Blog Posts: forests deforestation

There’s a movement building to restore forests in Brazil. And now, for the first time, it’s possible to track progress and see where tree cover is increasing across the country, through the new Brazilian Restoration and Reforestation Observatory.

Research from WRI reveals the most impactful steps that President-elect Biden and the new Congress can take to harness the carbon-removing power of trees and forests in the United States. Taking these steps can turn bipartisan rhetoric supporting tree restoration into tangible action.

This year's New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF) assessment shows that the world failed to halve deforestation by this year, and is severely off track to end deforestation by 2030. Efforts must be made to speed up progress in order to reach the 2030 goal.

Artificial neural networks fed data on prior deforestation can be used to project and plan for future forest loss in Central Africa and beyond.

The Malaysian state of Sarawak was once home to one of Asia’s most biologically diverse tropical rainforests. That was until a technical report by a British aristocrat initiated 25 years of support for a disastrous forest management program that continues to this day.

Despite significant efforts to reduce deforestation in recent years, new satellite data shows that two of the world's largest forested nations, Brazil and Indonesia, both saw an uptick in tree cover loss in 2014.

Brasil e Indonésia fizeram grandes esforços para diminuir o desflorestamento em anos recentes mas, em 2014, registraram aumento na perda de árvores, de acordo com novos dados divulgados pelo Global Forest Watch.

Les forêts tropicales du monde sont menacées, confirme des nouvelles données satellites de l'Université du Maryland et Google et publiées aujourd'hui sur Global Forest Watch.

Los bosques tropicales del mundo están en problemas serios, así lo confirman los nuevos análisis satelitales de la Universidad de Maryland y Google, publicados hoy en Global Forest Watch.

The world lost 18 million hectares (45 million acres) of trees in 2014, more than half of it in the tropics.