Connectivity for Wildlife’s goal is to provide scientifically robust data to enhance or restore disconnected wildlife habitats.
Connectivity for Wildlife identifies habitat linkages for multiple species using:
- *Field camera stations*
- *Formal wildlife tracking methods*
The degree of habitat fragmentation can be assessed through monitoring animal use of highway and railroad infrastructures, urbanization and other manmade structures, which can disconnect wildlife habitats. The permeability of a landscape for wildlife movement can also be assessed by recording wildlife movement patterns within and through the area.
By working with local partners such as land trusts, Departments of Transportation, colleges and universities, and other wildlife protection organizations, landscapes can be conserved and enhanced to facilitate wildlife movement by:
- *Identifying areas wildlife is moving through*
- *Identifying barriers to wildlife movement*
- *Recommend remedies to manmade or other impediments*
CFW combines field camera technology with on site ground truthing to produce scientifically robust data collections, databases, analyses, and maps.
Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
--Chief Seattle, 1854