by SERVIR Team | Aug 4, 2022 | English
Fires in the Amazon are the result of human activities that (usually) begin with slash and burn practices to clear the land for the introduction of agro-pastoral activities. For most part, fires occur over non-forest landscapes but can escape to standing forest edges...
by SERVIR Team | Jul 28, 2022 | English
A new approach for using satellite data to track and classify fires in and around the Amazon represents a major breakthrough in responding to the hundreds or thousands of fires occurring each day at the peak of the region’s fire season. Because these fires are a major...
by SERVIR Team | Jul 27, 2022 | English
On July 27, the SERVIR-Amazonia Program organized a User Needs Assessment Workshop in Barbados to discuss how geospatial information can be used to improve environmental decision-making. This workshop is part of an expansion of SERVIR-Amazonia’s work in the Caribbean...
by SERVIR Team | Jun 10, 2022 | Brazil, Capacity Development, English
The Brazilian Forest Service (Serviço Florestal Brasileiro-SFB) in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently held a hybrid workshop to support the Brazilian National Forest Inventory (IFN-BR) in its effort of forest...
by SERVIR Team | Jun 6, 2022 | Capacity Development, English, Stakeholder engagement
A group of 23 women from Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana and Peru, attended the training “Advancing Women’s Prosperity in the Workplace.” This course was conducted by Arizona State University and the SERVIR-Amazonia Program with funding from SERVIR Global. These...
by SERVIR Team | May 27, 2022 | Capacity Development, Caribbean, Climate Change, Ecosystem Management, English, Mangroves Monitoring
SERVIR-Amazonia began the second quarter of 2022 by visiting five Caribbean countries, expanding the geographic impact of its Program. The objective of the activity which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for a 2-years period...
