Intro to Ground Truth
Ground Truth is a publication documenting our journey to make environmental data free and transparent.
Interview: Alexander Watson of Explorer.land & OpenForests 🛰️
Alexander Watson of Explorer.land shares his thoughts on tree mapping software and digital storytelling for nature-based solutions.
Plantation Crops in Kerala: Cash, and Controversy 🌴💸
Can Kerala juggle being the go-to for eco-tourists and investors chasing that plantation gold rush?
Denmark’s Billion-Tree Bet 🌳
As of 2020, the country had 412,040 hectares of planted forests according to the nifty data provided by the FAO.
Planting Forests to Fight Droughts & Floods in Brazil 🇧🇷
Borges and Curcio say Brazil lacks the federal political will to take the country’s numerous restoration projects from a fragmented, small-scale approach to broad public policy that could be applied and enforced countrywide.
G20: Minister Highlights the Role of Agroecology 🌾
The minister reinforced that the agroforestry program gives priority to the recovery of the vegetation of the settlements created in the Amazon during the military dictatorship.
Open Geospatial Data Slashes Forestry Costs by 60% 🛰️💸
Monocultures still dominate Nordic forestry—67% of seedlings in Finland are Norway spruce.
Suma and Forus Tree Team Up for Calder Valley Planting🌳
Forus Tree’s fencing-first model offers a potential plastic-free alternative, but whether it can scale remains to be seen.
Carbon Projects Boom in DRC, But Are Communities Protected? 🌿
Moretti said the allure of carbon credits has enticed not just private companies like KMS, but also “a lot of development actors, NGOs and even government officials”.
Mass Data Haul Reveals Life after Wildfire
There are several ways frequent fire before the megafires could allow species to increase.
Open Foris Whisp: A Game-Changer for Forest Monitoring 🌳💻
At its core, Whisp is like a forest detective armed with satellite maps, land-use data, and tree-cover analyses.
COP29 Drills Down Forest Carbon Rules... in Theory 🌍💸
“This is not abstract bureaucracy,” he insisted. “These markets can drive real emissions reductions.”