Blog Posts: tree cover loss

If tropical deforestation were a country, it would rank third in global emissions behind China and the United States. Tree cover loss is on the rise, but channeling climate mitigation finance towards forests could change the course of the world's climate.

Indonesia must build on recent reductions in tree cover loss and protections for peatlands. To get there, they'll need more international support, innovative schemes such as peatland restoration and continued monitoring.

The tropics lost 15.8 million hectares of tree cover in 2017, an area the size of Bangladesh. That’s the equivalent of losing 40 football fields of trees every minute for an entire year!

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La pérdida de cobertura arbórea mundial, ascendió a un récord de 29,7 millones de hectáreas (73,4 millones de acres) en 2016, según datos nuevos de la Universidad de Maryland lanzados hoy en Global Forest Watch. Dicha pérdida, es 51% mayor que el año pasado, ascendiendo a un área que se aproxima al tamaño de Nueva Zelanda.

Los incendios forestales, parecen ser la causa principal del salto este año, incluso la degradación...

Tree cover with the surface area of New Zealand was lost in 2016 after a wave of fires that signal the need for better forest management worldwide.

New data on global tree cover loss shows that Brazil experienced a major spike in tree cover loss in 2016.

The 2015 data on tree cover loss has been added to Global Forest Watch. Here's what we learned.

New data on Global Forest Watch shows that in some of the world's most heavily forested nations, more than 90 percent of tree cover loss is happening in natural forests rather than plantations. That's a problem since natural forests, especially those in the tropics, provide much greater climate, biodiversity and water benefits over planted lands.

James Anderson uses the Global Forest Watch platform to analyze forest change in his hometown of Northfield, Minnesota.

Wanjira Mathai, daughter of Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai and co-chair of the Global Restoration Council, discusses the new landscape restoration initiative AFR100 and the power of restoration to address a range of issues, including health, environment, energy security and the empowerment of women.