We had some really great threads last year, with the following four nominated for the Thread of the Year award in this January's Environment Site Awards ceremony.
Deforestation ForumGod has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools. - John Muir
Amazon tribe enlists Google in battle with illegal loggers
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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I was assuming that the tribes people would be using the photos as evidence of logging, possibly in legal action or a campaign to get better defence measures. Was I wrong?
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'There are only two ways to live your life, accept things as they are or take responsibility for changing them' Bhagat Singh (even if you don't agree with how he chose to apply this philosophy)
Do they have access to lawyers and stuff too then?
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With the help of the US-based Amazon Conservation Team he has been training his people in IT.
I don't have a clue.
However they didn't just discover a computer with wireless interenet access lying around in their forest so I would have thought that they would be able to access lawyers and things if they wanted them. I'm not sure where the money would come from, unless they could get one of their tribe to be sponsored to study law or a lawyer to take on the case for free or something. But if the case met the aims of the Amazon Conservation Team that has got involved then maybe they would be able to provide funds.
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'There are only two ways to live your life, accept things as they are or take responsibility for changing them' Bhagat Singh (even if you don't agree with how he chose to apply this philosophy)
Amazon tribe enlists Google in battle with illegal loggers
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