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RFCx states it has protected over 726,000 (impact page) or 750,000 (guardian page) hectares across 8,662+ projects in 137 countries. The only non-vendor account read is a Thomson Reuters Foundation report published by The Straits Times on 11 February 2021. It is from Solok regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia, where 27 Guardian sensors had been installed more than a year earlier. Audio streams are analyzed by AI trained to pick out chainsaw sounds, and an alert goes to community patrols. Patroller Jasrialdi said logging “has totally stopped” in the area. The head of West Sumatra's forestry department, Yozarwardi Usama Putra, said he would like to expand the “early-warning system”. The same report attributes the decline in logging to a wider enforcement crackdown as well. It says RFCx planned to collect data for peer review to prove the system curbs logging. 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