World Intact Forest Landscapes

This map is the first global assessment of intact forest landscapes based on the latest available satellite imagery (2000-2004). It shows the remaining blocks of forest landscapes larger than 500 sq km unfragmented by roads, settlements, waterways, pipelines, power lines etc. These forest landscapes are natural ecosystems from the forest vegetation zone which are mostly forested but also contain swamps and other non-forested ecosystems and which are without significant visible signs of human impact such as logging, burning or other forms of clearings. This map was based mostly on the base of 2000-2002 Landsat images, some areas was updated on the base of 2003-2004 Landsat, IRS and Aster images.

This map is prepared by Greenpeace with the participation of Biodiversity Conservation Center (Russia), International Socio-Ecological Union and Luonto-Liitto (Finnish Nature League). As additional materials that were used for cross-verification of the map also were used following publications: "The last intact forest landscapes of Northern European Russia" (Greenpeace and GFW, 2001); "Remaining wildlands of the Northern forests" (GFW, 2002, unreviewed draft); Atlas of Russia's intact forest landscapes (GFW, 2002).

For more information:  http://www.intactforests.org/