Coral Cay Conservation - CCC Forest Project Outputs

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Results of CCC's Forest Projects

CCC Forest Project Outputs

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CCC conducts baseline surveys of natural resources for countries that have limited financial and technical resources to do the job themselves.

This information is then compiled and analysed to formulate recommendations for sustainable management and conservation which can only be developed by local stakeholders.

Baseline Data

CCC surveys focus on faunal and floral biodiversity, and this baseline ecological information provides:

ecological data for habitat comparisons between monitoring sites. This includes assessing relative abundance and distribution of species in relation to habitat type.
information for comparison with scientific surveys in other rainforest environments.
records for national and International biodiversity databases and to compile full species inventories of the areas studied.
Provide baseline data on which future management guidelines can be developed.

Data Analysis

Ultimately, the empirical data generated will be integrated with other (environmental, social and economic) data sets using a Geographic Information System (GIS) in order to produce spatially referenced end user natural resource management tools.

What happens to the data?

The CCC Data Highway flow diagram provides a graphic illustration of the 'inputs' and 'outputs' into data collection and analysis. Specifically for the forest projects, spatially referenced land cover data using digitised maps, aerial photographs and satellite images of the forest habitats is digitised into a GIS to create a base resource map for the forest area in question. Biodiversity distribution data gathered by CCC volunteers is then overlaid onto this base map to classify the digitised features and produce detailed habitat and species distribution maps. The faunal and floral community composition data can then be extrapolated to classify other similar habitat areas within the same region of forest. Outputs from projects come in the form of resource assessment reports, conference papers, publications in peer reviewed journals, field guides and education materials.

Your Data

Every volunteer contributes valuable resource assessment data to a wider conservation process. Your data, in combination with that of others, contributes to the development of all outputs (as detailed above). Unfortunately it is not possible to compile reports regarding the data collected by individual volunteers but all your data is summarised in regular reports and other project outputs. The reports currently available for download can be found at: Downloadable Reports and Publications

Please be aware that the website is regularly updated and changed and may not feature all outputs produced at a particular expedition location. However, the CCC head office holds an extensive library of past reports, outputs, and other literature relating to the work of CCC, that we welcome you to consult. For further information, please contact the CCC science department This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it