David Gaveau
@GaveauD
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A scientist & activist conducting studies & building monitoring systems to inform policies & public opinion about the causes & impacts of deforestation & fires.
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Joined September 2015
Visualize 44 years of forest loss and industrial plantation expansion (oil palm and pulpwood) in Borneo with my maps published today in National Geographic https://t.co/YCAKjyHqVH
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"The TreeMap has released satellite images of Bali from 1965. Now available on Nusantara Atlas, these images were captured by the KH-7 Gambit satellite, which was used on a top-secret U.S. reconnaissance mission during the Cold War." @timeout #Bali
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The declassified images on Nusantara Atlas offer a glimpse of Bali before the tourism boom.
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The southern part of Merauke is a remote wetland wilderness, a mosaic of dense evergreen rainforests on drier hills, interspersed with expansive savanna grasslands, woodlands, and Melaleuca forests. Some consider them not worth conserving. Draining the wetlands could exacerbate
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O dear, it appears that the National Strategic Programmes in food and energy plantations are completely transforming the landscape of South Papua, threatening indigenous peoples and critically important ecosystems. Source: @BentalaRakyat
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🇮🇩[Ep3] Kamu bisa monitor DEFORESTASI di INDONESIA ! (Website anti-hoax !) 🇬🇧 [Ep3] You can monitor the Indonesian forest !
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🇮🇩[Ep2] APA ITU HUTAN PRIMER ? Aku sendiri tidak tahu… 🇬🇧 [Ep2]What is a primary forest ? I don’t even know myself
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🌎 The TreeMap has created the first 10-meter resolution map of Indonesia’s mining land footprint, highlighting open mining pits and infrastructures. 🛰️This image shows Indonesia’s 2001-2023 mining land footprint, generated from Sentinel-2 and Planet/NICFI.
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Mapping mining from space To monitor Indonesia’s mining sector, we developed a “mining” map using high-resolution satellite imagery from Sentinel-2 and Planet/NICFI and two decades of historical Landsat images. This GIF is of a forest converted to artisanal gold and sand mining
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Hutan hilang digusur untuk kebun sawit perusahaan PT IJS, anak perusahaan raksasa @FirstResourceUS di Sorong, Papua. Komitmen berkelanjutan sosial dan lingkungan terabaikan. #DeforestasiPapua #Palmoil #NDPE @BentalaRakyat @GaveauD @milieudefensie @AidaGreenbury
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Please follow the new Nusantara Atlas account. It tracks real-time & historical deforestation and land use changes in Equatorial Asia, offering alerts and insights for forest conservation. An essential tool for verifying deforestation legality nd sourcing commodities consciously
Thank you to @MongabayOrg for highlighting #TheTreeMap and our research showing deforestation is on the rise. "Deforestation by the palm oil industry in Indonesia increased in 2023 for the second year in a row" https://t.co/VlO56PdScP
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A troubling reality of #greenwashing practices through tax havens allowing tropical forest destruction in the supply chain of wood pulp and #viscose for textiles used by the #fashion industry. https://t.co/qdkD9wyApW
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2023 has been another bad year for the lesser-known #RawaSingkil Wildlife Reserve. >700 ha of forest were cleared and it is still going. This reserve is of paramount importance to the climate and Biodiversity. https://t.co/wsECGln8Jl
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And here are some of the faces and logos of the best community out there! 👏👏👏 Thank you @BzGEO for the inspiration 🙏
As 2023 is reaching its end, we would like to acknowledge all the hard work and deep collaboration we have been experiencing as part of the #NICFISatellitDataProgram. To our users, THANK YOU for everything, you are all super stars✨✨✨
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#PalmOil In Common Household Products Is Destroying The World’s ‘Orangutan Capital’ @RSPOtweets
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🌳👗 joint investigation reveals the harsh truth: #Greenwashing in the fashion industry's wood pulp & viscose supply chain, aided by tax havens. Uncover the hidden story of sustainability deception. #FashionIndustry #Deforestation 🌎✂️ @narasitv
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Deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions rise as Indonesian pulp producers expand operations to meet growing demand from China, and the scandals behind it. https://t.co/CU1LA3dDH7
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Deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions rise as Indonesian pulp producers expand operations to meet growing demand from China
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Stocks of #Palmoil company First Resources soar 2.13% after @geckoproj exposes their covert destruction of primary forests in Indonesia for so-called 'sustainable' #RSPO-certified oil. Profit climbs while nature suffers. Nobody gives a F... Time for real consequences @RSPOtweets.
#Palmoil player 'First Resources' runs covert firms driving massive deforestation, all while promoting 'sustainable' #RSPO certified oil. Visualise the destruction in the 17 shadow concessions on https://t.co/mqOlkPbumv
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@geckoproj @ICIJorg
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Report alleges APP continues deforestation 10 years after pledge to stop https://t.co/kVvfTLQX1r
@k1k1taufik @GaveauD @GrantRosoman
@WhatsNYourPapr @FSC_IC @Greenpeace @GreenpeaceID @AidaGreenbury @AsiaPulpPaper
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🌴 New Research Alert! 🌿 Assessing the sustainability of Oil Palm (Elaeis guinensis) plantations - a complex issue.
📢PAPER ALERT I am thrilled to present our latest work "Replanting unproductive palm oil with smallholder plantations can help achieve Sustainable Development Goals in Sumatra, Indonesia", just published in @CommsEarth. Follow this thread for some highlights! 🧵(1/8)
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New Research! Assessing sustainability of #PalmOil plantations. Our study dives into the impact on #SDGs. Unproductive plantations linked to malnutrition, air pollution&more. Replanting strategies unveiled for a greener future! 🌏🌱 https://t.co/JIpx7BxtNd
#SustainableDevelopment
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Communications Earth & Environment - Unproductive palm oil is hindering sustainable development in Sumatra, Indonesia, but its replanting through small plantations could contribute more to...
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🔥 Further evidence that the practice of clearing, draining, and converting tropical peatlands into industrial plantations is far from sustainable. 🔥
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