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Kanopy · pilot programme

The forest, measured.

How much forest a reserve holds, what condition it is in, and where it is being lost. Read from orbit first, then flown and walked.

Read the first reports
2reserves read
151,666hectares
25years of record
Omo Forest Reserve131,907 ha · Ogun State
Undisturbed 16.6%Degraded 46.3%Regrowth 11.2%Cleared 9.2%

For the people who answer for a forest

A reserve is a line on a map. What stands inside it is another matter.

Nigeria has about a thousand forest reserves, owned by its states. Most have no current record of how much forest is left inside the line, or where it is going. Without a measurement someone else can check, a reserve cannot be managed, financed or defended.

Kanopy is that measurement. It is in pilot: two reserves have been read from orbit so far, and nobody has yet walked either one for us. The reports say so where it matters.

01
In the pilot

From orbit

Twenty-five years of optical and radar records for the whole reserve: how much forest, in what condition, lost where and when.

02
Next

From the air

Drone lidar flown in strips, to measure the height and structure of the canopy where a satellite only sees green.

03
Next

On the ground

Trees measured by hand in sample plots. Every carbon figure is calibrated to them; none is credible without them.

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In development

In the forest

Small devices that recognise a chainsaw or a truck where they stand and alert rangers in minutes, with no connection to the cloud.

The accountBoundary, forest by condition, change since 2000, and carbon with its uncertainty stated.
The watchAlerts when forest is being cleared, sent to the people who can act on them.
The evidenceThe images, plots and methods a state, a funder or an auditor needs to check it themselves.

Pilot report one · Omo Forest Reserve, Ogun State

Mostly under trees. Little of it intact.

A land-cover map calls 97.7% of Omo tree cover. The longer record tells a different story: most of that is forest that has been logged or thinned, and the clearing is spread through the interior, not along the edge where a patrol would look.

Map of forest condition in Omo Forest Reserve: undisturbed, degraded, regrowth and cleared
Forest condition, 1990 to 2025. Green is undisturbed, amber degraded, blue regrowing, orange cleared. The white line is the reserve.
The reserve in three numbers
131,907ha
inside the boundary
16.6%
undisturbed moist forest
693ha a year
tree cover lost, 2021 to 2025
What the reserve is made of
Undisturbed 16.6%Degraded 46.3%Regrowth 11.2%Cleared 9.2%Never forest in the record 16.7%
Tree cover lost each year, hectares
200120132025

14,920 ha since 2001. The largest year is 2025, at 1,499 ha; the latest year is provisional.

Read the Omo report → A desk study from public satellite data. Not yet checked on the ground.

Pilot report two · Pandam Wildlife Park, Plateau State

The park shows from space. So does what happened in 2024.

Pandam is intact savanna woodland in a farmed landscape, holding 2.7 times the biomass per hectare of the land around it. For 23 years almost nothing changed. Then 321 ha went from one corner in two years. One image cannot say whether it was felling, farming or fire.

Sentinel-2 image of Pandam Wildlife Park with the area lost in 2024 and 2025 marked
Sentinel-2, 2025-11-19. The white line is the only public boundary, a wetland-site polygon; the park appears to run north of it to the river.
The park in three numbers
19,759ha
inside the public boundary
2.7×
the biomass of the land around it
321ha
woodland lost in 2024 and 2025
Tree cover lost each year, hectares
200120132025

440 ha since 2001, of which 73% in the last two years. The latest year is provisional.

Read the Pandam report → A desk study from public satellite data. Not yet checked on the ground.

Kam Origin · cocoa in Ondo and Cross River

The same check, run on cocoa. Legality is where the risk is.

From December 2026 an EU importer must show its cocoa was not grown on forest cleared after 2020, and was farmed legally. We ran that test on 20 mapped cocoa farms, four estates and four forest reserves. Most farms pass the forest test or need a field visit to decide. Eight of the twenty sit inside a gazetted forest reserve.

Read the cocoa report → Field Capture app → A desk study from public satellite data. No farm was visited. Field Capture is how the boundaries get walked.

Who it is for

Built for whoever has to answer for the forest.

Kanopy runs on the same foundation as the rest of Kam Edge: models that work on the device, in places without reliable power or signal. The measurement is independent of whoever owns, manages or finances the reserve.

State forestry authorities

A current picture of every reserve you hold, and notice when one starts to change.

Conservation organisations

A record of the reserve you manage that a funder can verify without taking your word for it.

Funders and investors

Independent measurement before you commit to a forest, including natural-asset and carbon structures.

Join the pilot

Take a reserve from desk study to field survey.

We are looking for one state authority or conservation partner to take a reserve into the next stage. If you manage a reserve, or hold records that would correct either report, we would like to hear from you.