An Amazon tribe fights back against illegal logging

The Ka’apor tribe of Maranhao, Brazil, which depends on the Amazon rainforest for its livelihood and culture, is using both traditional and high-tech methods to fight back against illegal logging in their territory.
“All of the logging that now takes place [in Maranhoa] is being done illegally,” says Jonathan Watts, Latin America correspondent for the Guardian. “It greatly affects the livelihoods of the people in the forests, because the last remaining areas of forest are all in indigenous territory. It's the territory of the Ka’apor people.”
Maranhao, in the far north of Brazil, is the poorest state in the country, and until about 40 or 50 years ago it was quite heavily forested. But in recent decades it has been largely cleared for cropland and for grazing pastures.
In the past decade, Brazil has taken serious steps to reduce illegal logging, such as establishing wider indigenous territories, imposing much higher fines on illegal loggers and using satellite imagery to locate areas th