AI tool tracks spread of illegal gold mining in Amazon protected areas

Mongabay
Apr 24, 2026, 5:56 am79 ptsTrending
In July 2025, the Indigenous Shuar people celebrated the end of a decade-long struggle when they received official titles for three communities — the Shuar Tunants, Kampan and Tsuntsuim –- within the Kutukú Shaimi Protected Forest, in the south of the Ecuadorean Amazon. But in one of those communities,…

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