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Valuing Visitor Access To Forested Areas And Exploring Willingness To Pay For Forest Conservation And Restoration Financethe Case Of Small Island Developing State Of Mauritius, Pricila Iranah, Pankaj Lal, Bernabas T. Wolde, Pralhad Burli
Valuing Visitor Access To Forested Areas And Exploring Willingness To Pay For Forest Conservation And Restoration Financethe Case Of Small Island Developing State Of Mauritius, Pricila Iranah, Pankaj Lal, Bernabas T. Wolde, Pralhad Burli
Department of Earth and Environmental Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
Small island developing states share as common constraints their small size, geographical dispersion, greater vulnerability to rapid and drastic environmental change, and limited administrative and technical resources. Within these, they have to cater for urban and agricultural areas, as well as enough natural landscape for ecosystem services. Funding for conservation of forest ecosystems on these islands has received relatively less attention and national park systems are chronically underfunded. We used Mauritius as a case study to investigate the willingness to pay for conservation of state and privately owned forests. It is part of a biodiversity hotspot with highly threatened forest …
Using Drones To Generate New Data For Conservation Insights, Paul Lorah, Alice Ready, Emma Rinn
Using Drones To Generate New Data For Conservation Insights, Paul Lorah, Alice Ready, Emma Rinn
International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research
Human impact on the environment is driving a decline in biodiversity that heightens the need for informed management of conservation lands. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, are an increasingly cost-effective tool for generating high-quality data used to map landscape features, analyze land cover change and assess the effectiveness of conservation efforts. Traditional sources of remotely sensed data such as satellites and aircraft can be costly, inflexible and unable to detect fine-scale surface variation. This paper explores the advantages (and challenges) of analyzing data collected by drones to generate useful conservation management insights. We focus on three key …