Forest Map
Tap any place — see forest cover, primary-forest extent, protected-area share, and one concrete next step that fits the country. Country shading from the FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment and UNEP-WCMC WDPA via the World Bank Open Data API; intact-forest-landscape extent from the IFL Mapping Project. Refreshed once a day.
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 (IFL Mapping Project, 2020 vintage). The closest publicly-available proxy for old growth at the country level.
How this map works
- Country shading shows live data fetched per visit:
- Forest cover (% of land) — FAO 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 WDPA via World Bank.
- Intact-forest-landscape extent (% of land) — IFL 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 IFL 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 — FAO 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, IUCN, 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 USFS/BLM Mature & Old-Growth Forests Inventory; for elsewhere, the Global Forest Watch dashboard publishes admin-1-level statistics. See methodology.