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  • Ground level view across thousands of hectares of palm oil plantations. This was originally unspoilt primary rainforest. Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
<br />
These regions were were part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
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
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Ground level view across thousands of hectares of palm oil plantations. This was originally unspoilt primary rainforest. Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
<br />
These regions were were part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
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
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Chief Almir consults with young Surui doing GPS geolocalisation 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
  • Chief Almir Narayamogo, with his apple computer, the other holds a gps reciever, they are mapping in the 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
  • Logging roads and camps. This was originally unspoilt primary rainforest. Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
<br />
These regions were were part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
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
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...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
    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
  • Surui indians using GPS geolocalisation 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
  • Chief Almir Narayamogo in the Surui territory, primary rainforest interior. 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
  • Unspoilt primary rainforest. Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
<br />
These regions are part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
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
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Unspoilt primary rainforest. Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
<br />
These regions are part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
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
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Logging camp. This was originally a site inside unspoilt primary rainforest. Marudi and Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
<br />
These regions were were part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
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
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Ground level view across thousands of hectares of palm oil plantations. This was originally unspoilt primary rainforest. Marudi and Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
<br />
These regions were were part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
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
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Aerial photography overlooking thousands of hectares of palm oil plantations. This was originally unspoilt primary rainforest. Near Long Akah, Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
<br />
These regions were were part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
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
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Unspoilt primary rainforest. Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
<br />
These regions are part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
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
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Logging roads. This was originally unspoilt primary rainforest. Marudi and Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
<br />
These regions were were part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
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
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Quarry for gravel to build roads into the rainforest. This was originally unspoilt primary rainforest. Marudi and Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
<br />
These regions were part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
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
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Ground level view across thousands of hectares of palm oil plantations. This was originally unspoilt primary rainforest. Marudi and Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
<br />
These regions were were part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
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
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Ground level view across thousands of hectares of palm oil plantations. This was originally unspoilt primary rainforest. Marudi and Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
<br />
These regions were were part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
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
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Aerial photography overlooking thousands of hectares of palm oil plantations. This was originally unspoilt primary rainforest. Marudi, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
<br />
These regions were were part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
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
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Aerial photography overlooking thousands of hectares of palm oil plantations. This was originally unspoilt primary rainforest. Marudi, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
<br />
These regions were were part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
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
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Aerial photography overlooking thousands of hectares of palm oil plantations. This was originally unspoilt primary rainforest. Near Long Akah, Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
<br />
These regions were were part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
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
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Aerial photography overlooking thousands of hectares of palm oil plantations. This was originally unspoilt primary rainforest. Near Long Akah, Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
<br />
These regions were were part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
<br />
Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
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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  • Ground level view across thousands of hectares of palm oil plantations. This was originally unspoilt primary rainforest. Baram, Sarawak, Malaysia 2015<br />
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These regions were were part of the world's oldest rainforest, which dates back 160 million years. The indigenous native communities’ survival depends on sustainable development of primary rainforest, a biodiversity resource, with countless insects, an array of birds and endangered species, which support one of the most diverse tropical ecosystems in the world. <br />
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Borneo native peoples and their rainforest habitat revisited two decades later: 1989/1991 and 2012/2014/2015. <br />
<br />
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
    borneo_revisited_nigel_dickinson_201...JPG
  • Surui cook and eat from their hammocks, at night, a young family outside 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
  • A modern Surui house at night with full moon<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 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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<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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Traditional stone axes for cutting trees hang inside Surui 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 modern village home at dusk with satellite dish and electricty<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 Man 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 and girl whose bodies are 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
  • 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 />
<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
  • 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 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 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 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, 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
  • 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: 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
  • 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 />
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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
    chief_almir_suirui_rondonia_brazil_n...JPG
  • Surui indians with boat 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 />
<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 and members of his family and village, 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 />
<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, wearing his feathered headdress inside 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 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
  • Chief Almir Narayamogo, with his iphone, another with a computer, and another 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
  • 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 />
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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
  • 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 />
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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
  • 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
  • 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<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, 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 />
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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 />
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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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