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  • FLOODS & DEFORESTATION, Philippines. Flooded crops and cultivation. Thousands of people died during flash floods in Leyte, the Philippines. Heavy rains brought floodwaters into river deltas where the poorest communities live, with  access to water; shanty towns, squatter camps were rapidly washed away.  The rapidity of flooding was blamed as much on logging and deforestation as the rain storms themselves. The Philippines, as the in rest of South East Asia, is rife with corruption amongst state, government and military officials who make a profit from illegal logging concessions.
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  • Surui cash crops, banana plantations inside Surui territory<br />
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An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui cash crops, banana plantations inside Surui territory<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • A Surui indian youth tends to the drying of his family's coffee bean crop<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • A Surui indian youth tends to the drying of his family's coffee bean crop<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • A Surui indian youth tends to the drying of his family's coffee bean crop<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • The land abutting the Surui territory is mainly cattle country, almost completey denuded of trees. The Frontier of the Surui territory is marked by a natural boundary, the beginning of a dense forest<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Illegal logging by timber traffickers a few months. Rainforest canopy destroyed, timber and sawdust everywhere. Small trees and undergrowth damaged<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Illegal logging by timber traffickers a few months. Rainforest canopy destroyed, timber and sawdust everywhere. Small trees and undergrowth damaged. Surui man looks at devastaion, his body is painted with traditional blue/black tattoos<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Illegal logging by timber traffickers a few months. Rainforest canopy destroyed, timber and sawdust everywhere. Small trees and undergrowth damaged<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Night time: A traditional thatched Surui house that hasn't changed design for several generations or hundreds of years<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Chief Almir's brother painstakingly plaits a feathered headdress for when the Surui choose to wear traditional attire, such as at meetings, weddings etc<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui girl whose body is painted with traditional blue/black tattoos<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui, families, on the verandah with hammock, in their home<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui territory: Untouched primary rainforest with huge trees<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Huge trees inside Surui territory primary rainforest<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Chief Almir Narayamogo in the Surui territory, another Surui indian is using a GPS geolocalisation equipment reciever primary rainforest interior.<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Champagne brand: Dosnon & Lepage. Champagne bottles. Avirey-Lingey, Champagne Ardennes, France..A new generation of vignerons around Troyes, city of the Aube, the forgotten region of Champagne, France. These new, but not necessarily young, producers, make Champagnes that are in many ways anti-Champagnes. Where Champagne for a century has made a myth of the art of blending, in which the usual distinctions of terroir, grape and vintage disappear into the house blend, these producers take a Burgundian approach to making Champagne, emphasizing all these qualities that are taken for granted as important in other regions but are largely ignored in Champagne. In a sense they each are a microcosm for larger changes taking place throughout the Champagne region, not just in the Cote des Bars, and for changing perceptions of Champagne on the part of American consumers
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  • Champagne brand: Dosnon & Lepage Domain. Champagne vineyards, Avirey-Lingey, Champagne Ardennes, France..A new generation of vignerons around Troyes, city of the Aube, the forgotten region of Champagne, France. These new, but not necessarily young, producers, make Champagnes that are in many ways anti-Champagnes. Where Champagne for a century has made a myth of the art of blending, in which the usual distinctions of terroir, grape and vintage disappear into the house blend, these producers take a Burgundian approach to making Champagne, emphasizing all these qualities that are taken for granted as important in other regions but are largely ignored in Champagne. In a sense they each are a microcosm for larger changes taking place throughout the Champagne region, not just in the Cote des Bars, and for changing perceptions of Champagne on the part of American consumers
