vasco 4 days ago

Happy to be your personal google, gives me an excuse to look at it again.

This dashboard is good for that https://www.globalforestwatch.org/dashboards/global/?categor...

This visualization is also good: https://ourworldindata.org/deforestation

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  • internet_points 4 days ago

    Thanks for these pointers, I really didn't mean for you to go out looking, was just complaining a bit about the presentation of that first site ;-)

    Interestingly, the first forest watch loss (pink blob) I zoomed in on there turned out to be a project initiated by a local environmental organization to restore an island to its original farmland (as it had been up until a century ago and for centuries before) with wild sheep keeping the trees down, small bushes and wide range of local flowers instead of deep tree cover. And the nearest "forest gain" (blue blob) was a park tree. As Yolland the disenchanted mapmaker said, "Something is being eroded."

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