Biocultural Conservation in the Amazon
How an Amazon Tribe Has Combined Traditional Knowledge With Science and Technology to Save Its Rainforests and Its People
by Chief Almir Narayamoga Surui
Introduction by Rebecca Moore, founder of Google Earth Outreach
SUNDAY PLENARY: October 18, 2009
9:00am – 1:00pm
Chief Almir, 32, a tribal chief, environmentalist and political activist, portrays his and his people’s struggles to survive by protecting their culture and rainforest since they made First Contact with the Western world in 1969. He surveys the history of the Amazon, its situation today and the unusual partnership he forged with Google to use Google Earth’s high-tech tools to help his Surui people tell their story and protect their forests and culture.
