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  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Rambouillet. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france047.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Hagenau. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france043.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france037.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france036.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france035.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france032.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france031.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france030.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france027.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france019.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Hagenau. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france017.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france014.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france010.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france007.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france001.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Hagenau. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france048.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france040.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france033.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france025.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france016.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france011.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france004.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france003.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Hagenau. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france046.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france044.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france042.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france041.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france039.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Rambouillet. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france038.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france034.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france029.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france028.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france026.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france023.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france022.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france021.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france015.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france013.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france012.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france009.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france008.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Hagenau. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france006.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france002.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france045.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france020.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france018.jpg
  • DEFORESTATION STORMS, France. Champagne Ardenne. Trees uprooted by high winds, woodland razed to the ground, forest devastated by storms and hurricanes, France. In the Great storm. A mixture of very dry weather followed by heavy rains caused the root systems to be weakly anchored to the ground. High velocity winds tore  up millions of trees across Europe. Hundreds of million of tons of timber  flooded the market. Controversy surrounds whether forests should be managed or left to recover by nature's way.
    forest_france005.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
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Family outside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling, after forest fires. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
    yanomami_brazil029.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
  • 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 />
<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
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  • Chief Almir Narayamogo Surui in his office in Cacaol<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
  • Chief Almir consults with young Surui doing GPS geolocalisation inside Surui territory primary rainforest interior.<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 indians using GPS geolocalisation inside Surui territory primary rainforest interior.<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
  • Chief Almir Narayamogo in the Surui territory, primary rainforest interior. Surui territory primary rainforest interior.<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
  • Chief Almir Narayamogo, with his apple computer, the other holds a gps reciever, they are mapping in the Surui territory, primary rainforest interior.<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
  • Corinne Moutout, journalist with Chief Almir  Narayamogo of the Surui tribe<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
  • Illegal logging by timber traffickers a few months. Rainforest canopy destroyed, timber and sawdust everywhere. Small trees and undergrowth damaged<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
  • 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 />
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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
  • 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
  • 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 />
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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, hunter with shotgun, and his family in their 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
  • 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 />
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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 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 girl 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, families, on the verandah with hammock, in their 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 />
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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 village home with parrot, jeans and fruit trees<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
  • Chief Almir Narayamogo drives his 4x4 four wheel drive through the rainforest interior of 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 />
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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
  • Chief Almir Narayamogo with iphone, another with GPS equipment in the Surui territory, primary rainforest interior.<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
  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Traditional round Molaca or Shabono dwelling.Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
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  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Children playing. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
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  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Living inside Molaca or Shabono traditional dwelling. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
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  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
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  • YANOMAMI INDIANS. South America, Brazil, Amazon. Yanomami indians, a primitive tribe, living in the tropical rainforest, in communal traditional molaca dwellings. They are huntergatherers passing on their traditions and skills  from generation to generation. They are the guardians of their forest and its fragile ecosystem. Their lifestyle and their lands diminish every year in the face of encroaching deforestation, forest fires, campesinos who slash and burn primary rainforest, from cattle ranching, commercial plantations, gold and diamond mines.
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  • BURNT FOREST, Amazon, near Boavista, northern Brazil, South America. White and black silhouettes of burnt forest. 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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  • The family of Along Saga, a hard fighting resistance fighter who died a decade before. The Penan native people are learning to live a sedentary lifestyle which includes living in wooden houses, farming and fishing. They were traditionally nomadic hunter-gatherers. These days they have become forcibly settled as their hunting grounds have been largely destroyed by logging concessions and palm-oil plantations. Limbang Sarawak Malaysia 2015<br />
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There are only a few, difficult to find, scarce communities of semi-nomadic Penan nowadays, who live like of those of old, hidden away deep in the tropical forest, hunter-gathering, wearing loin cloth ‘chawats’, hunting wild boar with blowpipes and poison arrows, and extracting sago-root flour, their staple carbohydrate, by hand.<br />
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Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
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Sarawak's primary rainforests have been systematically logged over decades, threatening the sustainable lifestyle of its indigenous peoples who relied on nomadic hunter-gathering and rotational slash & burn cultivation of small areas of forest to survive. Now only a few areas of pristine rainforest remain; for the Dayaks and Penan this spells disaster, a rapidly disappearing way of life, forced re-settlement, many becoming wage-slaves. Large and medium size tree trunks have been sawn down and dragged out by bulldozers, leaving destruction in their midst, and for the most part a primary rainforest ecosystem beyond repair. Nowadays palm oil plantations and hydro-electric dam projects cover hundreds of thousands of hectares of what was the world's oldest rainforest ecosystem which had some of the highest rates of flora and fauna endemism, species found there and nowhere else on Earth, and this deforestation has done irreparable ecological damage to that region
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  • 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 />
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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 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 />
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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 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<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. 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. 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
  • 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
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