Every acre has a story before it disappears.
Canopy funds indigenous-led patrols, satellite monitoring, and seedling nurseries stitching fragmented corridors back together — from Borneo to Brazil's Atlantic coast.
What a fully funded corridor looks like in ten years
Intact canopy from Sabah to Sarawak. Indigenous ranger networks patrolling 4.2 million hectares. Satellite alerts reaching wardens within 40 minutes of a chainsaw signal. Seedling nurseries seeding 18,000 trees per season into the gaps.
This is not optimism. It is the documented trajectory of every corridor where sustained funding and community leadership arrived before the tipping point.
The Canopy Report
2025 Annual Impact · 48 pages
Eyes in orbit, boots on the ground
Canopy's satellite monitoring network covers 6.4 million hectares across four corridors. A chainsaw signal triggers an alert to the nearest ranger team within 38 minutes on average — down from 4 days in 2019.
We partner with Space4Good and local universities to train indigenous technicians to operate the ground stations themselves. The data belongs to the communities.
38min
avg. alert response
6.4M
hectares monitored
94%
canopy cover maintained
Explore the Live Forest Map
Real-time canopy data · Updated every 6h
The forest remembers who tends it
Canopy's ranger program employs 340 indigenous patrollers across Borneo and the Brazilian Atlantic coast — people whose grandparents named these trees. They carry GPS units, legal authority, and the knowledge that no satellite can hold.
Rangers intercept logging incursions, document biodiversity, and lead younger community members through apprenticeship patrols. The program has a 91% retention rate. This is a career, not a project.
“My father walked this ridge. Now I walk it with a device that tells Brasília when someone crosses the line. Both things are true at once.”
— Marcos Karipuna, Lead Ranger, Atlantic Corridor
Listen to the Dawn Chorus
Recorded 5:47am · Sabah, Borneo · 2 min
Stitching the gaps, one seedling at a time
Nursery partnerships are the slow work that makes everything else permanent. Fourteen indigenous-run nurseries across four countries propagate species selected by elders — not by outside botanists — from seed stock collected within the corridor itself.
When a satellite alert clears a logging incursion, rangers file the report and a nursery team arrives within the season. The wound closes.
2.4M
seedlings planted since 2018
18,000
trees per season, per nursery
78%
survival rate after 3 years
14
indigenous nursery partners
One acre protected
for $12 per month
Covers one ranger patrol shift, 40 satellite monitoring hours, and 22 seedlings. Cancel any time.
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