This map shows Deforestation Risk and Hot Spots across Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as forest loss. The layers on this map were created by the World Wildlife Fund and from data compiled from Hansen, M. C., P. V. Potapov, R. Moore, M. Hancher, S. A. Turubanova, A. Tyukavina, D. Thau, S. V. Stehman, S. J. Goetz, T. R. Loveland, A. Kommareddy, A. Egorov, L. Chini, C. O. Justice, and J. R. G. Townshend. 2013. “High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change.” Science 342 (15 November): 850–53.
This map includes predicted climate data for Latin America and the Caribbean. The selected climographs were created by students enrolled in GEOG 266: Geographies of Latin America and the Caribbean in Spring 2022. Other climate data included is a feature layer created by ArcGIS Online community members using a time-enabled Map Service that displays observed and predicted climate shifts from 1901-2100 using Koppen-Geiger climate classification. This data was made publically available by Institute for Veterinary Public Health, Climatic Research Unit (CRU), Global Precipitation Climatology Centre (GPCC), German Weather Service, University of East Anglia, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
