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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe _Nat. Clim. Change_ 11, 172–178 (2021). Ground-based monitoring of deforestation is resource intensive and difficult. Global Land Analysis

and Discovery (GLAD) alerts provide weekly and location-specific information on tree-cover loss detected through satellite imaging, and are freely available to users through a multi-language

interface with minimal technical requirements (Global Forest Watch). Writing in _Nature Climate Change_ in January 2021, Moffette et al. analysed how such alerts affected deforestation

rates in 22 tropical countries between 2011 and 2018, encompassing the gradual rollout of the alert system from 2016. Simple availability of the alerts did not affect deforestation on

average or in any particular region, but active subscription to the alerts by users with intent to control deforestation decreased the probability of deforestation in the assessed African

countries by an average of 18%. The same effect was not observed to a significant level in the assessed Asian and South American countries and the impacts of the alerts are increasing over

time. When accounting for existing monitoring mechanisms in the different regions, the authors suggest that the alerts may both support enforcement of anti-deforestation policies and promote

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AFFILIATIONS * Nature Ecology & Evolution https://www.nature.com/natecolevol Marian Turner Authors * Marian Turner View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed 

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