Despite substantial investments in high-frequency, remote-sensed forest monitoring in the Amazon, early deforestation alerts gen- erated by these systems rarely reach the most directly affected populations in time to deter deforestation. We study a community monitoring program that facilitated transfer of early deforesta- tion alerts from the Global Forest Watch network to indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon and trained and incentivized community members to patrol forests in response to those alerts. The program was randomly assigned to 39 of 76 communities.
