14 DAY TRIAL // According to information made available to the public by NASA, i.e. the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States, neither Bolivia nor Malaysia has done a very good job looking after its forests since the beginning of 2014 until present day.
On the contrary, it would appear that these two countries experienced a noteworthy increase in local deforestation signals during the first quarter of 2014. Specifically, a 162% and a 150% increase in deforestation signals were documented in Bolivia and Malaysia, respectively, within said time frame.
Mongabay details that, as shown by NASA data, Panama, Ecuador, Cambodia and Nigeria also failed to properly look after their forests during this year's first quarter. Thus, deforestation signals in these regions were found to have increased by 123%, 115%, 89%, and 63%, respectively.
The same source explains that these changes in the forest coverage of said countries were documented with the help of NASA's Quarterly Indicator of Cover Change, i.e. a satellite-based product that serves to keep tabs on the transformations natural ecosystems undergo either due to human activities, or because of natural disasters such as wildfires.
Information obtained in this manner is available to authorities and high officials, researchers and locals, and can be used to roll out green-oriented campaigns intended to safeguard a given country's forest coverage.