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CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT USING INTEGRATED MIST-GIS IN CAMBODIA PROTECTED AREAS

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT USING INTEGRATED MIST-GIS IN CAMBODIA PROTECTED AREAS. By Sorn Pheakdey, MIST-GIS Database and Training Officer WCS Cambodia Program. ESRI User Conference San Diego, California, USA June 2007. pheakdey.sorn@gmail.com. Presentation Outline.

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CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT USING INTEGRATED MIST-GIS IN CAMBODIA PROTECTED AREAS

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  1. CONSERVATION MANAGEMENTUSING INTEGRATED MIST-GIS IN CAMBODIA PROTECTED AREAS By Sorn Pheakdey, MIST-GIS Database and Training Officer WCS Cambodia Program ESRI User Conference San Diego, California, USA June 2007 pheakdey.sorn@gmail.com

  2. Presentation Outline • Protected Area in Cambodia • Protected Area Management in Cambodia • What is MIST-GIS? • How can MIST help in Protected Area Management? • MIST Advantages and Disadvantages! • Conclusion

  3. Where is Cambodia?

  4. Protected Area in Cambodia *** Covers 47,845Km2or about 26.3% of Cambodia’s land territory

  5. The Species Richness of Wildlife in Cambodia

  6. Protected Area Management in Cambodia Successful Protected Area Management in Cambodia requires: • Research • Law enforcement patrols • Working with local communities • Cooperating Managers need good information about the site and what is happening to inform decisions !!! MIST-GIS

  7. What is MIST-GIS? • A spatial Management Information System (Computer Software link between Database and GIS) • Undergoing development by Ecological Software Solutions since 1997 initially for UWA as part of a GTZ project (http://www.ecostats.com/software/mist) • Designed to: • Provide a simple data entry facility • Store this data • Provide simple, easy to understand reports and maps to help decision-making for protected areas management

  8. Historical use of MIST in Cambodia • Originally adapted for Cambodia by Ministry of Environment – Biodiversity and Protected Areas Management Project since 2003. • Ministry of Environment has recently adopted the use of Ranger-Based Data Collection (and MIST-GIS as a tool to analyses the data). • Now used in 8 protected areas in Cambodia

  9. MIST-GIS Used by WCS Cambodia Program - Patrol data - Checkpoint Patrols data - Wildlife Research - Occasional Observations WCS have used MIST-GIS for:

  10. MIST-GIS How do we implement MIST-GIS? Operation of MIST-GIS requires the following steps: • Create a MIST-GIS Database; • Establish Management teams; • Define the Conservation Management Sector; • Provide appropriate equipment; • MIST database training; and • Law Enforcement Staff training.

  11. How can MIST help Protected Area management? MIST-GIS will not make the decisions for you! • However it will allow you to get quickly & easily access the essential up to date informationabout what happen in Protected Area, especially biodiversity and human activities trend in the area; and • Help manager to make the right decision, plan protection measure, plan the future conservation effort to sustain the conservation project to reach the conservation Goal and Vision.

  12. MIST-GIS GPS Reports MIST-GIS DATA FORM Maps Converting Data into Information DATA INFORMATION

  13. Standard Output Produced By MIST-GIS • Patrol coverage (areas patrolled shown in 1 km² grid cells) • Distribution and number of illegal activities • Distribution and numbers of key wildlife species • Information on patrols (performance indicators) • Illegal activities (indices and numbers) • Key wildlife species (indices, numbers) Maps Reports

  14. Patrol Effort Done by Conservation Patrol Team

  15. Illegal Human Activities Recorded

  16. Asian Elephant Recorded in MIST-GIS

  17. Conservation Ranger Report General information on Patrols Information for each staff participating in patrols

  18. Human Activities Recorded in March 2007

  19. Key Wildlife Species Recorded in March 2007

  20. MIST Advantages and Disadvantages! Advantages ! Disadvantages ! • Fast and accurate data entry • data download (from GPS) • use of look-up lists and tick boxes for observations • avoid “type-in” mistakes • User-friendly, easily accessible and easy to maintain and up-date database • Easy to use, flexible and powerful tool to improve the effectiveness of management through access to up-to-date information • Currently only available in English language • Data storage and reports can lack detail required by managers, e.g. description of events at particular sites • Doesn’t include sources of information not collected during patrols or surveys e.g. interview reports

  21. Conclusion! MIST-GIS will not make the decisions for you! However it will allow you to get quickly & easily access the essential information you need to make the right decisions. Examples: • Regular up-to-date data on what is happening in the PA • Identify areas requiring a management interventions • Identify core wildlife areas • Plan next months activities • How efficient your patrol teams are • Long-term trends in management activity and wildlife

  22. Acknowledgments • Wildlife Conservation Society, Cambodia Program • Environmental System Research Institute (ESRI), and • Special thanks to SCGIS for granting me the great chance to be here.

  23. Thank you very much indeed for your attention !

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