Dartmouth-led team awarded NASA grant to assess changes in biodiversity hotspot in Peru

(Dartmouth College) The Madre de Dios River watershed in southeastern Peru is a tropical biodiversity hotspot in the Amazon and home to uncontacted Indigenous peoples, which has come under threat in recent years due to an expansion in artisanal and small-scale gold mining. Through a NASA grant, researchers from Dartmouth, Wake Forest University and the Centro de Innovaci ó n Cient í fica Amaz ó nica (CINCIA), will use remotely sensed data to examine how gold mining has affected land cover in the region.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news