Brazil's National Indigenous Foundation

Indigenous Tribes In Brazil To Map Deforestation On Google Earth

Brazilian Pataxo women take part in a ritual dance during a protest against a proposed constitutional amendment that would put the demarcation of indigenous lands into the hands of the Congress, in front of the Brazil’s National Congress, in Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 10, 2015.(AP/Eraldo Peres)

Indigenous peoples in Brazil will now be able to map, in almost real time, the deforestation in the Amazon.