With help from U.S. organizations, Panama’s Indigenous people are using satellite images and other technologies to identify illegal logging and incursions by ranchers on their territory. But getting the government to act is far harder.
In 2014, with just 16 caribou remaining in the Klinse-Za herd, West Moberly First Nations and Saulteau First Nations decided to take matter into their own hands.
The Indigenous people of the Peruvian Amazon have long fought against the oil companies that seek to exploit their lands. But now these and other Amazon communities are facing new dangers.