Video, 4 mins
Tackling Illegal Logging in Peru
Developing new tools and techniques for the protection of the rainforests
Part of Exploring impact: case studies of colleagues creating lasting, significant, and positive change
26 Jun 2026 09:00
Illegal selective logging, the removal of large individual trees from rainforests, is both extremely destructive and very hard to monitor via conventional satellite imagery, relying largely on time-consuming field inspections.
To help tackle the problem, Dr Rob Bryant and team are working with OSINFOR, the forest management and conservation agency in Peru, on innovative new remote sensing technologies for the automated detection of unauthorised timber extraction.
Credits
Research
- Dr Rob Bryant (Reader in Dryland Processes at the University of Sheffield)
- Dr Chris Bousfield (Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield)
- School of Geography and Planning
- School of Biosciences
- Underpinning Research
Partners
- OSINFOR
- Edwin Allccahuaman Mañuico (Forestry Specialist at OSINFOR)
Film
- James Parsons (Videographer)
- Tommy Wilson (Editor)