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Stopping future viruses like COVID-19 requires ending the wildlife trade. That fight starts with protecting intact forests. Here’s how

From cocoa, soybean, to palm, companies without effective forest monitoring systems are not only risking their reputations but also…

Most of us have seen dramatic footage of destitute orangutan infants stranded in tiny patches of forest surrounded by the charred remains…

In 2019, almost 1 in 5 mills in Indonesia lost over 20 soccer pitches of orangutan habitat loss in 2019. This statistic comes from our…

In England, we have an expression, “it does exactly what it says on the tin”. It originated from an ad campaign selling wood stain and is…

The Mighty Earth Rapid Response system stops deforestation because it joins the dots. It joins the dots between forest lost on the ground…

When we launched MapHubs in January 2017, our goal was simply to survive. Like any startup, we had big ideas, an MVP (a minimum viable…

From the sprawling palm plantations of Sumatra to the supermarket shelves of Europe, tracing the journey of a palm oil kernel from farm to…

A couple of weeks ago, Global Witness released a major report on how the logging industry is running amok in the Solomon Islands. In ten…

One evening a few weeks ago, beneath the rockets of the Air and Space Museum, I listening to former NASA astronaut, Cady Coleman talk…

Intact forest is the good stuff. Free from major human disturbances such as roads, intact forest often holds the highest biodiversity…

Mapping oil palm plantations began with a twenty hour detour through the rainforest. In May 2014, I was with our Moabi field team, testing…

How MapHubs helped stop a palm oil company clearing a Manhattan-sized chunk of rainforest in Papua, Indonesia.

MapHubs has won the Chocothon People’s Choice Award at the 2017 World Cocoa Foundation Conference, in Washington, DC. Ensconced in the…

MapHubs helped Mighty Earth to map cocoa-related deforestation in the Ivory Coast for their report. The seven maps below explain how we…