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This technology is really cool. My question would be, "What happens when your AI detects chainsaws or logging trucks?". Do you contact some policy authority, some international authority? Also, why are their cell phone towers in the middle of the jungle? What about areas deep in the wilderness where no cell towers exist?

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That's for small time abuses. What happens in the case of a full blown illegal logging operation involving a entire company? What about cases where things get violent? It's not uncommon for mining operations in the Amazon to end with natives getting massacred, the loggers probably not unwillingly to do that to anyone who gets in there way. When you come across a full scale logging op, do things get complicated?

Exactly. In that case they arrested a couple of poor peasants, but the people/organizations that both financed and enabled it walk free.

Like with drug labs in the jungle, all this cool technology is great for detection but ends up hitting a brick wall of corruption when it comes to actually solving the problem.

Great points you bring up and indeed things do get complicated as you face a bigger and more organized operation. This is the case in parts of the Tembe territory in Brazil and it is the reason why we work with many partners and agencies on the ground to ensure that the data we capture is used wisely.

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