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How Nepal Regenerated Its Forests

After relinquishing control of forests to the villages that depend on them, forest cover in this small mountainous country nearly doubled.


NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using data from Van Den Hoek, J., et al. 2021. Story by Emily Cassidy.

Published February 9, 2023
Data acquired 1992 - 2016

Sources:
Landsat 5 > TM
Landsat 7 > ETM+
Landsat 8 > OLI
Collection:
Science in Action