The natives of this tribe in the Brazilian Amazon have traded bows and arrows for laptops and smartphones to fight deforestation and protect their land. Thanks to new technologies, they will preserve their survival. What is this unusual alliance with Google engineers…?
The result of this collaboration is a map of 243,000 hectares with which the Suruí have monitored the entire forest around them.
Thanks to the immediacy of the Internet, new mobile devices, Google Earth, GPS and other technologies, the Suruí are vigilant of any threat to their ecosystem.
The Suruí used to live surrounded by jungles in the state of Rondônia, in northern Brazil, until the construction of a highway made their reserve accessible to the rest of the world and deforestation began, which became a major threat.
Almir Suruí (the first member of the tribe with a university education), searched for his territory in Google Earth and decided to travel to California to meet with a Google manager and, with the help of new technologies, create an interactive map of the Suruí’s land to preserve the ecosystem.
Rebeca Moore, head of Google Earth’s social branch, understood the threat posed by illegal loggers and mining companies and facilitated Google’s technology to protect the Suruí’s land, incorporating software into the smartphone to send and collect data from anywhere in the forest.
Today, this data not only serves to map the Suruí’s territory, but also to warn of its rapid deterioration at the click of a button, making it possible to report deforestation wherever it occurs in real time and send images immediately to the authorities.
The 3D atlas that Google Earth and the Suruí have created goes beyond an inventory of the flora and fauna of this territory, allowing new generations and any Internet user to access the tribe’s history, culture and traditions. The current challenge is to extend this initiative to other South American countries.
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