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DESCRIPTION:Environmental decisions in under-resourced governments and NGOs
  are often delayed or poorly informed\, not because of lack of data\, but 
 because of lack of accessible tools to process and visualize it. This talk
  presents one replicable open-source spatial methodology applied in two ve
 ry different real world contexts: municipal conservation planning in Colom
 bia and endangered subspecies protection in the Balearic Islands\, Spain.\
 nThe methodology was first developed in La Unión\, a small municipality i
 n Valle del Cauca\, Colombia. Using QGIS geoprocessing tools\, including b
 uffers\, clip operations\, and spatial joins\, I built a workflow to ident
 ify priority areas for water resource conservation and biodiversity protec
 tion\, integrating protected area layers\, forest cover\, terrain slope\, 
 and proximity to water sources. This approach is designed to be reproducib
 le across municipalities sharing similar geographic and ecological profile
 s.\nThe impact went far beyond a single environmental study. Decades of mu
 nicipal data stored in paper archives and AutoCAD files were migrated into
  structured QGIS databases\, creating for the first time a shared spatial 
 infrastructure across all municipal departments\, environment\, urban plan
 ning\, agriculture\, and territorial planning. Today\, every department in
  La Unión's local government uses QGIS to make articulated\, spatially in
 formed decisions. QField played a key role in this transformation\, enabli
 ng field teams and community members to collect georeferenced data directl
 y\, closing the gap between office analysis and on-the-ground reality.\nBu
 ilding on this experience\, I am now applying the same open-source spatial
  methodology in a very different ecological context: island biodiversity c
 onservation in the Mediterranean. Working with an environmental NGO in Ibi
 za\, I am mapping the distribution of Podarcis pityusensis\, a lizard with
  around 40 subspecies endemic to the Pityusic Islands\, currently endanger
 ed by invasive predators such as snakes and feral cats. The same QGIS work
 flows are helping identify where populations have declined and where urgen
 t conservation interventions are needed to ensure their survival.\nOne met
 hodology. Two contexts. One conclusion: QGIS\, combined with open data\, Q
 Field for field collection\, and community training\, becomes a full decis
 ion-making infrastructure\, accessible to any municipality or NGO regardle
 ss of budget or geography.
DTSTAMP:20260724T192801Z
LOCATION:Bridge Cinema
SUMMARY:QGIS as a decision-making engine: from municipal conservation plann
 ing in Colombia to island biodiversity protection in the Mediterranean - F
 abiana Jaramillo
URL:https://talks.osgeo.org/qgis-uc2026/talk/33NBEF/
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