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In 2016, Global Forest Watch was used to expose United Cocoa’s illegal deforestation of primary tropical forests in Peru. Mongabay used images of the Global Forest Watch map to report the deforestation, setting in motion a series of events that led to the company ceasing its operations.
72.5 Mha primary forest lost.
Twice Germany's size of humid region forests lost since 2001, leaving just 26% as primary tree cover.
Nature's solution to crises.
Forests house 80% of land biodiversity and offer 30% of the solution to limit global warming under 2°C.
4 million users.
From the general public to conservation organizations, policymakers, journalists and companies.
With the Global Land Analysis and Discovery alerts, GFW releases fresh data weekly about how forests have changed. At a scale of just 30x30m (half the size of a football pitch), we can detect precise changes that inform stakeholders to take action.
By encoding multiple years of data into single map tiles, changes over time can be animated much more quickly without the need to download the data for each transition; this significantly boosts performance.
