Innovation Anthology #745:
The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute reports on the changing state of biodiversity in the province due to human activity that destroys habitat.
Jahan Kariyava manages the ABMI’s Geospatial Centre.
This Centre gathers information using remote sensing and aerial photographs.
JAHAN KEREYAVA: We map 86 anthropogenic features which then are characterized into 21 broader categories of human footprint, and those will include roads, seismic lines or harvested areas, or agricultural features or urban residential areas. ABMI recently produced a status of the human footprint in Alberta report, And it showed us actually that as of now, the total human footprint covers about 30 percent of the province of Alberta. And it changed from 1999. It grew actually 3 percent higher now. Agriculture is one of the largest human footprints whereas forestry is one of the fastest growing human footprint types.
Jahan Kariyeva says the GeoSpatial Centre can help predict future habitat and biodiversity loss related to industrial activity and climate change.
Thanks today to the ALBERTA BIODIVERSITY MONITORING INSTITUTE
FOR INNOVATION ANTHOLOGY
I’M CHERYL CROUCHER
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Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute
Program Date: 2015-12-31