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Powerful Amazonian women defending their territory
Erika and Paola, FENAMAD's Forestry Monitors, strengthen the monitoring of their communities with geospatial data During the month of April, the SERVIR-Amazonia Program, with the support of Amazon Conservation (ACCA), a Program partner in Peru, organized a training...
Restoring soils in continental Ecuador, now a more feasible goal with new Digital Chemical Fertility Map
50% of Ecuador's soils are being degraded. This situation demands special attention, as it leads to the reduction of water sources and increases vulnerability to climatic events in agriculture, which puts food security at risk. Faced with this challenge, a 'Digital...
Launching of a new geospatial service to monitor and protect mangroves in Guyana
In Guyana, mangroves are crucial for wave attenuation, and their intricate root systems help in sediment binding. As a result, they lower erosion rates while also acting as a key barrier during severe storms. Mangroves play a vital role in carbon capture and they...
Monitoring & Evaluation of Mangroves in Guyana
Fire Forecasts July-September 2022 (Western Amazon)
July-September 2022 climate forecast points to a mild to slightly above normal fire season in western Amazon, similar to 2021
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...
Satellite Monitoring Offers New Hope for Controlling Fires to Curb Environmental Damage in the Amazon
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...
Technology, information, and geospatial data to strengthen response capacity to climate change in Barbados
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...
Improving Forest Classification of the Brazilian National Forest Inventory using the CEO Platform
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...
Women in GIS advance their prosperity in the workplace
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.
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