Community patrolling reduced environmental crime by 80% in the Amazon

Mongabay
Aug 1, 2025, 5:34 am203 ptsTop
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the Brazilian Amazon, where enforcement agents are spread thin across vast territories, an unlikely success story has emerged — not from drones or satellites, but from…

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