Monitoring the World's Grasslands and Livestock: A Complete View of Overlooked Landscapes

In the UN International Year of Rangelands & Pastoralists, the Global Pasture Watch research consortium has completed its first suite of open, global datasets built specifically for grasslands, pastures and livestock.

This webinar celebrates that milestone and, for the first time, brings the full picture together: four complementary datasets covering grassland extent and type, livestock distribution, short vegetation height and grassland productivity. No single layer captures the complexity of grassland systems, but together they let researchers and decision-makers ask questions that were previously hard to address consistently at global scale.

Hear directly from the researchers who built the datasets as they introduce each one, showcase how the open data and methods can be combined and adapted for different contexts, and highlight how the products are already being used — from tracking conversion and degradation outside forests to informing restoration, biodiversity and sustainable-livestock work. Completing this first suite is a milestone, not an endpoint.

Join us to explore an open, unprecedented view of ecosystems long overlooked in global monitoring — and to help shape what comes next.