Land & Wildlife Management | Survey & Monitor Wildlife Using GIS

Protect, restore, and manage natural resources

Understanding the relationships between ecosystems and our impact on them requires a geographic approach. With GIS technology, wildlife managers can monitor species and ecosystems in real time or take mobile tools offline for monitoring programs in remote, protected areas.

By capturing the extent of land and wildlife survey activities and measuring their impact through time, managers can turn this data collection into a conservation management plan with spatial analytics.

Streamline natural resource management

Prioritize resource protection
Track stewardship
Monitor species
Engage stakeholders

Prioritize resource protection

Successful land resource protection begins with setting priorities. Use GIS to assess the status of wildlife resources, distribution, and threats, as well as to track any changes. With GIS, you can compare scenarios against modeled future conditions to target and plan your stewardship and conservation activities.

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Track stewardship and restoration

Resource protection includes stewarding and restoring our natural resources. With GIS, land and wildlife managers can track assets and resources in the field and keep staff safe while executing conservation management plans. GIS allows land and wildlife managers to track stewardship over space and time to measure progress and outcomes.

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Monitor species and ecosystems

Land and wildlife managers can use GIS to analyze data from collars, cameras, or other sensor networks to remotely monitor species, ecosystems, and environmental variables.

GIS software can also automatically detect changes using imagery and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) and streamline work in remote areas to perform wildlife surveys efficiently and collect observations in the field.

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Educate and engage stakeholders

Education and outreach are critical components of successful land and wildlife management. GIS allows land and wildlife managers to scale impact through volunteer initiatives, collaborate with stakeholders to help inform policy decisions, and communicate success.

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Manage Wildlife for Hunters and Healthy Habitats

The Pennsylvania Game Commission embraces enterprise GIS for statewide dashboards for hunters and better management of game species.

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Environmental Digital Twin: Longleaf Pines

A GIS-powered digital twin enables Tall Timbers to manage their ecosystem and dig into details about how forests behave with and without fire.

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Scaling Forest Land Management Operations with GIS

GIS apps help workers capture and edit data in real time for invasive species management and prescribed burns.

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GIS Helps Keep Wildlife on the Map

The Nevada Department of Wildlife preserves the elk population by using GIS to improve aerial wildlife surveys and streamline data collection.

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CA: Saving An Imperiled Bird Habitat And Ecosystem

GIS helps monitor the effectiveness of a program to rehabilitate part of the Salton Sea by developing aquatic habitat and reducing exposed lake bed.

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Mapping the World’s Most Trafficked Mammal

A genetic map of the pangolin helps trace confiscated scales to combat global poaching and the $20 billion illegal wildlife trade.

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Use this mobile solution to capture data, perform inspections, take notes, and share information with the office.

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ArcGIS Velocity

Easily consume, visualize, and analyze streaming data in real time from sensor networks within the Internet of Things (IoT).

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Capture wildlife observations and monitor wildlife populations in and around protected areas.

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Wildlife and Land Management

Protect, restore, and manage natural resources

Streamline natural resource management

Prioritize resource protection

Track stewardship and restoration

Monitor species and ecosystems

Educate and engage stakeholders

Manage Wildlife for Hunters and Healthy Habitats

Environmental Digital Twin: Longleaf Pines

Scaling Forest Land Management Operations with GIS

GIS Helps Keep Wildlife on the Map

CA: Saving An Imperiled Bird Habitat And Ecosystem

Mapping the World’s Most Trafficked Mammal

Products and solutions

ArcGIS Pro

ArcGIS Hub

ArcGIS Field Maps

ArcGIS Velocity

Conservation Easement Monitoring

Recreation Outreach

Wildlife Management

Environment and natural resources focus areas

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Wildlife and Land Management

Parks and Recreation

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