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    Commentary Insights
    Forests
    Insights
    January 27, 2021

    Global Forest Review: Forest Pulse

    • global forest watch
    forest fires palangkaraya central kalimantan indonesia.jpg
    • global forest watch
    Forests
    Insights
    November 19, 2020

    Progress Must Speed Up to Protect and Restore Forests by 2030

    • fires
    • forest monitoring
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    • Forests
    • restoration
    • global forest watch
    A pile of logs on the side of a road.
    • fires
    • forest monitoring
    • deforestation
    • agriculture
    • Forests
    • restoration
    • global forest watch
    Forests
    Insights
    June 8, 2020

    Is Destruction the Inevitable Fate of Our Forests?

    • fires
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Forest fires in Kalimantan, Indonesia
    • fires
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Forests
    Insights
    February 21, 2020

    Agriculture Drove Recent Record-Breaking Tree Cover Loss

    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Cornfield in Thailand
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Forests
    Insights
    January 10, 2020

    10 Big Changes for Forests Over the Last Decade

    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • commodities
    • deforestation
    • biodiversity
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • indigenous people
    • restoration
    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • commodities
    • deforestation
    • biodiversity
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • indigenous people
    • restoration
    Latin America
    Insights
    August 23, 2019

    What Can Global Forest Watch Tell Us About the Fires in Brazil?

    • Climate
    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • fires
    • climate change
    • global forest watch
    GFW Satellite Fires image
    • Climate
    • Sustainable Development Goal 15
    • fires
    • climate change
    • global forest watch
    Insights
    June 3, 2019

    A 5-Step Plan to Protect and Restore Indonesia's Forests

    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • low carbon development
    Forest on the Mamberamo River in Papua.
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • low carbon development
    Forests
    Insights
    September 13, 2018

    When a Tree Falls, Is It Deforestation?

    • forest monitoring
    • commodities
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Deforestation in Sarawak, Malaysia driven by palm oil. Flickr/Wakx
    • forest monitoring
    • commodities
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Forests
    Africa
    Insights
    June 21, 2018

    PODCAST: How an App Saves Chimpanzees in Uganda

    • forest monitoring
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Rangers using Forest Watcher.
    • forest monitoring
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Forests
    Insights
    June 19, 2018

    Places to Watch: 3 Hot Spots for Forest Clearing Right Now

    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Amazon deforestation
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Forests
    Asia
    Insights
    May 3, 2018

    Global Forest Watch GLAD Alerts Help Protect Sumatra’s Leuser Rainforest Ecosystem

    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Using Forest Watcher in the Leuser Ecosystem to record evidence of a new palm oil plantation.
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Forests
    Latin America Africa Asia
    Insights
    March 20, 2018

    Places to Watch: 3 Forest Regions at Risk Right Now

    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Palm Oil Plantations in Papua, New Guinea
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    Africa
    Insights
    December 13, 2017

    Places to Watch: 5 Forests at Risk This Month

    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • global forest watch
    • mapping
    oil palm plantation
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • global forest watch
    • mapping
    Africa
    Insights
    October 24, 2017

    A River Lined with Smoke: Charcoal and Forest Loss in the Democratic Republic of Congo

    • Forests
    • fossil fuels
    • deforestation
    • global forest watch
    A woman holding a fuel efficient stove
    • Forests
    • fossil fuels
    • deforestation
    • global forest watch
    Forests
    Asia Latin America
    Insights
    October 23, 2017

    Global Tree Cover Loss Rose 51 Percent in 2016

    • fires
    • deforestation
    • global forest watch
    Tree cover loss is on the rise. Flickr/CIFOR
    • fires
    • deforestation
    • global forest watch
    Latin America
    Insights
    October 23, 2017

    Technical Blog: Caveats to the 2016 Tree Cover Loss Data, Explained

    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • global forest watch
    Forest at dawn in Minas Gerais.
    • Forests
    • deforestation
    • global forest watch
    Forests
    North America
    Insights
    October 17, 2017

    California’s Wine Country Wildfires Are Among the Worst on Record

    • Forests
    • fires
    • global forest watch
    flight deck of the MAFFS 6
    • Forests
    • fires
    • global forest watch
    Forests
    Asia Africa
    Insights
    September 26, 2017

    Forest Watcher Brings Data Straight to Environmental Defenders

    • forest monitoring
    • deforestation
    • global forest watch
    Rangers checking Forest Watcher. Photo by Lilian Pintea
    • forest monitoring
    • deforestation
    • global forest watch
    Equity
    Asia
    Insights
    September 13, 2017

    In Riau, Indonesia, Women Organize for Environmental Justice

    • Forests
    • environmental justice
    • Gender
    • global forest watch
    dusty road to Sungai Berbari village
    • Forests
    • environmental justice
    • Gender
    • global forest watch
    Forests
    Latin America
    Insights
    September 7, 2017

    Indigenous Communities Fend Off Invaders in the Peruvian Amazon

    • forest monitoring
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • indigenous people
    Settlement seen from the Ucayali River in Peru.
    • forest monitoring
    • deforestation
    • Forests
    • global forest watch
    • indigenous people

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