Making Conservation Easy

Talk that I gave at FEUP First Job 2012, in Porto, Portugal, about UNEP-WCMC and the work that we (the Informatics Programme) do there.

Transcript

1. Making  Conservation  Easy   Simão  Belchior  de  Castro  
2. Planet  Earth   8  November,   2012   2   FEUP  First  Job  2012  
3. Is  under  threat   •  Deforestation   •  Destruction  of  habitats   •  Overtrading  of  species   •  unProtected  areas   8  November,   2012   3   FEUP  First  Job  2012  
4. We  can  save  it   8  November,   2012   4   FEUP  First  Job  2012  
5. Data   8  November,   2012   5   FEUP  First  Job  2012   •  What  is  needed?   •  How  to  get  it?   •  What  to  do  with  it?  
6. Let’s  use  these  tools   •  National  Reporting   •  World  Database  of  Protected  Areas   •  Various  other  Databases   8  November,   2012   6   FEUP  First  Job  2012  
7. This  is  slow…   •  Too  much  reporting   •  Too  much  data   •  Too  few  curators   8  November,   2012   7   FEUP  First  Job  2012  
8. Go  Web!   •  Citizen  science   •  Centralized  repositories   •  Powerful  machines  to  process  the  data   8  November,   2012   8   FEUP  First  Job  2012  
9. I  guess  it  is  easy  then…  Not  quite   •  Projects   •  Get  people  and  institutions  involved   8  November,   2012   9   FEUP  First  Job  2012  
10. UNEP-­‐WCMC   •  Over  30  years  of  experience   •  Over  80  staff  members   •  UNEP’s  specialist  biodiversity   assessment  arm   •  Works  with  multiple  conventions  and   Countries   8  November,   2012   10   FEUP  First  Job  2012  
11. Informatics:  Technologies   8  November,   2012   11   FEUP  First  Job  2012  
12. Informatics:  Projects   8  November,   2012   12   FEUP  First  Job  2012  
13. Informatics:  Team   8  November,   2012   13   FEUP  First  Job  2012  
14. Smart  people  are  key!   •  Working  with  Universities   •  Starting  Internships   •  Being  here   8  November,   2012   14   FEUP  First  Job  2012  
15. UNEP-­‐WCMC:  Making  conservation   easy   Thank  you!   8  November,   2012   15   FEUP  First  Job  2012  
16. References   •  www.unep-­‐wcmc.org   •  www.coderwall.com/team/unep-­‐wcmc   •  www.github.com/unepwcmc   •  www.protectedplanet.org   •  www.madingleymodel.org   •  www.cites.org   •  www.iucn.org   •  www.cbd.int   8  November,   2012   16   FEUP  First  Job  2012