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Preventing Forest Fires in Indonesia: Focus on Riau Province, Peatland, and Illegal Burning

  • Climate
  • fire
  • forests
  • Haze
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires
A comprehensive, proactive fires prevention plan, with a special emphasis on key subdistricts in Riau Province—involving government, business, and NGOs—can help ensure that Indonesia’s forests continue generating economic, social, and environmental benefits for years to come. Photo credit: Wakx/Flickr
  • Climate
  • fire
  • forests
  • Haze
  • Indonesia
  • Indonesia forest fires

FORMA: A Near-Real Time Alert System for Tropical Forest Loss

  • Climate
  • deforestation
  • forests
The FORMA team, which started at the Center for Global Development and moved to the Data Lab at WRI, was inspired by the DETER and SAD forest monitoring systems covering the Brazilian Amazon. Photo Credit: CIFOR/Flickr 2011
  • Climate
  • deforestation
  • forests

9 Maps that Explain the World's Forests

  • deforestation
  • forests
  • maps
  • palm oil
Global Forest Watch is an online forest monitoring system created by the World Resources Institute and more than 40 partners. Photo credit: Marco Simola/CIFOR
  • deforestation
  • forests
  • maps
  • palm oil

New High-Resolution Forest Maps Reveal World Loses 50 Soccer Fields of Trees Per Minute

  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • maps
  • monitoring
  • forests
  • Global Forest Watch (GFW)
  • maps
  • monitoring