Conserving what's left, renewal, growing new ones, and hearing from the many peoples facing loss of their communities due to the mismanagement and exploitation of forests this special collection gets its start with the launch of the Global Forest Watch (GFW)
GFW is a project where the World Resource Institute brought together fourteen major sponsors, including Rebecca Moore of Google Earth who pioneered the use of mapping to protect our lands and people, enables our citizens to participate in and benefit from an "open data approach in putting decision-relevant information in the hands of governments, companies, NGOs, and the public."
Related special collection on Earthsayers.tv is Biodiversity, Rights of Mother Earth, and the sustainability champion, Julia Butterfly.
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Screams of the Amazon by Fundacion Pachamama |
"The world has not done an analysis to decide whether oil is more valuable than what is lost by destroying the Amazon. We have so much. In order to debate on an economic level, we would have to conduct a thorough study to find out how much the Amazon could Produced by Pacha Producciones, Quito, Ecuador, 2013 EarthSayer Patricia Giualinga |
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Of Forests and Men with Edward Norton
The Forest is For All of Us by Community Leader Domingo Peas
Global Forest Watch | Monitoring Forests in Near Real Time
Twenty Years of Defending the Amazon.
The Reunion by Handcrafted Films
Altkin Count Strategic Forestry Plan
Excerpts from Two Speeches by Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin
High Conservation Value Forests
Screams of the Amazon by Fundacion Pachamama
What does He Plant Who Plants a Tree read by Jeremy Irons
Tourism, not Oil by Hilario Saant of Ecuador
On mapping and protecting our Forests by Rebecca Moore:
The Paradigm Project by Greg Spencer
Rapid, Dramatic Changes in What We Do by Randy Hayes
Trading Bows and Arrows for Laptops: Carbon and Culture
Rang-tan in My Bedroom by Iceland Foods
Google Earth Engine by Rebecca Moore
Kayapo leader Megaron Txukaramae
Woodlands of Ireland by Eco-Eye
Buying-up Eden - Chile
Climate change and forest managment Stéphane Le Goaster
Save Ireland Forests
Voices for Global Forest Watch by the WRI
Mapping the Worldâs Trees in Unprecedented Detail with AI
Fighting wildfires with intelligent robots | AI for Good Webinar
Global Forest Watch 2.0 preview at UN Forum on Forests