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MapBuilder

Aerial view of map with terrain.
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New Mapbuilder Tool Offers Improved Custom Geospatial Monitoring

  • forest monitoring
  • global forest watch
  • mapping
  • Forests
A family checks a map as they walk through a path in the woods
  • forest monitoring
  • global forest watch
  • mapping
  • Forests
Insights

36 Countries Are Gaining More Trees than They’re Losing

  • forest monitoring
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • mapping
  • restoration
Saplings in Ireland
  • forest monitoring
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • mapping
  • restoration
Insights
Peatland forest in Parupuk village, Katingan. Central Kalimantan.
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • mapping
Initiatives

Land & Carbon Lab

Aerial view of fields
Insights

We Lost a Football Pitch of Primary Rainforest Every 6 Seconds in 2019

  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • mapping
Large logs sit on a truck bed in a forest concession in Ghana.
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • global forest watch
  • mapping

Hundreds of US Communities Are Making Climate Action Plans, but Few Include Forests

  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • Forests
Angeles National Forest
  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • deforestation
  • climate change
  • greenhouse gas accounting
  • Forests
Insights

A New Tool Can Help Root Out Deforestation from Complex Supply Chains

  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • Forests
  • mapping
Oil palm
  • Sustainable Development Goal 15
  • Responsible Corporate Advocacy
  • commodities
  • deforestation
  • Business
  • agriculture
  • Forests
  • mapping
Insights
jungle forest trees
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • mapping
Insights

To Save Indonesia’s Carbon-Rich Peatlands, Start by Mapping Them

  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • mapping
Peat swamp forest in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • mapping

5 Maps Show How Important Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities Are to the Environment

  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • mapping
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
indigenous people
  • Equity & Governance
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • human rights
  • land rights
  • mapping
  • Indigenous Peoples & Local Communities
Insights

3 Ways Governments Can Prevent Fake Data on Forests

  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • mapping
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • mapping
Insights

We Discovered 1.8 Million Square Miles of Forest in the Desert

  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Forests
  • mapping
Dryland forest in Kenya
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Forests
  • mapping
Insights

Exploring Indonesia's Long and Complicated History of Forest Fires

  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • fires
  • mapping
Forest and peat fire in Riau, Indonesia
  • Forests
  • deforestation
  • agriculture
  • fires
  • mapping
Insights

New Deforestation Hot Spots in the World’s Largest Tropical Forests

  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • mapping
Deforestation in Indonesia.
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • mapping
Insights

At the World Conservation Congress, 3 Growing Signs of Hope for Forests and Wildlife

  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • mapping
  • restoration
  • sustainable development goals
Gardener in Indonesia
  • COP21
  • Paris Agreement
  • deforestation
  • Forests
  • mapping
  • restoration
  • sustainable development goals
Insights

Watersheds Lost Up to 22% of Their Forests in 14 Years. Here’s How it Affects Your Water Supply

  • Freshwater
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Forests
  • mapping
  • water risk
On the Yangtze River at Badong, China. Photo by Bernd Thaller/Flickr.
  • Freshwater
  • deforestation
  • restoration
  • Forests
  • mapping
  • water risk
Silhouettes of children playing swing in turbine wind park at sunset