OpenForests

Name: OpenForests
Address: Moerser Straße 171, Krefeld, 47803, DE
Telephone: +4921519879656
Price range: £

OpenForests provides tools and services to support and build sustainable forestry projects. Proud founders of explorer.land

We make Impact Visible for People & Nature
Building digital tools for transparent, data-driven nature restoration.

01/09/2026

5 reasons landscape restoration programmes should use explorer.land

Landscape restoration rarely happens in one place, with one organisation or one dataset.

It happens across projects, partners, monitoring systems and funding streams — and all of it still needs to add up to one coherent landscape story.

Here’s where explorer.land helps:

🗺 1. Bring the whole landscape into one view

Connect projects, sites, boundaries, photos and field updates on one interactive map, while keeping each project and organisation visible.

🌍 2. Connect many partners into one programme story

Individual projects can remain independent, while their updates contribute to the wider landscape view. Less chasing partners for spreadsheets, presentations and status updates.

📊 3. Put your project data into context

Overlay your own boundaries with 40+ environmental and land-use layers — from forest change and land cover to soil, carbon, biodiversity and tenure.

🔌 4. Connect with the systems you already use

Field monitoring tools, databases, CRM or CMS can feed into explorer.land where needed. The goal is not to create another dashboard your team has to update manually.

🔐 5. Show the right information to the right audience

Programme teams, funders, partners and the public don’t all need the same view. The same landscape can be shared publicly, privately, embedded on your website or presented through dedicated partner and sponsor views.

Many people first discover explorer.land through its public directory of nature-based projects.

But for landscape restoration programmes, that is only the visible layer.

The bigger value is having one shared spatial view of what is happening across the landscape, across projects, partners and data.

28/08/2026

How many trees can you fit into a space the size of 6 parking spots?

If you said "not many," the Miyawaki method may surprise you. Densely planted native trees, all competing for sunlight, growing faster together than they ever would alone.

Tiny space. Big forest. Real outputs.
We wrote a full article about them that you can read here :https://openforests.com/media/articles/what-is-a-miyawaki-forest/

26/08/2026

How does climate change look like locally?
Climate change is usually told to us in global numbers.Global temperatures. Global emissions. Global scenarios.

Numbers that matter, but that rarely match how the change actually reaches us: a summer that feels off, a river running lower than it used to, a farm where the seasons no longer line up with what the family remembers.

We built Local Climate Stories to fill that gap between the global data and the local experience. What we hear in the news and what we actually experience. What feels different around us and the scientific data behind it.

We took 75+ years of climate data and brought it down to the scale where people actually live: a single place. Then we added something the data alone can't hold, people's memories of that place, sitting right next to the numbers. Data tells us what is changing. Stories tell us what that change means to the people living through it.

Because environmental data shouldn't stay locked in databases and scientific reports.
It should be visible, understandable, and tied to the landscape it describes.

→ Check what the data says for your city or country, share it and tag us. We’d love to see the results. https://climate.openforests.com/

24/08/2026

Why should a company back your restoration project?

The honest answer: great work on the ground isn't enough anymore to unlock funding. Funders want proof, not promises. They want to see exactly where their money lands.

With thousands of conservation and restoration initiatives chasing the same pool of budgets, and public trust shaken by scandal over the recent years, transparency has become the real currency.

Today more than ever, trust builds on communication, transparency, and facts.

explorer.land lets organizations show sponsors, in concrete terms, what their contribution actually does:

> A specific project, connected to a real site and location on a map
> A dedicated sponsor page and contribution timeline
> Field updates with photos and videos showing the work as it progresses
> Data they can examine themselves: from tree-cover gain and canopy height to change over time

Seeing beats telling. Check out how Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda I.A.P. (GESG) handles sponsor transparency with explorer.land: https://lnkd.in/enhaNBiE

21/08/2026

A funder who never visits your project sites still needs to know what's happening on it, when, and where.

That's what the news feed on explorer.land is for.

Every update you post, a field visit, a planting day, a monitoring result, can be pinned to the exact location on your project map.

Add photos, a gallery, even video. Anyone looking at the map can click that pin and see what happened there and when.

For a nature-based solutions organisation, this turns progress buried in report and spreadsheet into something a funder can actually see and understand A running, dated, geo-located record of the work.

That's what it means to make a project understandable from a distance. And over time, that transparency helps build trust.

If your organisation has stories worth telling, explorer.land gives them a place on the map.

19/08/2026

Was it always like this?

We all have memories of the climate where we live.

But how do they compare with the data?

With Local Climate Stories, search for any location and explore how its climate has changed since 1950.

→ See temperature, rainfall, drought and heat over time
→ Compare recent years with the 1961–1990 reference period
→ Explore a climate outlook to 2050
→ Add your own memory and photo to the map

No account needed to contribute a story.

Pick a location you know well. Was it always like this?

→ Explore your location on Local Climate Stories: https://climate.openforests.com/

18/08/2026

How can humans and wildlife coexist?

Human-wildlife conflict isn't a distant issue. It's happening right now, on every continent, as shrinking habitats push people and wild animals into the same shrinking space.

Elephants raiding crops in India. Wolves near livestock in Europe. Leopards at the edge of growing cities.
Behind every headline is the same root cause: wildlife running out of room to exist in.

We wrote about why this is accelerating, and what's actually working to reduce it.

Read the full article here: https://openforests.com/media/articles/what-is-human-wildlife-conflict/

Picture by Sanjeev Kumar Maurya on Pexels

14/08/2026

This season of the Beyond the Canopy podcast has been thought-provoking, inspiring, enriching, and much more!

A huge thank you to all the participants for these sincere and open conversations.

See you after the summer for a new season full of exciting encounters and discussions with inspiring leaders in the fields of conservation and restoration.

Mathias Schmidt, Marie- Noelle Keijzer, Andreas Eke, Alejandro Diaz, Tim Cronin, Tim Christophersen, Laura Perez Burke, Pati Ruiz Corzo, Pieter van Midwoud, Christian Kroll, your energy keeps resonating throughout the entire team of OpenForests and, we hope, far beyond.

We’re looking forward to meeting you again.

13/08/2026

How does climate change look where you live?

Climate change is measured globally.

But we experience it locally.

The summer that suddenly feels different.
The winters with less snow.
The long dry periods you don't remember having before.

So we built Local Climate Stories: a simple way to look at more than 75 years of climate data for any location on Earth and see how temperature, rain, drought and heat have changed over time.

Start somewhere you know well. What does climate change look like there?

Have a look by yourself: https://climate.openforests.com/

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