Koh and Wich testing their drone in Switzerland. The conservation drone has been equipped with various cameras including the GoPro HD Hero video camera, the Canon IXUS 220 HS, and…
Map of extent of global wetlands. Courtesy of Prigent et al 2012. Click image to enlarge. Global wetlands declined by six percent between 1993 and 2007 due to conversion for…
The Google Street View team in the Brazilian Amazon. Courtesy of Google. Google has posted images of a stretch of rainforest and communities along the Amazon river on its Street…
Remote-controlled plane offers bird's-eye approach to conservation. Aerial photograph from the drone showing forest clearing. Courtesy of Lian Pin Koh. Conservationists have converted a remote-controlled plane into a potent tool…
Overlooking rainforest in Guyana. Photo by: Jeremy Hance. In a bid to gain legal recognition of their land, the indigenous Wapichan people have digitally mapped their customary rainforest land in…
Biomass map. Courtesy of WHRC. Click here for a zoom-able version. Tropical rainforests store some 229 billion tons of carbon in their vegetation — about 20 percent more than previously…
The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) on Saturday released a comprehensive map of the world's REDD+ programs. The map includes 340 REDD+ projects, programs, and policies in 52 countries.…
Screenshot of new website of community mapping in central Africa's forests. A new initiative to place community mapping of central African rainforests online could prove key to local rights in…
2.5-billion-ha carbon map shows forests store 250B tons of carbon Forest carbon stock. Click image to enlarge Tropical forests across Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia stored 247 gigatons of…
The National Biomass and Carbon Dataset (NBCD) map of the continental US courtesy of Woods Hole Research Center. Click to enlarge. The Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) has released the…
Indigenous peoples of Congo map their forests with GPS in an effort to save them Indigenous peoples of Congo map their forests with GPS in an effort to save them…
