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Eyes In The Sky: Styrofoam Drones Keep Watch On Rainforest Trees

2015-05-19 22:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: A couple of toy planes are out to catch illegal loggers and miners in the Amazon. It's an awesome responsibility. Every year, illegal logging and mining in the Peruvian Amazon destroy tens of thousands of acres of rain forest. The deforestation in remote parts of the jungle is difficult to detect while it's going on. But now there's a new way to keep an eye out: with a pair of drones. Carlos Castaneda, the coordinator of the Amazon Basin Conservation Association's Los Amigos conservancy concession,...

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