Açaí with the Kayapo in Brazil

The Kayapo Indigenous group of Pará, Brazil eat wild açaí that grows in their protected rain forest. The health of the Kayapo and the rain forest are in constant jeopardy. Loggers and miners threaten to deforest the area as big as the size of New York State. The Kayapo need to generate a sustainable income from their renewable forest products to meet their needs and ward of the mass infiltration in their area. Dr. Rodolfo Salm, tropical biologist and Dr. Lisa Feder, cultural anthropologist, are raising the money to reforest barren lands with açaí trees, a source of nutrition for the Kayapo and a potential source of sustainable income for this people. For more information, contact Lisa Feder at lkf7@cornell.edu.

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• mona
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• sambazon
• Amazon
• Kayapo
• Brazil
• grassroots
• outreach
• nonprofit

[zxcasd098]

I'm from Brazil and no here promotes Açaí as a loose weight product ,that only proves that the American media is a hoe money making machine without scrupulous only interested in fooling people to make more money as possible in a short period. Here in Brazil Açaí is only popular because it is a good natural vitamins font , we buy the frozen pulp and it is refreshing in the summer , nothing else , it is a good fruit like many other , do your research , bye from Brazil

[locavore619]

Lisa, Thanks for making this video available to all through YouTube, rather than having to pay for it throguh our library (more and more difficult with budget cuts).

~ Laura Gonzalez, Anthro teacher

[ben5028]

Here is another quote for the Kayapo from the indigenous Indians of North America:

All the races and tribes in the world are like the different colored flowers in one meadow. All are beautiful. As children of the Creator they must all be respected. "

[damlurker]

@ben5028 lol!

[ben5028]

There was another tribe long ago in another land: And one their great chiefs spoke these words:

The white man promised us many things but they only kept one, the promised to take our land and they did.

[acerb45666555]

2-with YouTube, they can talk directly to other Native tribes up here and the Saami of finland! and the Maoris in New zealand!! they can avoid lots of red tape and stupid officials.

[acerb45666555]

these tribes need Youtube!! what better way to learn of the outside world!

[bgwohlman]

acai harvesting is giving them an alternative to deforestation. leave them alone and they and the forest die.

[GildedTermite]

So they are introducing genetically modified açaí trees into their habitat? If that's the case I would be cautious, even if the intentions are good because we still don't know the full effects of genetically modified agriculture on human beings and the surrounding ecosystem.

[Tigagirl]

Yeah comments like this are very useful!!