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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

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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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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

Failure as opportunity to think broad and deep

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Failure as opportunity to think broad and deep

How OpenForests poked the box and developed innovative Forest Information Services. Becoming a professional How do we become professionals? A general opinion is that we become professionals by gaining special skills through higher education and further training. My experience, however,...

October 26, 2018

Bamboo detection through Remote Sensing in Ethiopia

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Bamboo detection through Remote Sensing in Ethiopia

Land Cover detection through Remote Sensing The goal of this work was to determine the current land cover of a concession in Ethiopia. The sustainable management of forest concessions requires detailed information about the current land cover and the distribution...

October 17, 2018

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The Core Concept of Sustainability

No concept is more inflationary, misused and at the same time so important. This article outlines the importance of the initial sustainability concept and how it describes our relationship with the world and the nature over time. Today’s inflationary and...

August 23, 2018

6 principles that help to design a robust Forest Information System

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6 principles that help to design a robust Forest Information System

Costly missteps can be avoided by gaining a basic understanding of application development processes and design principles. Why are information systems needed? Thousands of forest operations and forest landscape projects run successfully using Excel files and Word documents. But there is...

July 5, 2018

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Remote Sensing for Forest Landscapes.

What you need to know to get it right! Introduction to remote sensing For whom? This article addresses professionals like foresters, ecologists, project developers, certifiers, and environmentalists (in the following called natural resources managers) who are new to the field of remote sensing...

June 7, 2018

Weak vs. Strong Sustainable Forest Management

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Weak vs. Strong Sustainable Forest Management

Where to draw the line? The debate goes on. What is sustainable and what is unsustainable forest management practice? It already starts with the definition of sustainability which has various concepts and is still in progress. As an introduction to this...

April 27, 2018

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Category: Articles

Carbon Credits and Certifications are not enough

Images in Trees

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

Let your project story grow

Failure as opportunity to think broad and deep

Bamboo detection through Remote Sensing in Ethiopia

The Core Concept of Sustainability

6 principles that help to design a robust Forest Information System

Remote Sensing for Forest Landscapes.

Weak vs. Strong Sustainable Forest Management

Standards behind monitoring data ensure transparency, consistency, and trust in restoration projects

Which Forest Layer should you use? Tree cover, Canopy cover and Natural forest explained

The Global Biodiversity Standard (TGBS): How It Verifies Biodiversity Recovery

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