{"id":169372,"date":"2025-04-03T16:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/activist\/how-to-catch-illegal-deforestation-in-the-act-the-understory\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T16:06:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:06:23","slug":"how-to-catch-illegal-deforestation-in-the-act-the-understory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=169372","title":{"rendered":"How to catch illegal deforestation in the act – The Understory"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Satellites get up close and personal with forest destroyers in the orangutan capital of the world<\/h2>\n
\"\"\/\t\tBy Timothy Workman<\/span><\/div>\n
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Intact forests cover about a tenth<\/a> of the world\u2019s surface. That\u2019s a lot of vegetation for deforestation-watchers to keep track of, but recent leaps in satellite imagery have made the job much easier.<\/p>\n

Far from the grainy Landsat 5 and 7 satellite images of the past\u2014which were nonetheless essential<\/a> to saving the Amazon from total destruction in the late 90s\u2014modern satellites can basically spy on orangutans from space.<\/p>\n

But our latest investigation<\/a> doesn\u2019t zoom in on orangutans as they forage for lychee or use simple tools<\/a>. Instead, we get up close and personal with illegal oil palm producers in Indonesia\u2019s Rawa Singkil Wildlife Reserve, the orangutan capital of the world.<\/p>\n

The high level of detail in these images helps us show that these oil palm producers are cutting down forests within time periods that corporations and even the E.U.<\/a> care about, which we can determine based on the age of individual oil palms.<\/p>\n

The following ultra-high resolution images, provided by the Airbus Pl\u00e9iades Neo, are the first of their kind for the Rawa Singkil Wildlife Reserve, and can be found in full on Nusantara Atlas<\/a>.<\/p>\n