The application of geographic information system for wild beast policy and resource management

Abstract

Today, it becomes a serious national problem that the amount of wild beast damages for crops is increasing. The effects are not only monetary lose but also decreasing of farming. The reason why the wild beast damages become conspicuous is debilitation of farm labor construction. The pullout from farming, aging of farmer and following as a side job put some distance make between farmers and farm. Moreover, the cultivation abandon fields along the mountainside make fuzzy the border between human and wild beast. The geographic information systems(GISs) are effective for collecting information and aggregating them. This paper introduces the situation and policy of wild beast damages in Kyoto, and discusses the possibility of applying GISs. After that, the GISs apply for confirmation of “decreasing effect” of wild beast damages by grazing project. This “decreasing effect” means decreasing wild beast damages by grazing at bamboo area neighboring farm. Finally, the problems for using GISs more effectively in wild beast policy were discussed. Those are (1) the construction of wild beast damage map which aggregated various data maps and (2) the update and community of the wild beast damage map.