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ForestWatchers Lets Anyone Monitor A Patch of Forest

Posted by timothy on from the first-one-to-spot-sasquatch-wins dept.

teleyinex writes "ForestWatchers.net is a citizen project with the goal of making it possible for anyone (locals, volunteers, NGOs, governments, etc), anywhere in the world, to monitor selected patches of forest across the globe, almost in real-time, using a computer connected to the Internet. The project has recently released a first alpha web application (built using the open source crowdsourcing PyBossa framework) where volunteers can participate by classifying satellite images of one area of the Amazon basin."

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  1. Re:Watch trees? Hell ya, sign me up. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Watch for illegal logging. What's so bad about logging?

    The loggers in these countries don't know when to stop. So what?

    It has a rippling effect down the ecosystem - even to the point of destroying fisheries. And for what?

    So people can have their exotic wood furnishings, paneling and flooring.

    Also the cleared land is used to grow palm oil - for junk food. So, we humans are destroying our habitat for prestige and junk food - that's going to kill us off.

    Frankly, I'm all for removing all environmental protections, let nature kill us all, and let God sort us out.