African Tropical Rainforest Observation Network

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the Global Forest Survey (FAO)

  • May, 2015

In May Simon Lewis attended the First Preparatory Committee Meeting of the Global Forest Survey, a new initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Simon gave a presentation about both the AfriTRON and RAINFOR networks, key results, plus the capabilities of ForestPlots.net.

The Global Forest Survey plans to sample the world’s forests using long-term monitoring plots measured to standardised protocols making all the data fully open access, to provide data on the status and changes in status of the world’s forests. It has been inspired, in part, by results from the RAINFOR and AfriTRON networks of tropical forest plots.