You can now find all our reforestation projects on Restor

It’s one thing to see your virtual forest growing online with Ecologi, and it’s another thing entirely to be able to view the reforestation projects you support with your own eyes through satellite imagery. In an effort to enhance transparency in just about everything we do, we’re excited to share that you can now find all of our Ecologi supported restoration projects on Restor. To find out more about this incredible platform, read on.

Restor is a non-profit organisation that was founded by ETH Zurich’s Crowther Lab. The first version of the platform was developed in collaboration with Google in 2020 with the primary aim of supporting restoration practitioners around the world. 

The platform has aptly been described as “Google Maps for restoration” as it is built using Google Earth Engine and allows anyone, anywhere in the world to monitor global restoration efforts. The platform is a science-based open-data network that provides satellite imagery of restoration projects over time, allowing users to monitor landscape change and ultimately to better connect people and projects to their underpinning scientific data.

Global uptake for the open-source Restor platform has been an indication of the utility and ongoing potential of the platform, and it is no surprise that Restor was a Royal Foundation’s 2021 Earthshot Prize finalist, as well as an official partner of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

To find out more about how Restor works, take a look at the video below.

Photo credit: Koala Clancy Foundation

By providing open access to satellite imagery for all our restoration project sites, Restor adds an additional layer of transparency to show the success of our projects over time. The platform provides us with the opportunity to bring our community closer to the work they are funding on the ground by sharing tangible before and after satellite images. In addition, the platform helps us store our restoration project information all in one place, which provides a wealth of information for our community to refer back to, and to any individual in the world who is interested in what we do. The overarching theme across all these benefits is the fact that Restor enhances our transparency as an organisation, which is one of our core values at Ecologi.

Since Restor’s public launch in October 2021, their community has grown to over 125,000 restoration and conservation sites across 140 countries. Excitingly, over the next few months, the Restor platform will be rolling out a new look, along with updated features based on lessons learnt and user requests. Some of these new features include redesigned site profiles, affiliated organisations for various sites, and updated data layers in time. For a more in depth overview of what you can expect to see on Restor, check out the video below.

Here’s the easy part. We’ve gone ahead and added direct links to each reforestation project page, so if you’re interested in checking out a particular project on the Restor platform, just head to our projects page, select the particular reforestation project you’re interested in finding more about, and follow the link in the description. We hope you enjoy the platform and its capabilities as much as we do!

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