Posts Tagged ‘environmental monitoring’
The Indigenous women protecting the Colombian Amazon by boat
In the Indigenous community of Manacaro in the Colombian Amazon, women are helping to lead the work of territorial protection. Several times a week, Delia Gittoma, an Indigenous leader of the Carijóna people, sets out in a small, motorized boat to record animal species and human activity, and document threats to the forest. One person operates the motor, and the other collects data in…
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