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Panama's indigenous tribes launch drones to fight deforestation
2016-06-02 06:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Indigenous people in Panama are using drones as a new weapon to monitor deforestation on their lands as thousands of hectares disappear every year in one of the world's most biodiverse rainforests, the United Nations said. More than half of Panama is covered with tropical rainforest, home to various indigenous groups who rely on the forests to survive. "The main objective of monitoring with drones is to identify changes in specific points of the forest cover," the U.N. Food and Agriculture...
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