“Green enthusiasts” worldwide are to be offered the opportunity to play game keeper and monitor satellite images of rainforests and report any illegal logging.
Satellite images will be frequently updated and anyone with internet access will be able to make instant comparisons with older images and identify destruction of rainforest almost immediately.
The green detectives will then be able to report the illegal deforestation to an international agency being created to monitor whether countries are meeting their commitments to reduce deforestation. Any state found to have broken its pledge will lose its share of a new global fund established by rich countries to pay nations for leaving their trees standing. Read more.
Agribusiness Investment
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
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