Workshop: Forest Concession Monitoring System in Central Africa

Douala, Cameroon, March 1-2, 2004

GFW, in collaboration with Interafrican Forest Industries Association (IFIA), World Conservation Union (IUCN) and World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), brought together the key forest stakeholders for a two day workshop to select forest concession monitoring indicators for a regional forest reporting system. This system will independently document the industry's logging practices in the region, and highlight the companies that are making the most significant strides toward sustainability. The workshop was a success due, in part, to the support from the German government (BMZ), World Bank, U.S. Forest Service, and the USAID Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment. For information, contact: Jim Beck (jbeck@wri.org). (English) (Français).

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Workshop on Building Transparency in the Forest Sector in Brazil

Chapada dos Guimarães, Mato Grosso state, Brazil, October 23-24, 2003

Hosted by Instituto Centro de Vida (ICV), in collaboration with WRI, GFW, Instituto do Homen e Meio Ambiente de Amazonia (IMAZON), and ABN AMRO/Banco Real. This workshop gathered civil society and NGO monitoring groups, government officials responsible for detecting and monitoring illegal forest activities, and investors, producers and buyers in the forest sector to discuss what data is needed, and what mechanisms could be developed to make information on forest use publicly available. The workshop was presented to the USAID/Brazil Environment Program annual meeting November 16-19, 2003. View in Portuguese: general description, brochure & presentation. For information contact: Janice Wiles, South America Project Manager at jwiles@wri.org.

GFW at the World Forestry Congress

QUEBEC CITY, September 23, 2003 - Natural Resources Canada, the Forest Products Association of Canada, Global Forest Watch Canada, and World Resources Institute announced an agreement to cooperate to enhance Canada's forest information. The agreement was released during the World Forestry Congress in Québec, Canada. Global Forest Watch attended WFP to present at Global Forest Watch Canada's side event "Remaining Wildlands in Canada's Forested Regions" and at Greenpeace's side event "The Last Large Intact Areas: Mapping a Future for the World's Ancient Forests."

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Canada’s Large Intact Forest Landscapes

OTTAWA, September 15, 2003 - Canada’s Large Intact Forest Landscapes was launched today by Global Forest Watch Canada at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Canada.

The report is the first analysis of its kind ever performed in Canada, and is the result of a multiyear mapping effort by GFW in Canada. Using a combination of satellite imagery, GIS, ancillary data sources and ground verification, GFW has produced maps that identify intact forest landscapes.

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Workshop Recommendations on “Monitoring and Reporting Needs in Support of the African Forest Law Enforcement and Governance (AFLEG) Process”

From March 11-13, 2003, The Ministry of Environment and Forests of Cameroon (MINEF) and the World Resources Institute (WRI) jointly sponsored a workshop in Douala, Cameroon to provide recommendations that can be of used for the Cameroonian and other African governments to shape the outcomes of the ministerial AFLEG conference in Yaoundé, 14-18 October 2003. More than 35 participants representing African governments, timber industry, NGOs, and the donor community participated in drafting these recommendations, which could be included in the AFLEG ministerial declaration.
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Workshop Report on “Best Practices for Detecting Illegal and Destructive Commercial Logging”

A three-day workshop on “Best Practices for Detecting Illegal and Destructive Commercial Logging” was held in Washington, D.C., May 29-31, 2002.

The meeting brought together practitioners from NGOs and   civil society groups in 12 countries that work on detecting illegal logging.  Meeting participants exchanged practical on-the-ground knowledge regarding the detection and monitoring of illegal logging activities using a variety of methods ranging from field investigations and paper audits to the use of satellite data.  Discussions included how to best design and manage a field investigation and how to communicate investigative results.   Best practices were identified and outlined for each detection method.   The results from the workshop were shared with a broader audience during a plenary session on the third day, at which workshop participants presented 5 case studies that highlighted best practices for detection and monitoring, and provided examples of how detection and monitoring activities are acting as catalysts for better forest management. To learn more about the workshop and participants’ presentations, please click here.

Download GFW Satellite Imagery

More than 100 Landsat 7 satellite images purchased by Global Forest Watch are now available for Russia, Chile, and Canada. Scenes can be downloaded for a nominal fee of $50. These images were used for GFW’s The Last Intact Forest Landscapes of Northern European Russia and forthcoming reports on the status of forests in Chile and Canada.

All Landsat and Aster images that were used for the Atlas of Russia's Intact Forest Landscapes are available at the website of GFW/Russia partner Transparent World.

Custom-Made Maps from the GFW Interactive Map Server

Create a map showing precisely the layers that interest you. Map GFW data for Canada, Central Africa Indonesia or Venezuela. You may also view the World Resources Institute’s Frontier Forest data for Africa, Asia, Eurasia, North America, Russia, South America, Oceania, or make a global map.