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According to Global Forest Watch, from 2001 to 2020, most of the loss of forest cover in the Philippines took place in Palawan. Other provinces that have lost significant forest cover are Agusan del Sur, Zamboanga del Norte, Davao Oriental, and Quezon Province. [16]
Global Forest Watch (GFW) is an open-source web application to monitor global forests in near real-time. GFW is an initiative of the World Resources Institute (WRI), with partners including Google, USAID, the University of Maryland (UMD), Esri, Vizzuality and many other academic, non-profit, public, and private organizations.
[153] [154] According to Global Forest Watch, this was a 3.1% decrease in primary rain forest in that period. [155] In 2014, the Map of the Peruvia Amazon showed that more than 25% of the lost forest area was part of idigenous territories and protected natural areas. [156] During 2020, the Peruvian amazon lost more than 200 000 hectares. [157]
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Meanwhile, the NTFP-EP Philippines country office was formerly called the Non-Timber Forest Products Task Force. [10] The names were later shortened and re-organized to its current form in 2012. Today, the organization has fully established country offices in Quezon City, Bogor , and Phnom Penh with smaller country offices in Kotagiri , Miri ...
However, relevant data shows destructive land use increased significantly in the eighteenth century when Spanish colonialism enhanced its extraction of the archipelago's resources for the early modern global market. [4] The Philippines is projected to be one of the most vulnerable countries to the impacts of climate change, [5] which would ...
The Bay Area Tropical Forest Network, a social network in the San Francisco Bay Area, [20] was an additional project under Mongabay.org that ran from 2009 until 2019, hosting over 100 in-person events at dozens of venues. Mongabay.org is a member of the Global Investigative Journalism Network. [21]
The UN Strategic Plan for Forests 2017 - 2030 features a set of six Global Forest Goals and 26 associated targets to be reached by 2030. One important target is to increase forest area by three percent worldwide by 2030. [21] The Global Forest Goals Report 2021 drew on quantitative and bio-physical data primarily from FRA 2020. [22]