Yanomami youth turn to drones to watch their Amazon territory

Mongabay
Feb 27, 2025, 10:00 pm275 pts
When illegal miners started invading their land seven years ago, many Yanomami felt helpless. How can you surveil a territory the size of Portugal in a remote area of the northern Amazon with no police, planes or technology? Around 20,000 illegal garimpeiros, as illegal miners are known in Brazil, invaded the…

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