Amazon tribe enlists Google in battle with illegal loggers (fwd link)

[Earl Otchingwanigan]

Greetings:  Appreciate this important posting....earmarking another tragic chapter in the human condition.... but, mmnn, was it Joe Friday that used to say, "Just the facts Ma'am".... uh, bamboo in the Amazon?, mmnn, bamboo yes, on Amazon {dot com}.  Cheers, Wayaaseshkang.    
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  Amazon tribe enlists Google in battle with illegal loggers

  By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor
  Sunday, 13 April 2008

  You may know it as Google, but in bamboo-and-thatch roundhouses deep in the
  Amazon rainforest the iconic brand goes by another name. The Surui people, one
  of the most remote on Earth, call it ragogmakan – "messenger" – and they're
  banking on the search engine to save them and their ancestral lands from
  extinction.

  The tribe – whose first contact with the modern world was less than 40 years ago
  – are replacing their bows and arrows with hi-tech gadgets in their battle for
  survival. They have already begun using satnav on their traditional trails
  through the trees. And Google Earth has just agreed to provide high-resolution
  satellite images of their forest home.

  Access full article below:
  http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/amazon-tribe-enlists-google-in-battle-with-illegal-loggers-808492.html<http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/amazon-tribe-enlists-google-in-battle-with-illegal-loggers-808492.html>
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