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  • Champagne brand: Dosnon & Lepage. Pictured are Davy Dosnon, the vigneron, and Nicolas Laugerotte, sales manager in the champagne cave with stacked  white grape champagne bottles. Avirey-Lingey, Champagne Ardennes, France..A new generation of vignerons around Troyes, city of the Aube, the forgotten region of Champagne, France. These new, but not necessarily young, producers, make Champagnes that are in many ways anti-Champagnes. Where Champagne for a century has made a myth of the art of blending, in which the usual distinctions of terroir, grape and vintage disappear into the house blend, these producers take a Burgundian approach to making Champagne, emphasizing all these qualities that are taken for granted as important in other regions but are largely ignored in Champagne. In a sense they each are a microcosm for larger changes taking place throughout the Champagne region, not just in the Cote des Bars, and for changing perceptions of Champagne on the part of American consumers
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  • Bertrand Gautherot, Vouette & Sorbee, farmer and winemaker. Showing the difference between organic and chemical vine production. The chemical vines have a larger root system, needing more water. Buxieres-Sur-Arce, Champagne Ardennes, France..A new generation of vignerons around Troyes, city of the Aube, the forgotten region of Champagne, France. These new, but not necessarily young, producers, make Champagnes that are in many ways anti-Champagnes. Where Champagne for a century has made a myth of the art of blending, in which the usual distinctions of terroir, grape and vintage disappear into the house blend, these producers take a Burgundian approach to making Champagne, emphasizing all these qualities that are taken for granted as important in other regions but are largely ignored in Champagne. In a sense they each are a microcosm for larger changes taking place throughout the Champagne region, not just in the Cote des Bars, and for changing perceptions of Champagne on the part of American consumers
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  • Bertrand Gautherot, Vouette & Sorbee, farmer and winemaker. In his cave warehouse. Buxieres-Sur-Arce, Champagne Ardennes, France..A new generation of vignerons around Troyes, city of the Aube, the forgotten region of Champagne, France. These new, but not necessarily young, producers, make Champagnes that are in many ways anti-Champagnes. Where Champagne for a century has made a myth of the art of blending, in which the usual distinctions of terroir, grape and vintage disappear into the house blend, these producers take a Burgundian approach to making Champagne, emphasizing all these qualities that are taken for granted as important in other regions but are largely ignored in Champagne. In a sense they each are a microcosm for larger changes taking place throughout the Champagne region, not just in the Cote des Bars, and for changing perceptions of Champagne on the part of American consumers
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  • Cedric Bouchard, vigneron, showing the tissue wrapping paper for his individual champagnes, each one coming from a different parcel of vineyard. The map and name matches the individual label.  'Roses de Jeanne'. Celles-Sur-Ource, Champagne, France..A new generation of vignerons around Troyes, city of the Aube, the forgotten region of Champagne, France. These new, but not necessarily young, producers, make Champagnes that are in many ways anti-Champagnes. Where Champagne for a century has made a myth of the art of blending, in which the usual distinctions of terroir, grape and vintage disappear into the house blend, these producers take a Burgundian approach to making Champagne, emphasizing all these qualities that are taken for granted as important in other regions but are largely ignored in Champagne. In a sense they each are a microcosm for larger changes taking place throughout the Champagne region, not just in the Cote des Bars, and for changing perceptions of Champagne on the part of American consumers
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  • Cedric Bouchard, vigneron, hipsterish in birkenstocks, sitting on an oak barrel at his champagne domain 'Roses de Jeanne'. Celles-Sur-Ource, Champagne, France..A new generation of vignerons around Troyes, city of the Aube, the forgotten region of Champagne, France. These new, but not necessarily young, producers, make Champagnes that are in many ways anti-Champagnes. Where Champagne for a century has made a myth of the art of blending, in which the usual distinctions of terroir, grape and vintage disappear into the house blend, these producers take a Burgundian approach to making Champagne, emphasizing all these qualities that are taken for granted as important in other regions but are largely ignored in Champagne. In a sense they each are a microcosm for larger changes taking place throughout the Champagne region, not just in the Cote des Bars, and for changing perceptions of Champagne on the part of American consumers
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  • DEFORESTATION PRIMARY RAINFOREST,  Amazon, near Boavista, northern Brazil, South America. Rural farming and agricultural development push man's frontiers deeper into primary rainforest. Ecological biosphere and fragile ecosystem where flora and fauna, and native lifestyles are threatened by progress and development. The rainforest is home to many plants and animals who are endangered or facing extinction. This region is home to indigenous primitive and tribal peoples including the Yanomami and Macuxi.
