Amazon Mining Watch
Amazon Mining Watch (AMW) is an open-source collaboration between the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN), Earth Genome, and Amazon Conservation, which stands at the nexus of pioneering technology, transparency, and environmental justice. AMW uses AI to search satellite imagery, identifying gold mines that threaten indigenous communities, cause deforestation, and endanger our planet’s most crucial rainforest. These detections are exposed to the public through a user-friendly public website and GitHub repo. AMW is a beacon that exposes the covert and harmful mining operations menacing the Amazon and its indigenous peoples.
Author
Rainforest Investigations Network, the Earth Genome, and Amazon Conservation in the U.S.
Goals
Improved data accessibility, Sectoral insight generation