Using Digital Tools to Uncover Environmental Stories
Madeleine Ngeunga
Regional Editor - Africa
What is happening in the forests around you?
Forest destruction, wildlife trafficking…
Why digital tools
Environmental issues are complex and interconnected from one country to another.
It is an effective way of verifying facts, exploring insights and telling compelling stories about environment.
It allows you to deal with large scales of space and time!
Geo data in environmental stories
Analyse Forest change and investigate trends in forest loss anywhere in the world
Data on land use, land cover, forest change over the years.
Through a simple, chat-style interface, users can ask plain-language questions and receive clear, data-driven answers—complete with maps, statistics, and context.
Data on forest and land cover change
Uses satellite imageries to deepen your research
Timber Hustling: Lia, a Thriving Hub for Congolese Mahogany Trafficked to Uganda, Kenya
Planet Explorer (high res, not free)
https://www.planet.com/explorer/
Tips: Get free access through NICFI program
COPERNICUS BROWSER (free, but lower res)
https://browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu/
Google Earth Pro (free, desktop version)
https://www.google.com/earth/versions/#earth-pro
Sentinel Hub EO Browser
https://apps.sentinel-hub.com/eo-browser/
NASA Worldview
https://worldview.earthdata.nasa.gov/
Protected Planet
https://www.protectedplanet.net/en
Global Forest Watch
https://www.globalforestwatch.org/
Natural Earth
https://www.naturalearthdata.com/�
NASA Earth Data
https://earthdata.nasa.gov/��Resource Watch
https://resourcewatch.org/data/explore�
Earth Map
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Looking for satellite images
Where to find satellite images
Where to find geospatial data
For more specific data on countries, EITI is a good place to go…55 countries covered
Global Official Commodities Trade data with details by country…
In this RIN story, the journalists visited the villages affected by the timber concession transformed into a palm oil plantation. We use used wikiloc to map distances and show villages’ proximity to the concession area on a map.
A digital tool to gather evidence in the field
THANK YOU!