Google Agrees to Monitor Amazonian Deforestation

Environment - 2008

Google Agrees to Monitor Amazonian Deforestation

http://mashable.com/2008/04/13/google-surveils-amazon
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An Amazonian tribe, the Surui, living deep inside the world’s largest rainforest have requested that that Google surveil the wilderness through up-to-date high-resolution satellite images in order to more effectively combat illegal activity of loggers on the landscape. Google has agreed.

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