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Information on Conservation Geography grant programs, scholarships, and other sources of free help. In hopes of building our GIS capability to support nature conservation in Nepal, we have submitted a grant proposal to the Danish Embassy in Kathmandu requesting additional support for long-term biodiversity monitoring, including GIS technology.
The Langtang ecotourism staff have completed their planning process and intend to incorporate GIS analysis of tourism effects and GIS maps to encourage responsible tourism during the latter half of Pant Institute, which has extensive GIS capabilities.
Our project site has recently set up its own GIS and remote sensing lab. The lab is staffed by two outstanding scientists, both with ArcInfo experience: Dr. Rai Ph. Geography and Mr. Krishna M. Earth Resources Technology. Through G. A snow cover characterization of the upper morphogenetic regions of the Teesta River is also underway. Planned applications include site development plans for tourist destinations, to minimize negative environmental impacts and maximize local economic returns.
This database is being used by park managers ethnic Tibetans in the Qomolangma Nature Preserve for land and resource planning. Coverages include core nature zones, buffer zones, periphery zones, roads, vegetation type, lakes, rivers, glaciers, per capita income by county, agricultural production, grazing land, and human settlements.
He is cooperating with the Snow Leopard Trust and the National Biological Service to produce maps of Tibetan wildlife ranges and habitats. These maps are intended for use by Qomolangma Nature Preserve personnel.
He is now in the field with his Tibetan and Chinese colleagues, providing training and gathering ground-truth data for his GIS. Huascaran National Park has been practicing "manual GIS", with an excellent cartographer and volumes of mylar. With the assistance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, we hope in the next year to gradually develop more modern GIS facilities.
The Pacific Southwest Region Experimental Station in Arcata, California, known as the Redwood Sciences Lab, generously shared their scientific literature and data and participated in peer review. The John Muir Institute at U. Davis provided important data from current research in the Navarro River watershed. Students, researchers and staff, under the direction of Dr.
Michael Johnson, also provided insight regarding fisheries habitat conditions. Our second accomplishment of significance is the production of large format plots using the HP DesignJet C Plotter to aid in our field work in South America.
We are working in conjunction with Oxfam America to create a geographical database of forest cover and a description of land and vegetation cover for the purpose of developing a baseline estimate of forest biomass. The Oxfam project partners have been working for several years on establishing legal tenure for indigenous territories located in tropical forest regions within Bolivia and Peru, and the HP equipment has been vital for producing maps to aid in this work.
Map resources of this type are very highly valued by forest managers and researchers in tropical forest regions, where useful base maps are often badly outdated or nonexistent. In our various research sites in Brazil, our scientists find that these compelling large-format plots are a tremendous aid in their work. Several images or plots were taken to Acre in June by Dr. Foster Brown, a geochemist.
There they are being used in classroom exercises with university students and members of the military, and in the field with rubber tapper families for the delineation of traditional plot boundaries and forest trails. They are extensively used for field-checking of vegetation cover, as well.
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