Protected Areas Tourism Potential Help



Ranked protected areas

This grid shows the ranked protected areas that are shown in order according to the column that is clicked. The columns show various ranks for tourism potential that are based on the intersection between the IUCN Red list of Threatened Species and the World Database of Protected Areas (WDPA). A number of indicators also use the image count which is the total number of images for the species in the Flickr API when searching on the scientific name (in February 2012) . The following indicators have been computed to assess the tourism potential:

ColumnIndicator
totalRank for the sum of the SAI values for all species except those with the Red List Status of Least Concern (LC). Because this indicator uses the raw SAI values, greater weight is given to those protected areas that have charismatic species like the big cats.
lnRank for the sum of the natural log SAI values for all species except those with the Red List Status of Least Concern (LC). This indicator uses the natural log of the SAI values so there is much less variation in charisma values between species, so overall protected areas are weighted more on the total number of charismatic species.
sqrRank for the sum of the square root of the SAI values for all species except those with the Red List Status of Least Concern (LC). This indicator uses the square root of the SAI values so there is less variation in the charisma values between species but not as much as the natural log. Therefore protected areas are weighted equally on charisma and on the total number of species.
avgRank for the average SAI value for the protected area. This indicator does not represent total charisma but the average charisma for all species.
richRank for the total number of species that occur in the protected area irrespective of charisma. This indicator does not use SAI values and it includes all species including those that are of Least Concern.
statusRank for the sum of categorised Red List statuses according to the following categories: LC=1,NT=2,VU=3,EN=4,CR=5
scoreRank for the sum of the categorised SAI values according to the following categories: <1=1, >1 and <10=2, >10 and <100=3, >100 and <1000=4, >1000 and <10000=5, >10000=6

Species

This grid shows a list of species that occur in the protected area according to the intersection between the Red List and the WDPA. Species can be filtered according to their Red List Status or the taxonomic group. Images can also be returned for species.