Creating and developing a wildlife spatial database (A case study of Khuzestan province)

Sustainable management of wildlife and natural habitats outcome of spatial, quantitative and qualitative studies of wildlife populations and habitats. Which highlights the importance of proper maintenance of existing data and organizing them to increase lifetime of such data to avoid duplication of resampling operations and to save budgets of wildlife conservation and management.So according to the advantages of using database management system for maintenance, usage and management of data, in this study we aim to design and implement spatial database of Khuzestan province wildlife. In order to design and implement the spatial database we used PostgreSQL/PostGIS object-relational database. According to results of our study, PostgreSQL/PostGIS (open source database management system) known as a viable option for the development of wildlife spatial data management capabilities. Also our study indicates that the designed management database system can support all possible queries related to wildlife spatial data, this system can also provide a solution to solve some problems related to management of large volumes of wildlife scattered data. According to the success of this research, we emphasized the necessity of attention to organize and manage the wildlife information and considered it issue in macro polices of Environmental Protection Organization of Iran. Finally, we pointed the necessity of creating and developing a universal database for the wildlife spatial data of Iran.