On June 12, the workshop "General Presentation of Global Forest Watch Pro: Concept, Uses and Applications" was held in Lima. This workshop was organized by the Coalition for Sustainable Production in the framework of the Cocoa, Forests and Diversity Agreement and with the support of Solidaridad, Tropical Forest Alliance and German development cooperation, implemented by GIZ, through the MiCacao project.
The workshop was attended by representatives of the national private sector, public sector and civil society. The workshop was useful to provide information from Global Forest Watch and share monitoring experiences in the Peruvian Amazon used by the Supervisory Agency of Forest and Wildlife Resources and Geobosques of the Ministry of Environment.
The presentation of Luiz Calado, Strategic Solutions and Engagement Specialist in Latin America for GFW, had as one of its main objectives to collect local data information for the improvement of the Platform. He stressed the importance of understanding what are the necessary monitoring requirements demanded by the European Regulation in Peru.
"As Global Forest Watch, we are committed to contributing to providing all actors in Peru's tropical supply chains with a deforestation monitoring tool that is accessible and suitable for reporting against the regulations of international markets such as Europe.
Luiz Calado, Strategic Solutions and Engagement Specialist for Latin America, GFW/WRI.
Luis Enrique Campos, Coordinator of Optimized Supervisions of the Forestry and Wildlife Supervision and Enforcement Directorate, presented the use of RPAs in Forestry Supervisions to Enabling Titles, as a result of which 30% in days of supervision and 25% of the cost of the supervisions were optimized.
As the last presentation of the workshop, Daniel Castillo, Head of the Forest Ecosystem Conservation Status Monitoring Sub-unit, stated that the Geobosques platform was created to provide a tool to plan and take timely action on the problem of forest loss, allowing the various actors in the territory responsible for forest management to contribute to the reduction of GHGs. Among the platform's next steps is the development of a mobile app for field verification and to expand monitoring coverage to dry forests.
