AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY: Conservation

The aerial view is a critical tool in conservation because from the air, you can see not only the intensity of an issue, but the scale, context, and the ecological reverberations that propagate throughout the landscape.

The aerial photograph can present a pristine or ravaged landscape that stretches as far as the eye can see. It can capture the stark boundary between impacted and intact landscapes. It can show the unintended and poorly understood collateral damage that easily flows across arbitrary lines on the land.

The aerial photograph possesses an inherent objectivity that can often distill a confusion of conflicting data into a simple assessment: Is this desirable, is it productive, is it just?