That’s why conservationists have teamed up with NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and Google Earth Engine to create a new real-time monitoring system for tiger habitats.
“(Tiger landscapes) are also producing clean water and helping sequester carbon,” he says.
The original iteration, called the “tiger conservation unit analysis” was produced in the late 1990s, and the second, TCL 2.0, in 2006.
A map of the six categories of Tiger Conservation Landscapes on 1 January 2020, from the study published in Frontiers.
“I don’t think people were cognizant about the amount of habitat that’s in this restoration landscape category, or about how much habitat is actually available for tigers that’s unoccupied,” he says.
Persons:
Eric Sanderson, Sanderson, “, ”
Organizations:
CNN, NASA, European Space Agency, ESA, Conservation Science, Tiger Conservation, Wildlife Conservation Society
Locations:
Russian, Sumatra, Java, Bali ., Assam, India, Tiger