:: R e s o u r c e s
David Tryse has spent time painstakingly configuring an impressive database, useful in the monitoring of global deforestation. David aims to map protected areas and areas that are in conflict between landowner and state globally. In the future, with the co-operation of BMF, David and Myself aim to map the Penan Peace Park - Sarawak. Into a Google Earth KML for your research and personal use.
::Flooding Borneo's rainforest: Sarawak's confidential dam plans 2008-2020
This KML file shows information from a confidential Sarawak Energy Berhad (SEB) document leaked and published by the Bruno Manser Fund. It highlights the plans for a number of very large hydroelectric projects set to flood vast areas of rainforest and displace thousands of indigenous people, including Penan, Kelabit and Kenyah. One of the projects will even submerge part of a UNESCO World Heritage site!Open Google Earth file
::Disappearing Forests of the World..
This KML shows deforestation data from a number of sources for different countries, including a live ticker for each country.The world has lost close to half of its forests already today, and the continued high pace of deforestation contributes greatly to climate change and the loss of biodiversity.
Google Earth Outreach Showcase
Open Google Earth file
::Eyes on the Forest Sumatra: Google Maps Engine maps
Five maps created in Google Maps Engine to show data from the Eyes on the Forest site. New and updated data include Sumatra-wide historical deforestation up to 2012, case studies for the 2013 fire season which covered much of Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and large stretches of Sumatra in haze, maps showing rampant deforestation for palm oil inside the Tesso Nilo National Park and poison attacks on the park's elephants, as well as updated conservation value and eco-floristic sector data for all of Sumatra.
::Eyes on the Forest: Sumatra
This website was created for WWF Indonesia and the Eyes on the Forest coalition of local NGO's, to highlight the devastating loss of forest occurring on the island of Sumatra. As much as half of Sumatra's forests have been cleared since 1985, to make way for pulp, paper and palm oil production. Sumatra is the only place in the world where rhinos, tigers, elephants and orangutans all live together within the same forest landscapes.
The website was built to use the newly launched Google Maps Engine GIS cloud storage system to present large amounts of data on top of Google Maps.
http://earth.tryse.net
::Intact Forest Landscapes
"An Intact Forest Landscape (IFL) is a seamless mosaic of forest and naturally treeless ecosystems within the zone of current forest extent, which exhibit no remotely detected signs of human activity or habitat fragmentation and is large enough to maintain all native biological diversity, including viable populations of wide-ranging species. IFLs have high conservation value and are critical for stabilizing terrestrial carbon storage, harboring biodiversity, regulating hydrological regimes, and providing other ecosystem functions."
2006 The World's Last Intact Forest Landscapes (poster A1).
2014 The World's last Intact Forest Landscapes (poster A2).
High-resolution version PDF (1.2 Mb)