A spatial layer of human terrestrial pressures for New Zealand
The global Human Footprint Map is a measure of human pressures on the environment that has been linked to changes in species extinction risks and the loss of intact ecosystems. Previous work assessed the utility of downscaling the global map to more precise regional scales using a 90 m resolution, and found that doing so supported conservation-based land-use planning. We created a New Zealand human pressure layer in a resolution (100 m) and projection (New Zealand Transverse Mercator 2000) suitable for national-scale analysis for the years 2012 and 2018.