Trading Bows and Arrows for Laptops: Carbon & Culture

The Surui Cultural Map shows the Surui tribe of the Amazon's vision of their forest, including their territory and traditional history. To create this map, Surui youth interviewed their elders to document and map their ancestral sites, such as the site of first contact with western civilization in 1969, places where the tribes battled with colonists in the 1970s, as well as places of interest, like sightings of jaguars, capybaras and toucans. To preserve their forest and their livelihood, the Surui are entering the Carbon Credit marketplace with software called Open Data Kit to measure carbon and monitor any illegal logging in their forests using Android smartphones.

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[demz taters]

Even if that was true, there are good, common-sense reasons for not consuming natural resources that have been developing for millennia within the span of a few generations.

[Roxroy Bollers]

Go google



[atroise]

Wow what a lovely attitude, the planet earth says thank you very much...Google....

[x0I0l0x]

Awesome - fantastic Google! Wish we could spread this news fast. So much illegal logging all over the world - we are in the courts regularly trying to stop it! Protect the biodiversity that is left for the future generations!

[CarptheFish]

Hahaha, no.

[Jorge Arnaldo de Paula]

Excelente a iniciativa, no entanto e como sempre...estas iniciativas não são divulgadas como deveriam aqui no BRASIL. aposto que "LÁ FORA" os gringos já sabem desta ferramenta e até mesmo ultilizam dela para conhecer NOSSA Amazônia.

[maniski]

Give the indians good weapons to protect their homeland

[Leobons]

I'm from Brazil and these are probably the more assimilated indians ever. They are using football jerseys!

[LoneWolfSquall3000]

There is no single scientific evidence that carbon dioxide emissions are causing global warming.

Human impact = 1%.

[verifique pessoa]

excellent google always concerned about the environment