05/01/2010
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On the other part of the planet other tribes are also leaving their homeland because of the massive environmental damage. Almir Suruí, leader of suruí natives, from Brazil, come to Denmark to explain how Amazonian inhabitants are loosing their territories because of the profound dry emerging after the increasing rainforest destruction. Continue reading
05/01/2010
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Almir Surui has announced a partnership with the American NGO Forest Trends and USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, with the purpose to organize a fund to sell carbon credits obtained through conservation actions in Surui’s land. Continue reading
05/01/2010
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05/01/2010
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COPENHAGEN – Chief Almir Surui has announced a partnership with the American NGO Forest Trends and USAID, the United States Agency for International Development, with the purpose to organize a fund to sell carbon credits obtained through conservation actions in Surui’s land. According to Epoca Magazine, in the Planet Blog from Copenhagen, Almir Surui, one of the leaders of the Suruís in Rondonia, amazed the world three years ago when he signed an agreement with Google Earth, supported by Amazônia Conservation Team (ACT Brazil) and USAID/Brazil, to help monitor the territories and the deforestation in surrounding regions. Continue reading
05/01/2010
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Indigenous people around the world hope to earn carbon credits by preserving rainforests and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). For that to happen, however, they have to prove they own the rights to carbon credits from trees they save and manage. Brazil’s Suruí tribe appears to have just done that – and laid the groundwork for others to follow. Continue reading