Table 1 List and description of the available list of tree loss drivers that participants could select for steps 1 and 2 of the campaign.
Specific tree loss driver (step 1) | Description |
|---|---|
Subsistence agriculture | Relatively small fields (typically less than a quarter of the blue box), sometimes without defined borders. Includes agroforestry (combined trees and annual crops) in small fields, shifting cultivation (e.g., abandoned or burnt fields, fallow, bushes). Also includes mixed systems, where small crop fields, small scale pastures and cattle, small patches of palms might be seen, e.g., in some countries in Africa. Time-series helps for identification. |
Commercial agriculture | Uniform/monoculture, large fields (typically larger than one quarter of the blue box), but sometimes they can be several small fields together or close by, all with the same land use. Includes permanent (tree-crops/fruit trees) or annual crops, e.g., citrus plantations, olive trees, vineyards, cereals, soybean, sugar cane, banana and cacao plantations. It also includes commercial aquaculture. Excludes oil palm plantations. |
Commercial oil palm and other palm plantation | Includes oil palm and other palms such as coconut plantations in large sized fields or several small fields together. |
Pasture | Managed grasslands typically with signs of cattle around. May include sparse trees. Ponds of water with roads leading to or criss-crossing trails may be signs of pasture. No obvious agricultural management visible. |
Managed forest/forestry | Includes logging, timber plantations, managed forest and replanted forest. This class also includes rubber plantations. |
Roads/trails/buildings | Includes any built-up areas and infrastructure, as well as big and small roads or trails that may show human impact or urban expansion. |
Mining and crude oil extraction | Includes open mining, small regular oil extraction platforms and dams. |
Wildfire | A large (typically larger than the blue box) burnt area with irregular borders. |
Other natural disturbances / no tree loss driver | Drought, windthrow (trees uprooted by wind), flooding or no visible tree loss driver. |
General tree loss driver (step 2) | Description |
Agriculture/pasture | Includes the categories commercial and subsistence agriculture, pasture but also commercial oil palm and other palm plantations. |
Managed forest/forestry | Includes logging, timber plantations, managed forest and replanted forest. This class also includes rubber plantations. |
Roads/trails/buildings | Includes the categories roads/trails/buildings and mining and crude oil extraction. |
Natural disturbances | Includes the categories wildfire and other natural disturbances. |
No other tree loss driver | Select this if you think there are no, or no other, tree loss drivers visible. |
