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Global Forest Watch

Global Forest Watch collects crowdsourced, geographic data to track environmental degradation around the world.

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Since 1997
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It includes an ArcGIS online location data portal as well as thousands of authoritative datasets, references, and thematic maps about hundreds of topics. Governments, NGOs, academia, and industry provide data to track deforestation and campaign for more sustainable environmental practices.

Founded
1997
Language(s)
English
Tech stack
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Categories
Data science for social good, Learn about civic tech, The People
Tags
Life on land, forests
Added
2021-06-22
Last modified
2026-09-18T13:28:39.000Z

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Publisher
datacollaboratives.org
Number of integrations
0
Activity status
Unknown
Sustainable Development Goals
15. Life on land
Issues addressed
forests, fraud detection

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