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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.

Video: Communities Combat Coca Growers

Indigenous communities in Peru are using new technologies to detect and combat deforestation in their territories. Indigenous territorial monitors receive deforestation alerts from satellite data, speeding up their ability to detect and intervene against illegal deforestation. Communities Combat Coca Growers was produced by If Not Us Then Who? and Rainforest Foundation US. The video follows territorial monitors from the indigenous communities of Nuevo Saposoa and Patria Nueva who are putting the new technologies to use.

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