May 28, 2004
People of the forest.
"Conrad Feather is only part way through his PhD but has already spent several years living with indigenous people in the Amazon, helping them drive loggers from their ancestral land. Recently he trained them to use GPS devices so that they could create the first map of their territory and make an ambitious bid to win legal title to it. This month the project won him the prestigious St Andrews Prize for the Environment." [Via Disinformation.]
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This reminded me of the CyberTracker project.
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That's an outrage, those poor loggers getting driven from the land where their forefathers lived and… What? Oh, never mind.
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Where would the map be? It would be cool to see it.
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A Hero in my book!
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It's my rainforest now. No logging.
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He has an excellent idea there -- hope it catches on.
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The (Continuing) Tragedy of the Commons
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Amazon forest sold off in housing scam, claims Greenpeace
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The Man of the Hole