Indigenous Groups Document Environmental Destruction Using GPS and Google Earth
The Washington Post had an interesting piece out of Nuevo Jerusalem, Peru today highlighting how the Achuar Indians are using new tools against Occidental Petroleum, a California-based company that they say has polluted their local rainforest ecosystem. One activist carries a digital camera, notepad and a Global Positioning System (GPS) transceiver donated by the civic group Shinai, to document water pollution.
Last spring, U.S. lawyers representing 24 indigenous Peruvians sued…
January 31 2008 06:01 pm | Environment
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