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SIVAM(and other things like it): Do We Care?
There has been a lot of dicussion in class recently on whether or not we care about SIVAM. Unfortunately, we do.
Not a whole lot, but some. First, here's some info on SIVAM.
According to the Raytheon webpage, SIVAM
will help Brazil deal with problems such as:
illegal gold mining
deforestation
drug production and smuggling
land conflicts
Nowhere in this list is there any mention about protective the wildlife of the
Amazon rainforest. And, although it does
look like some of the equipment SIVAM is using could be helpful for monitoring animals, its also largely a brand
new way of doing things. They will want some sort of ground confirmation, at least originally, which leaves the
fauna group in about the same position they were before. We're not really doing a whole lot to save the rainforest;
we're showing that the rainforest needs saving through the monitoring methods we
have developed. Our goal as a group is to be able to monitor the fauna in order
to reinforce data found by other groups. Once a problem is detected, the
solutions to those problems can then be implemented.
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