Costa Rica, read whole, 2017 to 2026, in 100 m squares. White is what people built.
Every hectare.
One need.
Costa Rica, read whole: 5.1 million hectares, each set beside the healthiest land of its kind.
1,866,076 ha
Conserve what holds.
1,022,457 hectares of it lie outside any protected area. Room for a reserve to grow.
1,251,020 ha
Restore what is close.
Near their kind. With help, they come back.
1,866,137 ha
Regenerate what has drifted.
Far from their kind. Worked with care, they recover.
Seventy-two sources.
One reading.
Month by month, to the hectare.
Calibrated,
place by place.
Close the gaps.
Every reading ends in what to do next.
See.
Every threat, as it nears.
Plan.
Where the reserve can grow.
Close.
The missing link, and whether it is for sale.
Gather.
Everyone who answers for it, at one table.
Watch.
A letter when clearing or fire comes near.
For those who
keep a place.
Reserves and parks
See where the edge is pressed, and where it can grow.
Bwindi Impenetrable, Uganda
21 Jul 2023
Biological corridors
Rank the links by what their loss would cut.
Kinabatangan, Malaysia
20 Jul 2024
Land trusts
Find the ground to hold next, and the land for sale there.
Columbia County, New York
18 Sep 2025
Funders
One dated record across every landscape you fund.
Sundarbans, Bangladesh
6 Mar 2024
Scientists
Every figure sourced, dated and open to correction.
Barro Colorado Island, Panama
30 Dec 2023
Communities and territories
Their own land, read only when they ask. Never ranked for purchase.
Xingu, Mato Grosso, Brazil
30 Aug 2025
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data, 2023 to 2025.
A reading like this could serve any purpose.
TERRA puts it in service of life.
Behind
TERRA.
I grew up in the Colombian Amazon, watching peoples, governments and funders come to one table around one territory. TERRA makes that table possible for any land on Earth. Dear Wise Earth brings the people and the places together, and TERRA is the engine underneath.
Gregorio von HildebrandFounder, Dear Wise Earth
Write to connect@dearwise.earth
Reviewed against the environmental and social safeguards of WHO, UNDP and FAO, and against FAO's guidelines on the governance of tenure.
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A room for the territory you keep.
A seat for everyone who answers for it.
Three invitations to give.
Readings are made from satellite and public records and are not a substitute for a visit to the land.