During the last 40 years, Bolivia has been experiencing high land use and land cover changes. This December 2012, Louis Reymondin and Alejandro Coca spent five days training a team of researchers to use and implement the Terra-i system at the headquarters of the Bolivian National System of Monitoring and Information (SNIB)…

The continuous surge in gold prices has lead to a rapid expansion of mining activities on the region of Madre de Dios in Peru in recent years. The number of unapproved mining activities have increased drastically in recent years here, contributing to significant losses of habitat. Terra-i illustrates the alarming deforestation rates…

Last Thursday, InfoAmazonia.org, a platform for interactive maps, published Terra i’s data on deforestation in the Amazon rainforest on their website….

DAPA research shows ~80% of species in South America to have one or more populations under threat due to human activities, and an scarying percent of roughly 15% of species with the majority of their populations under high risk of extinction.

Recent research shows a projected reduction between 12 and 21% in the tropical rainfall that feeds the Amazon basin by 2050.

Last week, Louis Reymondin, CIAT’s visiting researcher and main developer of the Terra-i system, was interviewed by CBS News. Terra-i, which was launched during the Rio+20 conference in Brazil, is a system for near real time land cover or habitat change monitoring over Latin America. To get Louis’s view on deforestation trends and an insight into the groundbreaking Terra-i system….

Apart from being the second largest forested area on the continent, the South American “Gran Chaco” region is also a biodiversity hotspot. Terra-i system has been able to track the alarming rates of habitat loss in Paraguayan Chaco (an increase of 388%, 2004-2011…

The endemic border dispute between Guatemala and Belize is no longer the unique fuel that drives the two countries’ popularity. Terra-i illustrates the contrasting scenarios surrounding deforestation on the Guatemala-Belize border between 2004 – 2010…

The Rio+20 U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development just recently ended. Forest were only mentioned in four paragraphs of thedraft text, and only then in vague references to biodiversity and conservation. Such indifference is truly worrying, given that during the last 20 years 300 million hectares of forest area were lost…

Terra-i, a system for near real time land cover or habitat change monitoring over Latin America, was launched during the controversial Rio+20 conference in Brazil. Mark Mulligan, of King’s College London, Louis Reymondin Ph.D supervisor, showed the power of the tool and potential applications during the multiple “Dialog days”…