Mapping a Greener Future: Insights & Metrics 4 Conservation & Environmental Protection | Geo4Good'23

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❤️🌍 DESCRIPTION
Learn how 10 organizations are harnessing the power of mapping tools to drive significant social and environmental change. From safeguarding biodiversity to empowering Indigenous communities, this session at the Geo for Good Summit spotlights pioneering efforts on protection, management and restoration of Earth’s natural resources through insights and metrics.

Discover the intersection of cutting-edge technology and conservation as experts share their groundbreaking work and the role of geospatial data in protecting our planet. #Conservation #GeospatialData #Sustainability #GeoForGood #EnvironmentalImpact #Innovation

💻 TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Introduction to Conservation Summit
2:38 - Global Environmental Protection Strategies
7:15 - Half-Earth Project Overview
10:20 - Urgent Conservation Strategies Discussion
16:27 - Transition to Expert Interviews
17:23 - Lauren Terbasket & Nathan Hahn: Indigenous Perspectives
31:30 - Similkameen Band: Dynamic Conservation Mapping
31:50 - Jamaica's Blue Mountains: Conservation Technology
36:33 - Google Earth: Endangered Species Protection
43:54 - Conservation Summit Closing Thoughts
44:35 - Breakout Session Agenda
46:27 - Eugene Yeh: Applied Solutions for Conservation

🎙️ SPEAKERS
-Jennifer Hird, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, “Supporting land and resource management in Alberta, Canada, with Earth Engine to provide open access, provincial-scale geospatial data sets”
-Katie P. Bernhard, Pennsylvania State University, “Are transboundary Congo Basin protected areas complexes effective at reducing agriculture-driven deforestation and forest degradation?”
-Lingling Liu, World Bank, “Pipeline that can help identify areas for landscape restoration investments for countries across the World Bank’s portfolio”
Fernanda Ribeiro, Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), “Monitoring deforestation in the savannas: the Cerrado Deforestation Alert System - SAD Cerrado”
-João Siqueira, MapBiomas, “MapBiomas Alert: Improving the refinement of deforestation alerts in Brazil.”
-Luiz Cortinhas F. Neto, MapBiomas, “Brazilian Mining Status: The Artisanal and Industrial Footprints”
-Keenan Ganz, University of Washington, “500,000 polygons and a laptop: buliding a model of lake depth on Google Earth Engine.”
-Jake Wall, Mara Elephant Project, “Ecoscope: a new tool for conservation data analytics”
-Coen Adler, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Diffusion Models for Species-Specific Functional Habitat Connectivity”
-Karina Azevedo, The Nature Conservancy, “Digitais da Floresta”