POSITION SUMMARY The Andean Amazon maintains large tracts of intact forest, however, increasing deforestation is a critical problem and monitoring and responding to deforestation in a timely, accurate, and effective way is a core problem for forest users, policymakers and law enforcement. Amazon Conservation and Conservación Amazónica-ACCA’s innovative program focused on advancing the emerging field of near real-time deforestation monitoring in the Peruvian Amazon seeks to tackle these challenges through, 1) timely analysis of deforestation alerts and high-resolution imagery to identify current patterns and drivers of deforestation (https://maaproject.org), and 2) providing forest users, land managers, law enforcement and other actors on the ground in Madre de Dios, Peru with techn