anchor.diff:            <h3 class='overview_title'>Liberia logging concessions</h3>
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  -          <p>The Liberia logging concessions data set combines the boundaries of forest management contracts, timber sale contracts, and private use permits, compiled by Global Witness from available government and contractual maps. Due to a lack of quality data, this data set should be used for demonstration purposes only and not for land use planning purposes. Forests in Liberia are managed by the state under the National Forestry Reform Law, enacted in October 2006. Following the enactment of this law, UN Security Council timber export sanctions against Liberia were lifted, permitting commercial forestry activities to resume. Forest management contracts include concession areas of 50,000 hectares to 400,000 hectares and are open for bids from qualified bidders that demonstrate at least 51% ownership by Liberian citizens; concessions of more than 100,000 hectares are open for bidding from international investors. Timber sale contracts are established through a bidding process for areas up to 5,000 hectares; bidders must demonstrate at least 51% ownership by Liberian citizens. Private Use Permits are licenses issued to private landowners to extract wood and lack sustainability regulations. Global Witness compiled the logging concession data as part of the report <em>Signing Their Lives Away:  Liberia’s Private Use Permits and the Destruction of Community Owned Rainforest</em> (Global Witness, 2012).</p>
  +          <p>The Liberia logging concessions data set combines the boundaries of forest management contracts, timber sale contracts, and private use permits, compiled by Global Witness from available government and contractual maps. Due to a lack of quality data, this data set should be used for demonstration purposes only and not for land use planning purposes. Forests in Liberia are managed by the state under the National Forestry Reform Law, enacted in October 2006. Following the enactment of this law, UN Security Council timber export sanctions against Liberia were lifted, permitting commercial forestry activities to resume. Forest management contracts include concession areas of 50,000 hectares to 400,000 hectares and are open for bids from qualified bidders that demonstrate at least 51% ownership by Liberian citizens; concessions of more than 100,000 hectares are open for bidding from international investors. Timber sale contracts are established through a bidding process for areas up to 5,000 hectares; bidders must demonstrate at least 51% ownership by Liberian citizens. Private Use Permits are licenses issued to private landowners to extract wood and lack sustainability regulations. Global Witness compiled the logging concession data as part of the report <em>Signing Their Lives Away: Liberia’s Private Use Permits and the Destruction of Community Owned Rainforest</em> (Global Witness, 2012).</p>
   
             <p class='credits'><strong>Credit:</strong> Global Witness, 2012</p>
   
             <h3 class='overview_title'>Republic of the Congo logging concessions</h3>
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  -          <p>Forest concession data for the Republic of the Congo provide the boundaries of areas permitted for selective logging.  These areas, also called Forest Exploitation Units, are managed in accordance with the national Forest Code. This data set was produced through a collaboration between the Republic of the Congo Ministry of Forest Economy and WRI. For more information, see the <a href='http://www.wri.org/project/interactive-forest-atlas-congo' target='_blank'>Interactive Forest Atlas for the Republic of the Congo</a>.</p>
  +          <p>Forest concession data for the Republic of the Congo provide the boundaries of areas permitted for selective logging. These areas, also called Forest Exploitation Units, are managed in accordance with the national Forest Code. This data set was produced through a collaboration between the Republic of the Congo Ministry of Forest Economy and WRI. For more information, see the <a href='http://www.wri.org/project/interactive-forest-atlas-congo' target='_blank'>Interactive Forest Atlas for the Republic of the Congo</a>.</p>
   
             <p class='credits'><strong>Credit:</strong> Republic of the Congo Ministry of Forest Economy (MEF), National Center for Inventory and Planning of Forest and Wildlife Resources (CNIAF), World Resources Institute</p>
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            <h3 class='overview_title'>Overview</h3>
            <p>The <a href='http://intactforests.org/' target='_blank'>Intact Forest Landscapes</a> (IFL) data set identifies unbroken expanses of natural ecosystems within the zone of forest extent, areas that show no signs of significant human activity and are large enough that all native biodiversity, including viable populations of wide-ranging species, could be maintained.  To map IFL areas, a set of criteria was developed and designed to be globally applicable and easily replicable to allow for repeated assessments over time as well for verification.  The criteria were separated into two groups to assess the spatial extent of developed areas and the fragmentation of these areas.  These were then mapped and identified from <a href='http://landsat.usgs.gov/' target='_blank'>Landsat</a> satellite imagery for the year 2000. The landscapes identified as unfragmented were at least 50,000 hectares in size with a minimum width of 10 kilometers. This data can be used to assess forest intactness, alteration, and degradation at global and regional scales. </p>
  
            <p class='credits'><strong>Citation:</strong> Potapov, P., A. Yaroshenko, S. Turubanova, M. Dubinin, L. Laestadius, C. Thies, D. Aksenov, A. Egorov, Y. Yesipova, I. Glushkov, M. Karpachevski, A. Kostickova, A. Manisha, E. Tsybikova, and I. Zhuravleva. 2008. “Mapping the World’s Intact Forest Landscapes by Remote Sensing.” <em>Ecology and Society</em> 13, no. 2: Art. 51. <a href='http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art51' target='_blank'>www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art51</a>.</p>
  
  
negative.code:           <h3 class='overview_title'>Liberia oil palm concessions</h3>
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            <p>This data set provides the boundaries of known oil palm plantations for Liberia and was compiled by Global Witness from available government maps. Information provided with this data set includes company, ownership group, and land area.</p>
  
            <p class='credits'><strong>Credit:</strong> Global Witness, 2013.</p>
  
  