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Each passing Earth Day brings a stronger sense of urgency to protect our planet as we race toward exhausting its finite resources, like land, food, and water. However, each year also brings new promise for solving this challenge as government, civil society, and industry make greater commitments to a sustainable future. That’s why today, Orbital […]

It has been one year since the Global Forest Watch (GFW) platform launched, bringing online a cutting-edge dynamic forest monitoring tool that empowers governments, companies, civil society, and other stakeholders around the world with timely, accurate information to better manage and protect their forest landscapes. In this time, thanks to our users and our growing network of now […]

Global Forest Watch and the World Resources Institute are excited to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2015 Global Forest Watch Small Grant Fund. The fund is open to civil society organizations working to strengthen local forest management and conservation practices, conduct evidence-based advocacy and campaigning, and/or promote transparency in the forest […]

Researchers broke ground when they demonstrated, through the use of satellite imagery, that Indonesia now has the highest rate of primary tropical forest loss in the world, overtaking Brazil. Their findings, published in Nature Climate Change, revealed that between 2000 to 2012, Indonesia lost more than 6 million hectares of primary forest—an area the size […]