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

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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.

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