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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

New mapping technique sheds light on dry forests

Sandhya Sekar 16 Dec 2014

Ranking the world’s best – and worst – palm oil companies in terms of sustainability

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Nov 2014

Mapping mistake leaves wildlife at risk

Morgan Erickson-Davis 12 Nov 2014

Peru has massive opportunity to avoid emissions from deforestation

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Nov 2014

Google’s new Gombe Street View lets users ‘walk’ along chimp trails and into Jane Goodall’s house

Morgan Erickson-Davis 24 Oct 2014

Researchers create global map of world’s forests circa 1990

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Oct 2014

World’s rainforests could be mapped in 3D at high resolution by 2020 for under $250M

Rhett Ayers Butler 5 Sep 2014

Canada, Russia, Brazil lead world in old-growth forest loss

Morgan Erickson-Davis 5 Sep 2014

Where should the roads go? New map offers a solution to the ‘Pandora’s Box of environmental problems’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 27 Aug 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Maps for the masses

Dr Liz Kimbrough 18 Apr 2014

Next big idea in forest conservation? Global road map to mitigate damage from roads

Dr Liz Kimbrough 17 Jan 2014

Democratizing forest monitoring on a global scale

Rhett Ayers Butler 17 Dec 2013

Top 10 Environmental Stories of 2013

Rhett Ayers Butler 10 Dec 2013

Deforestation accelerates in Indonesia, finds Google forest map

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2013

Powered by Google, high resolution forest map reveals massive deforestation worldwide

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Nov 2013

Indonesian group vows to map 30 million hectares of customary forest in 7 years

Diana Parker 28 Aug 2013

Whale shark mapping: scientists uncover global distribution for the largest fish in the world

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Aug 2013

New maps highlight global conservation priorities

Jeremy Hance 25 Jun 2013

Using drones to monitor wildlife in India

Akhila Vijayaraghavan 9 Apr 2013

Male lions require dense vegetation for successful ambush hunting

Jeremy Hance 20 Mar 2013

Featured video: Saving the Amazon through maps

Jeremy Hance 20 Feb 2013

New forest map shows 6% of Amazon deforested between 2000 and 2010

Mongabay.com 21 Sep 2012

3-D laser mapping shows elephants have big impact on trees

Jeremy Hance 6 Aug 2012

Global wetlands shrink 6% in 15 years

Mongabay.com 14 May 2012

Google brings Street View, Maps to the Amazon (photos)

Mongabay.com 22 Mar 2012

Guyanese tribe maps Connecticut-sized rainforest for land rights

Jeremy Hance 7 Feb 2012

Rainforests store 229 billion tons of carbon globally finds ‘wall-to-wall’ carbon map

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Jan 2012

Global map of REDD+ projects released

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2011

Community mapping of African rainforests could show way forward for preservation, REDD

Jeremy Hance 1 Dec 2011

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