Now a team of researchers, led by NASA, has created the world’s first global map showing the height of the world’s forests (click here for interactive map), publishing their findings in the ...

Researchers have created a global map of the world’s forests in the year 1990, enabling accurate comparisons between past and current deforestation rates. The GIS data underpinning the map is ...

Two natural forest areas in central Laos have been certified under the Forest Stewardship Council, the leading international standard of good forest management. Vientiane, Lao PDR – Two natural forest ...

The first high-resolution global map of changes in forest cover over the last 12 years shows which parts of the world are losing forests at an alarming rate. Using Landsat satellite images of ...

The sang le forest in Tuong Duong is considered the most beautiful forest of its kind in Indochina. The forest covers more than 70 hectares, with many ancient sang le trees tens of meters high. There ...