Global Forest Watch data: Global Tree Cover loss, Carbon data and Primary Forest loss

Both datasets are available on the Global Forest Watch website on their Dashboard. The Datasets on their Dashboard are updated from time to time and can differ from the ones uploaded here. The datasets provided here are used for supporting analysis of a journal article about REDD+ in countries with high forest and low deforestation rates (HFLD).

References:
Hansen M C et al 2013 High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change Science 342 850–3, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1239552

Harris N L et al 2021 Global maps of twenty-first century forest carbon fluxes Nature Clim Change 11 234–40, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-00976-6

Turubanova S, Potapov P V, Tyukavina A and Hansen M C 2018 Ongoing primary forest loss in Brazil, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Indonesia Environ. Res. Lett. 13 74028, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aacd1c

University of Maryland and World Resources Institute "Global Primary Forest Loss". Accessed through Global Forest Watch, www.globalforestwatch.org (accessed 12 Sep 2022)