In 2002, US Secretary of State Colin Powell and other Bush administration members gave 53 million dollars to help preserve the Congo Basin.
[2] The results from this work showed that birds can exhibit heterogeneous relationships to temperature, precipitation, and productivity depending on the distinct environmental and climate conditions of each of the ecological regions traversed by the PCT.
They walked extensively on private timberland and public land recording data on historical exploitation, current forest stand characteristics, silviculture, and many other aspects of the redwood ecosystem.
The A.T. is oriented along the predicted migratory direction of species responding to climate change, making it a particularly important megatransect to establish and maintain.
For a rapidly changing planet, megatransects establish baseline data from which to draw future trends, and they can focus attention on particular ecosystems which are disappearing faster than others.
Establishing standard megatransects on specific regions or through various ecosystems of each continent, and periodic re–measurement of the ecological conditions along routes, every five to ten years, would provide very valuable measured data on environmental trends.