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Why each district lost its trees, year by year from 2001 to 2025: hectares of tree cover loss split by the dominant driver of the 1 km cell it happened in — permanent agriculture (cocoa, oil palm, other crops), hard commodities (mining and energy, the closest open measure of galamsey), shifting cultivation, logging, wildfire, settlements and infrastructure, and other natural disturbances. The driver is modelled for each cell over the whole period, so it says what most of the loss there was caused by, not what caused every hectare. A district-year-driver with no loss has no row. At 30% canopy density, matching tree_cover_loss. Sourced from Global Forest Watch (WRI and Google DeepMind, Sims et al. 2025), CC BY 4.0. 12134 records.
Every column this dataset returns, with its type. This is the shape of the API response.
| Field | Type |
|---|---|
| region | VARCHAR(80) NOT NULL |
| district | VARCHAR(120) NOT NULL |
| year | INTEGER NOT NULL |
| driver | VARCHAR(60) NOT NULL |
| tree_cover_loss_ha | DECIMAL(14,1) NOT NULL |
| source | TEXT |
| regionVARCHAR(80) NOT NULL | districtVARCHAR(120) NOT NULL | yearINTEGER NOT NULL | driverVARCHAR(60) NOT NULL | tree cover loss haDECIMAL(14,1) NOT NULL | sourceTEXT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ahafo Region | Asunafo North Municipal | 2001 | Hard commodities | 2 | Global Forest Watch, World Resources Institute (CC BY 4.0) |
| Ahafo Region | Asunafo North Municipal | 2001 | Logging | 10 | Global Forest Watch, World Resources Institute (CC BY 4.0) |
| Ahafo Region | Asunafo North Municipal | 2001 | Permanent agriculture | 391 | Global Forest Watch, World Resources Institute (CC BY 4.0) |
| Ahafo Region | Asunafo North Municipal | 2001 | Settlements & Infrastructure | 19 | Global Forest Watch, World Resources Institute (CC BY 4.0) |
| Ahafo Region | Asunafo North Municipal | 2001 | Wildfire | 2 | Global Forest Watch, World Resources Institute (CC BY 4.0) |
12,129 more rows — see the plans
See the plansGET connect.apighana.com/api/data/tree_cover_loss_by_driver
Cite this dataset and the organisation its records come from (Global Forest Watch, World Resources Institute). Datasets are updated, so keep the date you accessed it in the citation. These records cover 2001 to 2025; say which period your figures come from. Last updated from the source on Sep 26, 2026.
API Ghana. (2026). Tree cover loss by driver (Version 1.0) [Data set, compiled from Global Forest Watch, World Resources Institute]. Retrieved October 1, 2026, from https://apighana.com/datasets/tree-cover-loss-by-driver
curl "https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/tree_cover_loss_by_driver?page=1&limit=20" \ -H "X-API-Key: $APIGHANA_KEY"
const response = await fetch(
"https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/tree_cover_loss_by_driver?page=1&limit=20",
{ headers: { "X-API-Key": process.env.APIGHANA_KEY } },
);
const { data, meta } = await response.json();import os, requests
response = requests.get(
"https://connect.apighana.com/api/data/tree_cover_loss_by_driver",
headers={"X-API-Key": os.environ["APIGHANA_KEY"]},
params={"page": 1, "limit": 20},
)
rows = response.json()["data"]