Training Indigenous Communities in Tech-Based Monitoring Saves Rainforests
The first of a series of blog posts covering tech-based monitoring strategies for combating deforestation, accompanied by a video by If Not Us Then Who?
Video: Communities Combat Coca Growers
“If Not Us Then Who?” and Rainforest Foundation US present a video about indigenous monitors who use technology to fight deforestation.
Rainforests Are Destroyed While Government Deliberates
Far from Georgetown or other large settlements, the villages’ lands had been largely untouched by outside forces. Yet the geographical remoteness which had previously sheltered these communities is ending as new infrastructure makes it easier to access this region, putting its native populations in danger.
