1. Student Number: 3501643 BDC332 practical faculty November 2018
Thailand
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BDC332 practical
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November 2018
Please use this template to answer your Practical Exam Question. Ensure you have YOUR STUDENT NUMBER on the Title Page and this PowerPoint file is renamed to reflect your student number and the country you analysed. The completed PowerPoint needs to be put onto a computer and you attach your name to the computer. The data includes that downloaded from IUCN Red Data List, DIVA GIS, WWF Ecoregions, Protected Planet, and ESRI. You may add images but please credit/attribute them using an in-text numbering system and a reference list on the final page.
BCB/ESS
Kingdom of Thailand

2. Introduction location
Prepare a location map using your GIS with a title, scale bar, North direction, a comprehensive legend and a figure caption. Your map should include neighbouring countries and their Capital cities. please include an overview map.

3. Biodiversity description andthreats
Thailand has a total of 517,878 square kilometres (protected planet)
Area of land protected: 92,391% square kilometres (protected planet.net)
Marine coverage a total of 306,891 square kilometres of which 5,774 square kilometres is protected (protected planet.net)
That said, the country is relatively small, but rich in biodiversity.
Thailand consists of  distinct geographic regions:
North – Mountainous Area of Thai regions
Northeastern – Dominated by river valley runs into the Southern Gulf region
Introduction
Biodiversity Description: In summarized point form describe the country's biodiversity capital (assets) and threats to its biodiversity conservation. YOU MAY USE SEVERAL SLIDES TO EXPLAIN THIS SECTION.

4. Introduction continued…
There are numerous treats to Thailand biodiversity, namely: poaching, deforestation (due to agricultural expansion and illegal timber harvesting), destructive fishing practices, pollution, and disturbances caused by major infrastructure development.
During the last two centuries on a global scale ever increasing landscape changes have affected the functionality of landscapes, biodiversity, landscape patterns and ecological stability.
This landscape study examines the country Thailand, in relation to current protected areas network, conservation planning units and planning tenures.

5. CURRENT PROTECTED AREAS
Methods
Prepare a map of the current Protected Areas Network. The prepared map should include a title, scale bar, North direction, a comprehensive legend and a fully descriptive caption. DO NOT DISTORT THE MAPS.

6. CONSERVATION TARGETS Percentage and Species penalty factors
Methods
Prepare a map of Conservation Targets: Identify at least TEN potential conservation targets that are suitable for a national conservation plan for your selected country in the context of their contribution to a global biodiversity conservation strategy. Targets need to be prepared as individual Boolean RASTER distribution maps. Please provide Species Penalty Factors for each Target. YOU WILL USE SEVERAL SLIDES TO SHOW these Conservation Targets. The folder contains zipped files that you select from or you can go to the IUCN Red data website to get other data ( ).
The prepared maps should include a title, scale bar, North direction, a comprehensive legend and a fully descriptive caption. DO NOT DISTORT THE MAPS.

7. CONSERVATION planning units (ecological)
Methods
Prepare maps representing BOTH SYSTEMATIC and ECOLOGICAL PLANNING UNITS. You should prepare ONE slide for each type of Planning Units and explain how you prepared the Planning Units. The prepared map(s) should include a title, scale bar, North direction, a comprehensive legend and a fully descriptive caption. DO NOT DISTORT THE MAPS

8. CONSERVATION planning units (Systematic)
The main factor when doing conservation planning, systematic planning units contribute to the representation of biodiversity.
Methods
Prepare maps representing BOTH SYSTEMATIC and ECOLOGICAL PLANNING UNITS. You should prepare ONE slide for each type of Planning Units and explain how you prepared the Planning Units. The prepared map(s) should include a title, scale bar, North direction, a comprehensive legend and a fully descriptive caption. DO NOT DISTORT THE MAPS.

9. CONSERVATION planning tenure Evaluating Protected areas
Methods
Prepare a Conservation Planning Tenures Map to ASSESS the efficiency of the EXISTING Protected Area Network: This needs to be prepared as a SINGLE ANNOTATED map which should include a title, scale bar, North direction, a comprehensive legend and a fully descriptive caption. DO NOT DISTORT THE MAPS.

10. CONSERVATION planning Explaining Marxan
Methods
Prepare a Conservation Planning Tenures Map to ASSESS the complement (what needs to be added) to the EXISTING Protected Area Network: This needs to be prepared as a SINGLE ANNOTATED map which should include a title, scale bar, North direction, a comprehensive legend and a fully descriptive caption. DO NOT DISTORT THE MAPS.

11. Systematic CONSERVATION planning Explaining Marxan
Identify areas to meet targets
Select planning units
Meet spatial requirements
Ecological process, threats & conditions
Identify tradeoffs between conservation & Socio-economic objectives
Generate good solutions
Methods
Use this slide and simple drawings or flow diagrams to explain the core concepts of MARXAN. You should not use the IDRISI dialogue boxes. Ensure you use proper annotation and include a descriptive caption.

12. Systematic CONSERVATION planning Explaining Marxan
Marxan parameters:
Boundary length modifer:2
Repeat runs:1000
Species missing if proportion of target lower than: 0,95
Run mode: apply simulated annealing followed by iterative improvement
Annealing controls
No of iterations:
Temperature decreases: 1000
Cost threshold >Threshold enabled > threshold:1600
Penalty factor A: 9 – B:2
Starting proportion is 0
Run Marxan
Marxan Input-Ouput:
Planning unit layer: hexagon of country
Add raster group of conservation target
Select target percentage
Penalty factor (spf):10
Auto fill species type
Enable planning unit layer (tenure and transformed layer)
Boundary length file enabled
Output prefix is marxan conservation %
In summarized point form describe the parameter options you should select for the final RUN of the MARXAN analysis. You may use dialogue boxes to explain this section. (You do not need to run MARXAN as it would take too long to do the runs).

13. Expected Results Systematic CONSERVATION planning Defines-user targets
Determines spatial features
Set targets for specific features
Calibrate parameters
Reiterate analysis with new/updated data
Expected Results
Explain using Diagrams the results you would expect to obtain from MARXAN. They do not need to be the actual results rather the form of the MARXAN outputs you would expect. You may use more than one slide to prepare this section.

14. Sources of data, attribution and acknowledgements
DIVA-GIS
IDIRISI SELVA
Paint
Data: diva-gis.org and protectedplanet.net
References
Ensure you provide full credit to source of information, Programs used, and referencing/attribution of referenced material. You may use more than one slide to prepared this section.