Filter by category and topics
SHOWING 6 OF 24 POSTS
Brazil’s Fire Ban Correlates a Reduction in Amazon Wildfires. The Ban Lifts Today.
Fires across Brazil caught the world’s attention this August, with fears that burning — and subsequent damage to the Amazon rainforest — would only intensify when peak fire season hit in September. However, Global Forest Watch (GFW) analysis of NASA data shows that fire alerts in the Amazon decreased by 34% between August and September. […]
What Can Global Forest Watch Tell Us About the Fires in Brazil?
The thousands of fires burning in the Brazilian Amazon got global attention this week, both in the media and online, where the hashtag #prayforamazonia earned more than 150,000 mentions in one day. But what can satellite data tell us about what is really happening in Brazil’s forests? Note: this analysis was conducted using fire data […]
Amapá Police Use Forest Watcher to Defend the Brazilian Amazon
On the morning of June 8th, Chief of Police for the state of Amapá in Brazil, Leonardo Brito, and his field team set out for a remote patch of the Amazon in search of deforestation. They were following the guidance of a team member stationed back at their base, verifying an area that had come […]
Technical Blog: Comparing GFW’s 2017 tree cover loss data to official estimates in Brazil
New data on global tree cover loss shows a sustained record high in Brazil. At first glance, the University of Maryland data released on Global Forest Watch can seem to tell a different story than official national estimates. PRODES, the official Brazilian government forest monitoring system, reported 0.69 million hectares of loss in the Brazilian […]
Technical Blog: Soy Data for Brazil’s Cerrado
By Sarah Sargent and Ryan Sarsfield Taken by Paulo Q Maia (Flickr). License information here. Global Forest Watch (GFW) Commodities recently released new data and analysis for soybean production in Brazil’s Cerrado biome, a mix of forest and savannah rich with biodiversity and carbon. These data show users the spatial extent of soy production and how […]