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  • Corinne Moutout, journalist with Chief Almir  Narayamogo of the Surui tribe<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • The land abutting the Surui territory is mainly cattle country, almost completey denuded of trees. The Frontier of the Surui territory is marked by a natural boundary, the beginning of a dense forest<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • The land abutting the Surui territory is mainly cattle country, almost completey denuded of trees. The Frontier of the Surui territory is marked by a natural boundary, the beginning of a dense forest<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • The land abutting the Surui territory is mainly cattle country, almost completey denuded of trees. The Frontier of the Surui territory is marked by a natural boundary, the beginning of a dense forest<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • The land abutting the Surui territory is mainly cattle country, almost completey denuded of trees. The Frontier of the Surui territory is marked by a natural boundary, the beginning of a dense forest<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui girl with logged tree trunk. Her body is painted with traditional blue/black tattoos. Illegal logging by timber traffickers a few months. Rainforest canopy destroyed, timber and sawdust everywhere. Small trees and undergrowth damaged. <br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui girl with logged tree trunk. Her body is painted with traditional blue/black tattoos. Illegal logging by timber traffickers a few months. Rainforest canopy destroyed, timber and sawdust everywhere. Small trees and undergrowth damaged. <br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Illegal logging by timber traffickers a few months. Rainforest canopy destroyed, timber and sawdust everywhere. Small trees and undergrowth damaged<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Illegal logging by timber traffickers a few months. Rainforest canopy destroyed, timber and sawdust everywhere. Small trees and undergrowth damaged<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Illegal logging by timber traffickers a few months. Rainforest canopy destroyed, timber and sawdust everywhere. Small trees and undergrowth damaged. Surui man looks at devastaion, his body is painted with traditional blue/black tattoos<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Illegal logging by timber traffickers a few months. Rainforest canopy destroyed, timber and sawdust everywhere. Small trees and undergrowth damaged<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Illegal logging by timber traffickers a few months. Rainforest canopy destroyed, timber and sawdust everywhere. Small trees and undergrowth damaged<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Illegal logging by timber traffickers a few months. Rainforest canopy destroyed, timber and sawdust everywhere. Small trees and undergrowth damaged<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Illegal logging by timber traffickers a few months. Rainforest canopy destroyed, timber and sawdust everywhere. Small trees and undergrowth damaged. Surui man looks at devastaion, his body is painted with traditional blue/black tattoos<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Illegal logging by timber traffickers a few months. Rainforest canopy destroyed, timber and sawdust everywhere. Small trees and undergrowth damaged<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Illegal logging by timber traffickers a few months. Rainforest canopy destroyed, timber and sawdust everywhere. Small trees and undergrowth damaged. Surui man looks at devastaion, his body is painted with traditional blue/black tattoos<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Illegal logging by timber traffickers a few months. Rainforest canopy destroyed, timber and sawdust everywhere. Small trees and undergrowth damaged. Surui man looks at devastaion, his body is painted with traditional blue/black tattoos<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui cook and eat from their hammocks, at night, a young family outside at night<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui cook and eat from their hammocks, at night, the hammocks hanging from the rafters of a traditional thatched Surui style house that hasn't changed for several generations<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui cook and eat from their hammocks, at night, the hammocks hanging from the rafters of a traditional thatched Surui style house that hasn't changed for several generations<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui cook and eat from their hammocks, at night, the hammocks hanging from the rafters of a traditional thatched Surui style house that hasn't changed for several generations<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui cook and eat from their hammocks, at night, the hammocks hanging from the rafters of a traditional thatched Surui style house that hasn't changed for several generations<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui cook and eat from their hammocks, at night, the hammocks hanging from the rafters of a traditional thatched Surui style house that hasn't changed for several generations<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • A modern Surui house at night with full moon<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Night time: A traditional thatched Surui house that hasn't changed design for several generations or hundreds of years<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui, hunter with shotgun, and his family in their home at night<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui, hunter with shotgun, and his family in their home at night<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui, hunter with shotgun, and his family in their home at night<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui, hunter with shotgun, and his family in their home at night<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui, hunter with shotgun, and his family in their home at night<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
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In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
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They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
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  • Surui home at night<br />
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An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
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In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Watching TV. Surui, families, in their homes at night<br />
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An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Traditional stone axes for cutting trees hang inside Surui home<br />
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An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui modern village home at dusk with satellite dish and electricty<br />
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An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Young Surui workers return from working in their plantations to relax at sunset on their home verandah<br />
