Wildlife Conservation 2.0
Posted on Friday, May 16th, 2008
By ahedgehog
A new software-based approach may be the key to saving thousands of species.
Aquatic wildlife of the Great Barrier Reef gets a boost from Marxan software
Nothing pushes a species to extinction like wiping out its habitat. Consider the Hawaiian Islands: They were originally covered in trees, but by the 1950s three-quarters of the islands’ natural forests had been destroyed to make way for animal pastures and crops. Many other habitats were overrun by introduced pigs and rats. The effect on Hawaii’s indigenous species was devastating: In the last 200 years, 28 species of birds alone were wiped out, including the large Kauai thrush. Once widespread throughout the Hawaiian Islands, this thrush has not been seen since 1989. It is considered extinct by the World Conservation Union.
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