Brazil: Technology makes monitoring indigenous lands more precise
A territorial monitoring and management system has mapped the agro-extractivist production of the people who live in the Rio Gregório and Kampa do Rio Amônia Indigenous Lands in Acre. Through a cell phone application, the tool also collects demographic data and local biodiversity, and warns about changes in land use.The Territorial Monitoring and Management System was developed in partnership with the non-governmental organization Conservation International (CI-Brazil) and the Yawanawá and Ashaninka peoples. The tool started to be tested in June 2022 and, so far, more than 274.6 thousand hectares of land have already had their protection increased, benefiting directly and indirectly almost 2.5 thousand people.The innovation brought by the technology is a differential to alert the indig...