The remains of a mangrove, Brazil. Captions and Photo source: ©© Marc Wisniak
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A new website, Global Forest Watch, launched Thursday will allow governments, businesses, civil society and private citizens to monitor near real-time loss and gain in forest cover in every country around the world.
The World Resources Institute (WRI), Google, and a group of more than 40 partners launched Global Forest Watch (GFW), a dynamic online forest monitoring and alert system that empowers people everywhere to better manage forests. For the first time, Global Forest Watch unites the latest satellite technology, open data, and crowdsourcing to guarantee access to timely and reliable information about forests…
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Website Gives Real-Time Snapshot of Deforestation, IPS News
Saving Fiji’s Coral Reefs Linked to Forest Conservation Upstream, WCS (Uploaded 12-18-2013)
The health of coral reefs offshore depend on the protection of forests near the sea, according to a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society that outlines the importance of terrestrial protected areas to coastal biodiversity…
A Giant Brought to Its Knees: The Atlantic Coastal Forest (Uploaded 06-09-2011)
The Atlantic Forest is a shadow of its former self. Originally covering more than 386,000 sq. miles along Brazil’s coast, extending into eastern Paraguay and northeastern Argentina. Today less than 7% of that cover remains, in the wake of centuries of forest clearing for agriculture and urban development, and fragmented by centuries of unsustainable use and logging.
