Title
Chapter Title: Remote sensing for biodiversity conservation of the Albertine Rift in Eastern Africa
Book Title: Remote Sensing of Protected Lands
Author(s)
Ayebare, S.;Moyer, D.;Plumptre, A.J.;Wang, Y.
Published
2012
Abstract
In this chapter, we describe how aerial imagery acquired using the
EnsoMOSAIC mapping system is being used to support biodiversity conservation in Madagascar, and Eastern and Southern Africa with a focus on the Albertine Rift. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Flight Program supports conservation projects in Madagascar, and Eastern and Southern Africa through aerial image acquisition and processing. The imagery acquired has been used to map threats to biodiversity, to develop land-use plans for protected area management, to measure vegetation cover and vegetation dynamics. Major threats to biodiversity conservation in the Albertine Rift are increasing human population, civil strife, and industrialization. These have led to large-scale land-use and land-cover change in the region. There has been a tremendous increase in the numbers of people leading to increased pressures on the natural resource base around protected areas. With the conversion of buffer zones to agricultural activities and subsequent competition between people and wild animals for the same resources, there has been an increase in human–wildlife conflict.
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