Satellites, drones and artificial intelligence: technology helps protect the Amazon

“The jungle swallowed them,” concludes La Vorágine, José Eustasio Rivera’s century-old novel that took the eyes of a very Caribbean and Andean Colombia to its vast Amazonia. Humans, tiny in the face of the power of a lush and all-powerful nature, have advanced in these decades in their exploitation of the vast Amazon River basin, the world’s largest, but continue to face enormous problems. To control those who produce themselves, such as defores…