The Global Land Cover Facility BRAZIL ARGENTINA PARAGUAY Forest Nonforest Deforestation Water Protected Area Cloud Forest Cover Change Eastern Paraguay Deforestation 13,555 km 2 (30.1% loss of forest) Forest 31,463 km 2 Nonforest 95,217 km 2 Study Area 140,234 km 2 Change in the Subtropical Forest of Eastern Paraguay During the 1990s Kilometers Rio Paraguay Rio Parana Mbaracayu Forest Biosphere Reserve Caaguazu National Park San Rafael Managed Resource Reserve Alice Altstatt 1, Sunghee Kim 1, Oscar Rodas 4, Alberto Yanosky 4, John Townshend 1, Compton Tucker 1,2, Rob Clay 4 and John Musinsky 3 1 University of Maryland, 2 National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 3 Conservation International, 4 Guyra Paraguay This forest cover change map resulted from a land cover study in Paraguay using remotely sensed imagery. This study was funded under NASA’s Land Cover Land Use Change Program, Grant NAG Improvements in Landsat Pathfinder Methods for Monitoring Tropical Deforestation and their Extension to Extra-Tropical Areas. Please see the reverse for more information about this study.

The Global Land Cover Facility The Global Land Cover Facility provides free earth observation imagery and derived data to users around the world. Primary data collections include imagery from the major U.S. earth observation satellites: Landsat and MODIS from NASA, and AVHRR and GOES from NOAA. Derived products focus on land cover classification and analysis, especially forest cover and forest change. GLCF products are available for download at The forest cover change map on the reverse was derived from co-registered pairs of Landsat imagery acquired in and Large scale conversion of forest to agriculture occurred in Paraguay during the 1990s. Large tracts of forest still remain in eastern Paraguay within protected areas, but also outside existing protected area boundaries. A relatively small amount of forest conversion occurred inside the protected areas despite significant deforestation outside the boundaries, indicating that protected area status facilitates forest conservation. Change in the Subtropical Forest of Eastern Paraguay During the 1990s Caaguazu National Park April 19, 1989 August 5, 1999 These images are subsets of Landsat TM and ETM+ imagery centered on Caaguazu National Park. Forested areas are dark red and cultivated areas and clearings are brightly colored. Two patterns of forest conversion are occurring in close proximity to Caaguazu. To the north, large tracts of the forest have been converted to soybean agriculture. To the south and west, rural settlers have established small farms in the forest resulting in a recognizable linear pattern of clearings. Within Park 10 km buffer Surrounding Park Caaguazu National Park Forest 1999 Deforestation Within Reserve 10 km buffer Surrounding Reserve Mbaracayu Forest Biosphere Reserve Forest 2001 Deforestation Forest 1999 Deforestation San Rafael Managed Resource Reserve Within Reserve 10 km buffer Surrounding Reserve 10 km