Forest Map
Tap any place — see forest cover, extent, protected-area share, and one concrete next step that fits the country. Country shading from the Global Forest Resources Assessment and UNEP-WCMC via the World Bank Open Data API; intact-forest-landscape extent from the Mapping Project. Refreshed once a day.
Interactive map unavailable — pick a country
Opens on a country with significant intact-forest landscape. Use search or the worst-list to explore your own region.
Act now — what you can do
Curated, link-out-only. Pick a country on the map to see actions tailored to its situation.
Worst by indicator
Top 12 countries on the active indicator. Click a row to fly there and see actions.
Largest remaining intact-forest landscapes
Top countries by remaining intact-forest-landscape extent ( Mapping Project, 2020 vintage). The closest publicly-available proxy for at the country level.
How this map works
- Country shading shows live data fetched per visit:
- Forest cover (% of land) — Global Forest Resources Assessment via World Bank Open Data, latest year per country.
- 5-year forest-cover change — computed from the same time series; coloured darkest where forest is being lost fastest.
- Protected terrestrial area (% of land) — UNEP-WCMC via World Bank.
- Intact-forest-landscape extent (% of land) — Mapping Project, 2020 vintage, served as a static curated seed.
- Click anywhere to see one concrete next step. The recommender derives a country profile from the four indicators above plus the country's biome and surfaces a use-case-matched action with named, citable organisations.
- Largest remaining intact-forest landscapes ranks countries by the Mapping Project’s 2020 extent — that’s the closest publicly-available proxy for old growth at the country level. Definitions and methodology are at intactforests.org.
- Freshness. The World Bank indicators are pulled on a daily schedule, normalised into a single tiny payload, and served to every visitor. Your browser only ever talks to our own server for the data. Result: same-day freshness, one upstream call per day regardless of audience size, deliberately negligible running costs, and a polite footprint on the public agencies whose data we re-share.
- No accounts. No tracking. No upload. Outbound calls from the browser: our own server (live data + borders) and OpenFreeMap (basemap).
Sources: country borders — Natural Earth (public domain); basemap — OpenFreeMap & OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); forest cover and forest-cover change — Global Forest Resources Assessment via World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0); protected terrestrial area — UNEP-WCMC World Database on Protected Areas via World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0); intact-forest-landscape extent — Intact Forest Landscapes Mapping Project (Potapov et al., 2020 vintage; CC BY 4.0); rendering — MapLibre GL JS (BSD-3); action catalog assembled from public materials of named, vetted organisations: Rainforest Foundation US, Survival International, Amazon Frontlines, Mighty Earth, Stand.earth, Wilderness Committee, the Forest Stewardship Council, the Society for Ecological Restoration, , Trees for the Future, iNaturalist, OpenStreetMap, Global Forest Watch.
National figures hide local realities. Switching to sub-national data requires regional surveys; for the United States, see the /BLM Mature & Old-Growth Forests Inventory; for elsewhere, the Global Forest Watch dashboard publishes admin-1-level statistics. See methodology.