Alexander Watson - OpenForests

Interactive Story Setting

Create the setting and environment for your story and allow your audience to freely explore your project via multimedia. Instead of actively telling the story, you can gather various information and organize them in a multimedia platform or web map...

March 23, 2019

Articles

Transparency and Open Data

The vulnerability of being more transparent has become a competitive advantage. Being open and generous with information makes you appear a less risky associate to your stakeholders. Transparency brings light onto the work you are doing. Therefore, if you are...

March 22, 2019

Articles

Web maps as a connecting element

The beauty of web maps is that they allow us like no other medium to tell the story of a forest landscape project in multi-dimensions. Only during the last few years has web technology enabled us to use maps more...

March 20, 2019

Carbon Credits and Certifications are not enough

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Carbon Credits and Certifications are not enough

Nature is more than a simple carbon sinking machine! Carbon credits are valuable but conceptual. A story that showcases the transformation of a degraded landscape into a green oasis is much more tangible than purely aligning success with the number...

March 12, 2019

Podcast

Beyond the Canopy Podcast – From a cattle ranch to agroforestry

Interview with Juan Bronson, Izabal Agro-Forest, Guatemala. SUMMARY Can only industrial monoculture forest plantations yield high returns? In this episode, we are going to challenge this paradigm of either returns or sustainability. We will do that together with my Guest...

March 7, 2019

Podcast

Beyond the Canopy – About this podcast

Trailer of the Forest Landscape Stories (newly Beyond the Canopy) podcast. We are going to talk about inspiring examples in sustainable forest landscape restoration. Science gives evidence, that climate change is already harming the world’s ecosystems. However, people were more...

March 7, 2019

Articles

Images in Trees

How imagination connects us with our environment. After 23 years of searching and discovering, my curiosity has only increased. Now I want to know everything! Paul Rolans As ecologists, natural resources managers, foresters and conservationists we are working in, and...

February 1, 2019

The 3 principles of how to share your landscape story with the world

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The 3 principles of how to share your landscape story with the world

Authenticity, context, and transparency. Image of the image gallery of the REDD + Tambopata — Bahuaja Project. Click the image to visit the project presentation. (© Asociación para la Investigación y Desarrollo Integral — AIDER). Explore the project. Discovering a good landscape story is...

January 9, 2019

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OpenForests in Mongabay

Information-based solutions for forest conservation projects To the article Forest monitoring has experienced a revolution in recent years, with vast improvements in satellite sensors, the emergence of drones, and growing ubiquity of on-the-ground technologies like smartphones and camera traps. These...

November 29, 2018

Articles

Let your project story grow

There is no project success without a good story Every project story is like a little seedling. You need to find a suitable site to plant it and a community that provides shelter. With the help of a continuous supply of...

November 6, 2018

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Author: Alexander Watson

Interactive Story Setting

Transparency and Open Data

Web maps as a connecting element

Carbon Credits and Certifications are not enough

Beyond the Canopy Podcast – From a cattle ranch to agroforestry

Beyond the Canopy – About this podcast

Images in Trees

The 3 principles of how to share your landscape story with the world

OpenForests in Mongabay

Let your project story grow

Not all forests are the same: why planting trees isn’t the same as restoring a forest

Europe’s Heat Wave is a Nature Crisis

Carbono Biodiverso: Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda’s local carbon protocol brings transparency and community benefit to Mexico’s sub-national carbon market

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