Forest Analytics Course

Deforestation is the biggest problem we are facing in today's world and roughly we are losing forests at a rate of 27 football fields a minute. Degraded forests can’t help keep our air and water clean, provide wildlife with shelter and food, or capture carbon. Illegal logging is a major threat to the forests and is impacting biodiversity adversely. Green zones like Amazon, Russia Far East, Southeast Asia, and Congo are the home to elephants, tigers, jaguars, and other iconic wildlife. To preserve wildlife and forests, governments are investing in Data Analytics that will provide fast and effective solutions for saving forests and improving biodiversity.

Illegal wood trade is a major problem faced by governments and tapping into big data analytics will help hinder suspicious timber imports. With the help of data analytics, we can identify and keep track of log exports from countries that have known export bans and it can be done fast and effectively. There are always discrepancies in national and international trade data and this can be solved by Data Analytics.