSIONS
 In mostly states population of elephant is decrease from 1993 to
2012, but in Kerala, Jharkhand and population is increase.
 Tiger population is increase from 1972 to 2001 but now in 2011 tiger
population is very less.
 GIS is also used for calculation of wild animal.
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49. References
 www.gis.state.mn.us_Minutes_handouts_06_May_DNR_Wildlife_GIS.pdf
 http://www.indiastat.com/forestandwildlife/13/wildlife/296/populationofwilda
nimals19722011/450064/stats.aspx
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Tiger
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Elephant
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