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Deforestation in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

New initiative to further creation of a single map in Indonesia’s Riau

Mongabay.com 27 Jul 2016

Piloting PALM Risk to detect palm oil-driven deforestation

Julia John 20 Jul 2016

New map of Malaysia’s limestone hills will help set conservation priorities

Mike Gaworecki 11 Jul 2016

Combining high-tech and low-tech to turn satellite images into action

Nathan Hahn 24 Jun 2016
Penas Blancas Forest, Costa Rica. Photo credit: George Powell

Online forest mapping made easy

Suzanne Palminteri 4 Jun 2016

Indigenous territories occupy 40 percent of protected land and marine areas in Central America

Mike Gaworecki 20 May 2016

Singapore, Indonesia jostle over anti-haze measures

Mongabay Haze Beat 16 May 2016

Search, map, measure, and count

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 14 May 2016

Malaysian palm oil companies say their concession maps are state secrets

Mongabay.com 6 May 2016

Could conservation education in virtual reality help change the real world?

Julia John 3 May 2016

Companies asked to pitch in to Indonesia’s peat restoration drive as early fires flare in Sumatra

Mongabay Haze Beat 8 Apr 2016

Participatory Mapping in the Mobile Age

Nathan Hahn 6 Apr 2016

Breakthrough: Indonesia’s highest court orders release of mining data

Yustinus S. Hardjanto 30 Mar 2016

CyberTracking for Africa’s most endangered ape

Julia John 25 Mar 2016

Indonesia’s oil palm maps remain hidden from public view. Why?

Mongabay.com 23 Mar 2016

$1m for devising best way to map Indonesia’s peatlands

Sapariah Saturi 5 Mar 2016

Want to keep tabs on that new logging road in Peru? Well, now you can

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Mar 2016

Indonesia could collaborate with RSPO, official study finds

Jonathan Vit 19 Feb 2016

New mapping platform sees the forest for the carbon

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Dec 2015

First-of-its-kind mapping platform could help protect land held by Indigenous communities

Basten Gokkon, Shreya Dasgupta 13 Nov 2015

A Borneo village maps its land to protect against encroachers

Christopel Paino 3 Nov 2015

Sunrise to sunset: documenting warbler migrations with cheap, light geolocator tags

Katie Taylor 22 Oct 2015

Plantation companies challenged by haze-causing fires in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Oct 2015

Researchers find ‘hidden tapestry’ of plant chemicals in Amazon forest

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jul 2015

Satellite-based forest mapping platform hits its stride

Victor Montoro 26 Jun 2015

First-of-its-kind mapping technique sheds new light on tropical forests

Shreya Dasgupta 29 May 2015

New mapping project uncovers road networks in Peru’s primary forests

Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa 13 May 2015

A tale of two maps: Brazilian state won’t use new atlas to close Cerrado deforestation loophole

Brendan Borrell 13 Apr 2015

River flooding to affect 40M people annually by 2030

Loren Bell 11 Mar 2015

Mapping local communities’ efforts to protect forests in Indonesia

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Feb 2015

When is a forest a forest? How definitions affect monitoring

Julian Moll-rocek 29 Jan 2015

Radical transparency: tracking deforestation through satellite imagery

Julian Moll-rocek 28 Jan 2015

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