Deforestation in Conflict Areas in 2020
Publisher: Conflict and Environment Observatory
Author(s): Eoghan Darbyshire
Date: 2021
Topics: Renewable Resources
Countries: Colombia, Congo (DRC), Myanmar, Senegal, South Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Vietnam
In this report, Eoghan Darbyshire assesses the current state of forest loss in conflict areas, surveying the changes and hotspots in the past 15 months during the COVID-19 pandemic. This is achieved by combining recently released global forest loss maps, deforestation alerts on the Global Forest Watch platform, and high-resolution imagery recently made publicly available by the Norwegian government.