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An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Young Surui workers return from working in their plantations to relax at sunset on their home verandah<br />
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An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
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In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui Man whose body is painted with traditional blue/black tattoos<br />
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An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
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In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui boy and girl whose bodies are painted with traditional blue/black tattoos<br />
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An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
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In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • At school: Indigenous teachers run a comprehensive course in environmental education, using diagrams and charts made from the Surui territory<br />
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An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • At school: Indigenous teachers run a comprehensive course in environmental education, using diagrams and charts made from the Surui territory<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • At school: Indigenous teachers run a comprehensive course in environmental education, using diagrams and charts made from the Surui territory<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • At school: Indigenous teachers run a comprehensive course in environmental education, using diagrams and charts made from the Surui territory<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • A Surui meeting of tribes in their traditional meeting hut, where they write up a declaration to defend their land against deforestation. <br />
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An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Chief Almir Narayamogo Surui, wearing a google shirt, at a Surui meeting in their traditional meeting hut, where they write up a declaration to defend their land against deforestation. The declaration is written up on his Apple computer<br />
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An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Chief Almir's brother painstakingly plaits a feathered headdress for when the Surui choose to wear traditional attire, such as at meetings, weddings etc<br />
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An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Chief Almir's brother painstakingly plaits a feathered headdress for when the Surui choose to wear traditional attire, such as at meetings, weddings etc<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Chief Almir's mother, with traditional tattoo, the oldest person in the village<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Chief Almir's mother, with traditional tattoo, the oldest person in the village<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui children play with old suitcases and a plastic motorbike<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui Indians in the cold winter morning with their parrot<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui boy whose body is painted with traditional blue/black tattoos<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui boy whose body is painted with traditional blue/black tattoos<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui families looking after their children. Cleaning insect bites.<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui families looking after their children. Cleaning insect bites.<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui woman making beads for traditional and tourist neclaces,<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui woman making neclaces, watched by her parrot<br />
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An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui girl whose body is painted with traditional blue/black tattoos<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui girl whose body is painted with traditional blue/black tattoos<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui village home with parrot, jeans and fruit trees<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Chief Almir Narayamogo Surui in his office in Cacaol<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Chief Almir Narayamogo Surui in his office in Cacaol<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Chief Almir Narayamogo Surui in his office in Cacaol<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Chief Almir Narayamogo Surui in his office in Cacaol<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Chief Almir Narayamogo Surui in his office in Cacaol<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Chief Almir Narayamogo drives his 4x4 four wheel drive through the rainforest interior of the Surui territory<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui territory: Untouched primary rainforest with huge trees<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui territory primary rainforest interior.<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Huge trees inside Surui territory primary rainforest<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Huge trees inside Surui territory primary rainforest<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Huge trees inside Surui territory primary rainforest<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui indians with boat inside Surui territory, primary rainforest interior.<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui indians with boat inside Surui territory, primary rainforest interior.<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui indians using Timbtrack technology inside Surui territory primary rainforest interior.<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui indians using Timbtrack technology inside Surui territory primary rainforest interior.<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui indians using Timbtrack technology inside Surui territory primary rainforest interior.<br />
<br />
An Amazonian tribal chief Almir Narayamogo, leader of 1350 Surui Indians in Rondônia, near Cacaol, Brazil, with a $100,000 bounty on his head, is fighting for the survival of his people and their forest, and using the world’s modern hi-tech tools; computers, smartphones, Google Earth and digital forestry surveillance. So far their fight has been very effective, leading to a most promising and novel result. In 2013, Almir Narayamogo, led his people to be the first and unique indigenous tribe in the world to manage their own REDD+ carbon project and sell carbon credits to the industrial world. By marketing the CO2 capacity of 250 000 hectares of their virgin forest, the forty year old Surui, has ensured the preservation, as well as a future of his community. <br />
<br />
In 2009, the four clans and 25 Surui villages voted in favour of a total moratorium on logging and the carbon credits project. <br />
<br />
They still face deforestation problems, such as illegal logging, and gold mining which causes pollution of their river systems
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
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