Jaime Paneque-Gálvez: Community Forest Monitoring with Drones in Latin America

We speak to Dr Jaime Paneque-Gálvez, Assistant Professor in the Center of Research in Environmental Geography at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. We discuss the use of drones for community forest monitoring and territorial defence, and the possibilities and challenges of community autonomy in using technology for political and socio-environmental goals.

Interviewers: Trishant Simlai and Jennifer Gabrys

Producer: Harry Murdoch

Find out more about Jaime's work on the Smart Forests Atlas.

Image source: Digital Democracy, https://wp.digital-democracy.org/we-built-a-drone/.