Webinar: Cetacean conservation planning: dealing with uncertainty & data gaps
Channel: Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge
Date: 2021-04-27

In this webinar, Fabrice Stephenson (NIWA), presented a tool that can be used to visualise cetacean diversity hotspots with varying levels of uncertainty. 

This visualisation identifies the best locations for protection and can help to incorporate uncertainty for marine spatial planning and/or decision-makers for marine or resource consent applications. 

This method is applicable to other species/taxa, and can be used as a framework for incorporating uncertainty when dealing with multiple species. This provides a robust and efficient step towards better decision-making for conservation management in a participatory process. 

Recorded: 11am, Tuesday 27 April

Presentation: 33 mins
Q&A session: 16 mins

Learn more: https://www.sustainableseaschallenge.co.nz/our-research/communicating-risk-and-uncertainty/