Understanding the state of the forests and tracking the progress towards national and international targets, is a fundamental for conservation forest outcomes. Many targets included into international and national strategies are related with forest to ensure the conservation, sustainable use and restoration of forests. The forest change statistics showed here for ACP countries are based on global products derived from earth observation. The forest cover for the reference year 2000 and change statistics (gain 2000- 2012, and loss 2000-2021) were produced at a spatial resolution of 30 m by the analyses of remote sensing images acquired by Landsat satellites, as described in Hansen et al. (2013).

Analysis performed in Google Earth Engine by Simona Lippi. BIOPAMA API