Can Google Earth Help Save the Planet? »
Posted By cactushair 2 months ago in Science & TechnologyVolunteers track through the rainforest daily, using GPS to catalog sacred and cultural sites as well as locations where they've discovered illegal mining and logging. Other volunteers visually scan high resolution satellite images of their land, provided specifically for the project on Google Earth, for signs of invasion by loggers and miners.





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