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Below a dense, lush Rainforest Canopy... a Rainforest Floor ('the Jungle') is shrouded in dim light


‘’Our planet is home to some three trillion trees — roughly four hundred for every person on Earth.’’

-- "Trees of Life" by Max Adams


"More than half the trees that once grew on the planet have been cut down" ...


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October 2025

Global Forest Watch and Forest Resources Assessment, Explained

Tracking latest reports of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Global Forest Watch (GFW).


Ultimately, our knowledge of global forests remains incomplete, and we need all the information we can get...


GFW’s monitoring systems rely entirely on biophysical criteria — related to height, canopy cover and extent of trees. GFW does not adopt a specific definition of forest, but rather monitors all forms of tree cover including natural forests and tree plantations. Using GFW’s interactive online platform, users can filter this data based on their preferred definition of forest. Users can select by canopy cover percent, as well as tree height. Users can also view and derive statistics using other data sets that give additional context on the land use, such as primary forests, natural forests and planted trees.


Read more about Global Forest Watch at GreenPolicy360:


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Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists / Earth Right Now / Earth Science Vital Signs

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Mapping Our Living Earth

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"Good science needs good data"

-- Steve Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Founder-Siterunner


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Measure-to-Manage

* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp,_OCO-2,_June_2014_m.jpg


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Global Forest Restoration and Reforestation Projects


Forests: Sinks or Sources?

Tropical forests now emit more carbon than they are able to absorb from the atmosphere as a result of the dual effects of deforestation and land degradation, a new study says.

The research challenges the long-held belief that forests act as “carbon sinks” by storing more carbon than they emit due to natural processes and human activity.


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Goal: To Plant Millions, Tens of Millions, Hundreds of Millions of Trees


Bonn Challenge -- http://www.bonnchallenge.org/content/challenge

(Blog) http://www.bonnchallenge.org/blog
http://www.bonnchallenge.org/content/get-involved


The Bonn Challenge is a global effort to restore 150 million hectares of the world's deforested and degraded lands by 2020 and 350 million hectares by 2030.

The first Bonn Challenge pledge to reach its restoration goal -- Pakistan's Billion Tree Tsunami

● Pakistani province plants one billion trees...

● One Billionth Tree


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Monitoring Forest 'Health'

Recalling "You can manage only what you can measure"


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According to Global Change Biology, "Virtually all U.S. forests are now experiencing change and are vulnerable to future declines..."

● http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/du-nau022216.php

● https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=132709

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● http://news.sciencemag.org/plants-animals/2015/08/special-issue-forest-health-changing-world

● https://youtu.be/ddmyMveokjg


Forests and woodlands cover about 20% of Earth's land surface, spanning all but the highest latitudes. In the millennia since humans dispersed across all forested continents, we have transformed large areas of natural forest. Historically, our greatest impacts were made in temperate regions, but they now extend to forests in the tropics and the boreal zone. Only a fraction of the forests present centuries ago have escaped human influence; in many regions the forest is gone, has regrown as secondary forest, or consists of managed and plantation forests. Humans have also introduced new species, including pests and pathogens of trees. Other influences — such as climate warming that causes tree species to shift geographically and anthropogenic drought that causes forest dieback — take effect more slowly...


Via National Science Foundation


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Friends of GreenPolicy360

Rebecca Moore, founder of Google Earth Outreach, a 'Planet Citizen' and Bioneers inspiration


Go Rebecca!

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Measuring and Monitoring Forests for Effective Management and Protection


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Global Forest Watch Launches


“We are honored to partner with WRI and power the Global Forest Watch platform with Google cloud technology, massive data and turbo-powered science,” said Rebecca Moore, Engineering Manager, Google Earth Outreach and Earth Engine. “GFW is an ambitious vision, and yet it’s both timely and achievable given WRI's knowledge of environmental science and policy, strong partnerships, and the high-performance Google cloud technology that we’re donating to this initiative.”


Google Outreach continues its impact


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Sharing the Data


Global Forest Watch Org

World Resources Institute

Monitoring the world's forests


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Google Outreach / Global Forest Watch continues on ...





News of Forests

Global Forest Watch Snapshot of Action in the Field -- February 2017

https://twitter.com/globalforests
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/01/logging-in-certified-concessions-driving-intact-forest-loss-in-congo-basin/
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/02/the-philippines-declares-more-than-100000-acres-as-critical-habitat/
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/02/scientists-launch-expedition-to-find-missing-monkeys/
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/01/revolutionary-new-biodiversity-maps-reveal-big-gaps-in-conservation/


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GreenPolicy360 Siterunner, Steve Schmidt: Take a trip back 1970s and 1980s and come along on first-of-their-type journeys into the unexplored Rainforests, up into the Canopy and a staggeringly complex biosphere of life.

Accompany a pioneer of science, Donald Perry, up above and swinging in a 'canopy web'...

Learn of inventing 'zip-lines', a 'tram for science observations', new ways of doing biology in the richest biosphere that was not yet seen and just beginning to be valued. The role of forests and climate was in its earliest phases. A living and an essential environment needed to be protected was being brought into the light...

GreenPolicy360's Siterunner writes about the 'Jacques Cousteau of the Rainforest' -- Don Perry. We arranged publication worldwide. Don was revealing forest life as it had never before been seen... This was an eco-story, a forests story that carried a vital message.


Up above with Don Perry


A brave pioneer of science goes up into the Rainforest....


Life Above the Jungle Floor

by Don Perry


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Published in 1986


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Rainforest Canopy Don Perry


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