Just to get the ball rolling....Last month I stumbled across the following two Global Forest/Land cover mapping efforts:
1. Land Cover (GLCNMO), Vegetation (Percent Tree Cover)
http://www.iscgm.org/browse.html
Which is Japanese led effort that mapped the world at 500 m resolution."Version 1" uses Modis 2003 imagery. "Version 2" uses Modis 2008 imagery. Unfortunately no newer dates so most of the big resent Cambodian deforestation missing but still looks like quite a reasonable mapping effort if you don't mind using a land cover back dating back to 2008.
2. Global Land Cover-SHARE of year 2014 - Beta-Release 1.0
http://www.glcn.org/databases/lc_glcshare_en.jsp
