Eyes in Space
Channel: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Date: 04/11/2013

Brazil's satellite Amazon monitoring program is regarded as a key part of the dramatic fall in deforestation in the region over the past decade. How does it work? And what can other tropical countries learn from the Brazilians?

Still photos of IBAMA's teams in action courtesy of Nelson Feitosa, IBAMA.

To learn more, and for more stories of CIFOR's work in the Amazon, visit http://blog.cifor.org/amazon