SERVIR Applied Sciences Team helping African countries track and protect forests
With a growing population, increased demand for agricultural land and fuel wood are depleting Africa's forests.
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With a growing population, increased demand for agricultural land and fuel wood are depleting Africa's forests.
Results of a SERVIR Applied Sciences Team (AST) project are helping to identify areas where reforestation will help endangered species of great apes.
This collection of case studies is a companion to the SERVIR Service Planning Toolkit. It provides concrete examples from SERVIR’s experience, and that of our partners, applying the Service Planning approach.
Deforestation and habitat fragmentation in the tropics represent major threats to biodiversity and contribute to carbon emissions.
According to the World Wildlife Fund, over 2 billion people rely on forests for shelter, livelihoods, water, food, and fuel security. Forests even help renew our air supply, as they take in large amounts of carbon dioxide and release oxygen.
Greening Prey Lang, a USAID program, used Collect Earth Online (CEO) as part of their efforts to protect critical forestland in Cambodia and improve the lives of the people who live there.
Deforestation is a critical issue in Mesoamerica and the Caribbean. SERVIR has developed two online mapping and analysis tools to help policymakers in these regions conserve forests.
In the context of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded SilvaCarbon initiative, the US Forest Service (USFS) will be hosting a webinar to introduce an online training course on Remote Sensing for Forest Cover Change Detection using freely available, open source software (QGIS and Google Earth Engine).
The forests of Vietnam support the livelihoods of over 24 to 30 million rural people in Vietnam. Deforestation has serious effects on biodiversity, threatening the safety of millions of inhabitants as well as wildlife.
The crucial role forests play in our world cannot be underestimated. To enhance preservation and monitoring of this natural resource, SERVIR and SilvaCarbon launched a series of global workshops this year in West Africa, Eastern and Southern Africa, Hindu-Kush Himalaya, and the Lower Mekong region on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) applications.