In the Amazon and Congo rainforests, investigative journalists are using satellite imagery and artificial intelligence (AI) to expose groups that operate in secret, extracting gold and minerals from some of the world’s most remote regions.
“We are facing the same story under the same constraints,” Jacopo Ottaviani, a senior strategist at project partner Code for Africa, told LatAm Journalism Review (LJR). “Both regions supply raw material to economies elsewhere. Both have environmental reporters working on thin budgets under real physical risk. Both face actors with an interest in these sites staying unmapped.”
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Journalists in Africa and South America are mapping the mines devouring the world’s rainforests
