OpenForests

Nature is the silent backbone of every supply chain.

Beyond the natural resources we can see and measure, it delivers services we rarely think about: filtering the water we drink, renewing the air we breathe. Quietly, consistently, and for free.

Most companies never put a price on any of this. Their financial statements treat nature as inexhaustible and infinite.

But what if nature finally sent us an invoice?

In the latest episode of the Beyond the Canopy podcast, host Alexander Watson is joined by Tim Cronin, Global Lead of WWF's Forest Forward Program, for a conversation on why protecting forests is good for business.

They explore how leading companies like IKEA, SIG, Interholco and others are weaving forest conservation into their core strategies, and break down what supply chain resilience, tightening regulations and emerging carbon markets mean for the future of corporate sustainability.

And you, does your balance sheet already reflect the value of nature?

Listen to our last episode here: https://youtu.be/7F4WgbCWz7U

Nine new GIS thematic layers are now live on explorer.land.

Sourced from leading research organisations. All freely accessible in one place.

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Conservation ClimateAction OpenData NatureData Biodiversity

"The global standards don't have their feet on the ground. They don't stand on the soil."

And this is exactly why Pati Ruiz Corzo and Ecologico Sierra Gorda built their own local carbon standard.

Not for the markets, but for local people.

The Carbono Biodiverso protocol, co-developed with the Querétaro state government, is turning carbon tax revenues from local companies into direct payments to forest owners.

A transparent, locally governed mechanism where 70 to 80% of revenues flow directly back to conservation on the ground.

No developer extracting value in the middle and a system designed to work for the 630 communities living inside one of Mexico's most biodiverse regions.

What makes it work is 40 years of showing up: training farmers, developing local products, and instilling pride in communities for what they preserve.

Economic dignity, environmental awareness, and community pride viewed as a single, integrated whole.

At OpenForests, working alongside Grupo Ecológico to build their carbon registry has been a reminder that local roots are not a constraint in conservation finance. They are the building blocks of the entire architecture.

🎙️ Pati and Laura Burke Pérez-Arce tell the full story in the latest episode of Beyond the Canopy. Link in comments.

We don't believe in "divide and conquer."

We believe fragmented information leads to fragmented action, and that the restoration sector deserves better than scattered data and missed opportunities of collaboration.

So when and came to us with this very challenge, we got to work. The result: an interactive map of 160+ regeneration and restoration initiatives across Europe, structured, filterable, and built to support decision-making.

We turned the whole process into a case study because we do think this kind of approach is worth replicating.

See how we did it ↓

Satellite images are made of pixels.

Tiny pieces of information, collected across space and time that represent real bits of the Earth: a forest, a river, a field, a beach.

Put together, these images don’t only reveal landscapes, but also reveals the changes affecting them:

🌱 growth
🔥 disturbance
💧 drought
🌳 regeneration

This is Episode 4 of “What the satellite sees”, our series about how satellites help us understand the constantly evolving nature.

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Not all satellites orbit the Earth the same way.

Some fly close.
Some, very, very far away.

And that distance changes everything:

👁️ what they can see
📏 how detailed it is
⏱️ how often they come back

The closer they are, the more detail they can capture.

The further they are, the longer they can stay focused on one place.

This balance shapes how we observe the planet.

This is Episode 2 of “What satellite sees”, our series about how satellites help us understand nature.

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