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Using technology, indigenous monitors in the Amazon combat environmental crime

A number of communities have used technology to win important verdicts against oil companies or evict invaders from their territories.

On Peru’s border, the Tikuna tribe takes on illegal coca growers

On Peru’s border, the Tikuna tribe takes on illegal coca growers

Equipped with GPS-enabled cellphones and satellite maps, they confront loggers and drug traffickers who have threatened them with death.

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