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Unit 3: Information Products

impressive gains of a focused project like ‘Project Tiger’. The important elements in wildlife protection Notes
and control are: Mapping/Plot (graphics) plotting the relative spatial abundance of wild animals,
identification of risk factors, proximity to risk factors, ‘sensitivity categorization’, ‘crime mapping’
and immediate action for apprehending the offenders based on effective networking and
communication.
Space technology has shown the interconnectivity of natural and anthropogenic phenomena
occurring anywhere on earth. Several tiger reserves are being linked with the Project Tiger Directorate
in the GIS domain for Wildlife Crime Risk Management. A ‘Tiger Atlas of India’ and a ‘Tiger Habitat
and Population Evaluation System’ for the country is being developed using state-of-the-art
technology. This involves:
Mapping, data acquisition and GIS modelling
Field data collection and validation
Data Maintenance, dissemination and use
Satellite data is being used and classified into vegetation and land use maps on a 1:50,000 scale,
with digitized data relating to contour, villages, roads, drainage, administrative boundaries and
soil. The spatial layers would be attached with attribute data, viz. human population, livestock
population, meteorological data, agricultural information and field data pertaining to wildlife, habitat
for evolving regional protocols to monitor tigers and their habitat.
Conservation of tigers and their prey species faces challenges from the need for income, lack of
awareness, and lack of land use policy in landscapes having Tiger Reserves.
List tiger reserves in India save our tigers! They are endangered. They are our national animals!

Scientific Opinion on Climate Change
Scientific opinion on climate change is given by synthesis reports, scientific bodies of national or
international standing, and surveys of opinion among climate scientists. Individual scientists,
universities, and laboratories contribute to the overall scientific opinion via their peer reviewed
publications, and the areas of collective agreement and relative certainty are summarised in these
high level reports and surveys. Self-selected lists of individuals’ opinions, such as petitions, are not
normally considered to be part of the scientific process.
National and international science academies and scientific societies have assessed the current
scientific opinion, in particular on recent global warming. These assessments have largely followed
or endorsed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) position of January 2001 which
states:
An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes
in the climate system... There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over
the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.
No scientific body of national or international standing has maintained a dissenting opinion; the
last was the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, which in 2007 updated its 1999 statement
rejecting the likelihood of human influence on recent climate with its current non-committal position.
Some other organizations, primarily those focusing on geology, also hold non-committal positions.

3.16 Synthesis Reports

Synthesis reports are assessments of scientific literature that compile the results of a range of stand-
alone studies in order to achieve a broad level of understanding, or to describe the state of knowledge
of a given subject.

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