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ACT In the Media: 2008

	Trading bows and arrows for laptops  YouTube.com In June 2008, a team from Google Earth Outreach traveled to western Brazil to launch a technology training program for members of several indigenous tribes living in the threatened Amazonian rainforest.
	Tattooed, Feathered Amazonians Use Internet to Save Rain Forest  Bloomberg.com Deep in the Brazilian Amazon, the indigenous Surui tribe made its first contact with the modern world barely four decades ago; electricity came to their tribal lands just last year.
	Marla Maples interviews ACT President Mark J. Plotkin Contact Talk Radio Download MP3
	Google breaks Amazon tribe's isolation  San Francisco Chronicle “On a recent afternoon deep in the Amazon's rain forest, members of the Surui tribe, which made contact with the outside world less than 40 years ago, could not resist the urge known to modern man - they googled themselves.”
	Colombia's Cofan still fighting for survival  San Francisco Chronicle Although he is only 21, Camilo Yoge has seen his indigenous tribe lose its culture, territory and traditions.
	Dr. Mehmet Oz interviews ACT President Mark Plotkin Oprah and Friends Radio He's been called an environmental hero for his work to protect the Amazon rainforests and the indigenous wisdom of native healers known as shamans.
	Amazon tribe enlists Google in battle with illegal loggers The Independent 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.
	Amazon Tribes Use Latest Gadgets to Battle Developers Daily Mirror Indians go from the Stone Age to the internet age.

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