Big Data and Wildlife Conservation

Big Data and Wildlife Conservation

Dr Christopher [email protected]@leeds.ac.ukwww.katatrepsis.wordpress.com

27km

27km

Great crested newt(photo: Rainer Theuer)

European otter (photo: Bernard Landgraf) Great crested newt (photo: Rainer Theuer)

Lady’s slipper orchid (photo: Algirdas) Eurasian curlew (photo: Andreas Trepte)

Pyrenula dermatodes (photo: Robert Thompson)

Dark purple earth tongue (photo: Anders Janols)

Conservation organisations

Teaching and

research

Local tourist attractions

Government organisations

Private landowners

Yorkshire Dales Environment Network

(How) can we make use of big data to promote wildlife conservation in the Yorkshire Dales National Park?

What do we have?

Regional mapping (geology/climate)

Local mapping(very limited)

Some species distributions

Species distributions(very limited)

What do we need?

Data collection

QualityValidation

AccessCuration

Data analysis

Habitat suitability

Techniques are not user-friendly!

Data display

Decision-making

Software is not user-friendly!

Collection

DisplayAnalysis

(Hopefully) the end result:

Evidence-based

conservation