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Coming Soon: Global Forest Watch 2.0

Global Forest Watch 2.0 is a powerful near real-time forest monitoring system that unites satellite technology, data sharing, and human networks around the world to fight deforestation.

Science Reinforces Human Role as Climate Change Impacts Accelerate

July 16, 2009
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

A new report of scientific findings confirms not only that human activity is the primary cause of rising temperatures, but that climate change impacts are accelerating.

WRI, EIA Form Partnership to Stem Illegal Forest Products Imported Into U.S.

December 4, 2008
Location: POZNAN, POLAND

The World Resources Institute and the Environmental Investigation Agency today launch a partnership to combat illegal logging worldwide and clean up timber supply chains.

Russia: Profile of Total ICT Spending and ICT Household Spending by Income Segment

October 14, 2008

In Eastern Europe and Latin America all measured countries show a top-heavy BOP spending pattern, illustrated here by Russia.

New Toolbox Demystifies Green Forest Product Purchasing

April 3, 2008
Location: WASHINGTON, D.C.

Corporate managers will now get powerful help with today’s release of a “Guide to the Guides” - a toolbox that helps them understand and find the best advice on how to purchase products originating from the world’s forests.

Leading Companies Responding to Ecosystem Degradation

March 10, 2008
Location: Montreux, Switzerland

Corporate Ecosystem Services Review road-tested by Akzo Nobel,

BC Hydro, Mondi, Rio Tinto, and Syngenta

Landscape Impact Assessment of Oil and Gas Industry in Russia

WRI and its partner environmental NGOs in Russia have begun the development of a methodology to assess the terrestrial footprint of the oil and gas industry on the Russian landscape.

Forest Landscapes Initiative

WRI seeks to increase the ability of governments, businesses, and civil society to protect intact forest landscapes, manage working forests more effectively, and restore deforested lands.

Mapping High Conservation Value Forests of Primorsky Kray, Russian Far East

English Summary: D. E. Aksenov; Contributors to the English text: Lars Laestadius, Volha Roshchanka, Susan Minnemeyer; Edited by: Isabel Munilla

September, 2006

Mapping less disturbed forest tracts, floodplain and bottomland ecosystems of intact river basins, naturally rare and unique forest communities, and rare and endangered plant species habitats – to aid regional conservation strategies.

Stocks and Flows: Carbon Inventory and Mitigation Potential of the Russian Forest and Land Base

Lars Laestadius, Ken Andrasko, Mikhail Gytarsky, Georgy Korovin, Brian Murray, Brent Sohngen, Anatoly Utkin, Dmitri Zamolodchikov

December, 2005

Assesses the forest carbon situation in Russia and makes the data available to researchers and policy makers.

Atlas of Russia's Intact Forest Landscapes

Lars Laestadius, Dmitry Dobrynin, Alexander Isaev, et. al.
October, 2002

The first-ever, detailed map of intact forest landscapes in Russia, and can be used to flag areas where special precautions must be taken before development decisions are made.

Last Intact Forest Landscapes of Northern European Russia

Alexey Yu. Yaroshenko, Peter V. Potapov, and Svetlana A. Turubanova (Greenpeace Russia). Editor of English version: Lars Laestadius (WRI). A joint publication of Greenpeace Russia and Global Forest Watch.

October, 2001

This first attempt at identifying boreal forest areas of minimal human disturbance (intact) using high-resolution satellite imagery reveals that only 14 percent or 32 million hectares of the boreal or northern forests of European Russia remain.