Any ideas how we could improve this?

Today, we are also integrating the data into our Plant-for-the-Planet platform. That way, donors can see if their trees may have been affected.

Here's an example: pp.eco/plant-for-ghana

The app notifies you if NASA or ESA satellites detect forest fires in or near your project sites for free. Projects in over 100 countries use FireAlert.

2. Understanding which landscapes can regenerate naturally and which need interventions to help in their recovery

Land abandonment will be a major development over the next 100 years, and we should be much more intentional about managing that development by:
1. Redirecting agricultural production to already converted land so we don’t destroy new primary ecosystems

This presents an enormous opportunity: We can gradually restore healthy, vibrant ecosystems every year.

But that’s much easier said than done. Dan Charles wrote about what abandoned agricultural land looks like in practice.

A lot more research is needed to figure out which of the many policies are most effective. Looking forward to learning more!

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How they are repeating the success now:
“Experts say Lula’s government simply switched the lights back on”, Chase-Lubitz writes.
1. Key institutions like IBAMA and INPE received major budget increases.
2. The environment ministry received a lot more influence.

How did the Brazilian government succeed in the early 2000s:

1. Rapidly expanding protected areas and indigenous land
2. Upgrading to real-time satellite data to detect deforestation as the basis for enforcement
3. Temporarily freezing ag. subsidies to high deforestation municipalities

@jessechaselubitz.bsky.social reports how President Lula is rapidly cutting deforestation. It would be an unprecedented public policy success, if not for the fact that this is the second time he is achieving this.

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