Forests
Protected areas
WDPA / Protected Planet: parks, reserves, and other protected polygons: coverage on paper, not always protection on the ground.
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Tree-cover loss
Hansen / Global Forest Watch: where tree cover was lost, including clearing, fire, and harvest: not only “deforestation.”
Map: Fix Planet from Hansen Global Forest Change lossyear, version 2024 v1.12. Colour is the share of 30 m pixels lost from 2001 to 2024, counted on a 0.02° grid. Boundaries: Natural Earth.
Hansen and colleagues at the University of Maryland map annual tree-cover loss from Landsat. Global Forest Watch (World Resources Institute) serves the layer. NASA Earth observations sit behind the same satellites. Loss is a change in canopy, not automatically a conversion of primary forest.
Source
Hansen / University of Maryland; Global Forest Watch; NASA
Vintage: 2001-2024
https://www.globalforestwatch.org/
License
Hansen Global Forest Change is CC BY 4.0 (Hansen / UMD / Google / USGS / NASA). The map counts 30 m lossyear pixels from 2001 to 2024 on a 0.02° grid. Open the GFW map for the interactive layer.
How to read it
The colour is the share of 30 m pixels in each cell that lost tree cover from 2001 to 2024. Plantations, fire, and storm damage count as loss. A country total hides the frontier. Global Forest Watch serves the interactive layer.
Caveats
Tree cover is not primary forest. Some loss is legal harvest. Some intact forest is already degraded. Global Forest Watch documents the definitions.
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Forests
Intact Forest Landscapes
Intact Forest Landscapes in 2020: wilderness-scale forest mosaics from the IFL Mapping Team, not Hansen annual loss pixels and not park boundaries.
Read the card →Source: Intact Forest Landscapes: data download (this plate is 2020)
Forests
Mangrove extent
Global Mangrove Watch version 3 extent for 2020: tidal forest shoreline, not inland Hansen loss and not WDPA parks.
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Primary humid tropical forests
UMD GLAD 30 m map of primary humid tropical forest extent for 2001 (Turubanova et al.), a primary baseline, not annual Hansen loss and not IFL wilderness size rules.
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Fix Planet overview Forests
Forest Landscape Integrity Index
Grantham et al. continuous integrity score for the world’s forests (~2019), anthropogenic modification and connectivity, not Hansen loss alone and not WDPA coverage.
Read the card →Source: Grantham et al. 2020: Nature Communications (FLII paper)