Why are some areas on your online map deforested?

The areas with lighter aerial images on our online map do not necessarily correspond to our protected areas. They merely mark the area that we have flown over and photographed with drones, and offer more up-to-date images (including of adjacent areas) than are normally available on the map tool. The fact that the deforested areas in some cases extend right up to the property boundary shows how urgent it is to protect these forest areas. Houses and plantations, which can be seen particularly clearly in the aerial photographs from Peru, are not located in our protected areas and are not part of them.

In our Canadian protected areas, you may well find a few dead, fallen trees at your coordinates. However, these are not the result of deliberate, man-made clearing, but most likely a wetland with a very special inhabitant: the beaver. 

You can see our protected areas framed in light and dark blue under these links:

• Secret Forest (Madre de Dios, Peru)
• Misty Forest (Porcher Island, BC, Canada)
• Grizzly Forest (Toba Valley, BC, Canada)