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ForestWatchers por Pedro Markun

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    Can we go? Yes!
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    Actually ForestWatchers is a project
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    that belongs to this idea of Citizen Cyberscience
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    that tries to engage more citizens
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    in the process of the creation of science
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    and knowledge
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    specifically ForestWatchers
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    has a simple objective but very ambitious
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    that it is put everybody to watch
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    control and try to stop the deforestation
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    of the forests of the whole world
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    A very cool job that
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    people from INPE is already
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    doing in Brazil's forests
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    but this is a very hard job,
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    so many people are spending a lot of energy in this
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    and the idea is to create a platform
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    that everybody from their home
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    can help in this process checking
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    a little square each time
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    saying: HEY here there is deforestation
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    we need to go there
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    and lights up a red alert
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    and the people goes there
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    and achieve to resolve the problem as a community
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    more or less is that
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ForestWatchers por Pedro Markun
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