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Private: GFW Seeks Applicants for 2019 Small Grants Fund and Tech Fellowship
By Jessica Webb Global Forest Watch is pleased to announce our call for applications for the 2019 Small Grants Fund and Tech Fellowship. The objective of these programs is to increase GFW’s impact by supporting organizations and individuals from eligible countries in tackling some of the world’s most pressing forest threats using big data and […]
Private: First-Ever GFW Tech Fellowship Now Open for Applications
By Jessica Webb Global Forest Watch and the World Resources Institute are pleased to announce the first-ever GFW Tech Fellowship. The Fellowship will scale the impact of GFW (a platform that has reached over one million users from every country in the world) by creating a cadre of changemakers and forest champions working on the […]
GFW User Profile: Madi Vorva
For this installment of GFW User Profiles, we spoke with Madi Vorva, a student at Pomona College and long-time forest activist. How did you become interested in forests? I’ve loved animals my entire life—I grew up playing in the woods behind my house with my brothers, which gave me an appreciation from the beginning. In […]
Zooming In: Unexpected Loss in Mbitom, Cameroon
By Benjamin Kessler, Thomas Maschler and Sarah Alix Mann Mbitom, an area in Cameroon’s East region, is experiencing unexplained tree cover loss. In order to identify the drivers of this loss, the GFW Cameroon team set out into the Mbitom forests to investigate. Click on the StoryMap to enter the interactive version.
GFW User Profile: Wenman Liu
For this installment of GFW User Profiles, we spoke with Wenman Liu, Ph.D. Candidate at Georgia Institute of Technology. How did you find out about GFW? I’ve been working on forest issues for a while. I was always searching the internet for forest-related data and had a pretty hard time finding stuff, so I actually found GFW […]
GFW User Profile: Sébastien Proust
For this installment of GFW User Profiles, we spoke with Sébastien Proust Alliance Coordinator for the Mexico-REDD Alliance Project in the Yucatan Peninsula (Coordinador del Proyecto alianza Mexico-REDD en la Península de Yucatán, Mexico), The Nature Conservancy. What organization do you work with? I work for The Nature Conservancy in Mexico, specifically in the Yucatan Peninsula. I […]