Fortifying Forest Fire Forecasting for Nepal
Between January 1st and June 16, 2023, Nepal experienced 118% more forest fires than it had in all of 2022.
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Between January 1st and June 16, 2023, Nepal experienced 118% more forest fires than it had in all of 2022.
Bangladesh is a densely populated country where most people live in rural areas, and land management is critical to their well-being.
|Kabir Uddin, SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya
Forest rangers in one of Cambodia’s largest remaining forests now get deforestation alerts based on NASA satellite data.
|Ankit Joshi, SERVIR Southeast Asia and Jacob Ramthun, SERVIR Science Coordination Office
More than 50 million people in Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar draw water for drinking and agriculture from the Mekong River.
|Jacob Ramthun, SERVIR Science Coordination Office
May 22 is World Biodiversity Day, and this year we’re highlighting SERVIR’s commitment to protecting biodiversity in the Amazon Rainforest.
The Geospatial Applications for Food Security and Sustainable Landscapes service aims to improve food security in Burma (Myanmar) by improving crop planning and forest landscape management practices in the country.
The Geospatial Applications for Protected Area Alerts and Crop Maps service aims to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and improve the livelihoods of local communities. To do this, SERVIR SEA develops user-friendly decision support tools for monitoring forest clearance activities.
Air Quality Monitoring for Sustainable Landscapes and Better Human Health aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, improve climate resilience and promote better human health by using air quality data for informing and regulating the management of agricultural burning.
Through SERVIR, USAID and NASA play a key role in supporting the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE). Our work was recently highlighted in the new White House publication “Helping the World PREPARE: A Primer on U.S. International Adaptation and Resilience.”
This dry season, communities in the central and northern Amazon face increased fire risk linked to El Niño. With the support of SERVIR, decision-makers can more easily track and respond to these fires.
|Lena Pransky and Jacob Ramthun, NASA Science Coordination Office