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ACT In the Media: 2007

	Rain Forest Rebel Smithsonian.com In the Amazon, researchers documenting the ways of native peoples join forces with an embattled chief to stop illegal loggers and developers from destroying the earth's most precious wilderness.
	Tribe and Google Earth team to support Amazon forests The New York Times SAO PAULO — A Brazilian Indian tribe is linking up with Google Earth to try to capture vivid images that could help stop loggers and miners from deforesting the jungle and digging for gold on its vast Amazon reservation.
	With the help of GPS, Amazonian tribes reclaim the rain forest  Wired Magazine In his hands, though, he's holding something that places him firmly in the 21st century: a new gray Garmin GPS device.
	Awaiting Internet Access, Remote Brazilian Tribes Debate Its Promise, Peril  The Washington Post "We're always looking for ways to improve our quality of life while protecting our culture..."
	Amazon rainforest children to get medicinal plant training from shamans  Mongabay.com A group using innovative approaches to preserving culture and improving health among Amazonian rainforest tribes has been awarded a $100,000 grant from Nature's Path.
	The Shaman is in  The Utne Reader A tiny Amazonian village mixes traditional healing and modern medicine.
	Google Earth Reaches Out  PodTech.net Google is bringing together all the technology tools at hand to help non-profit organizations tell their stories in the vivid, 3-D language of Google Earth.
	The Shielded Guianas  The American Prospect The global economy discovers the most obscure corner of the rainforest.
	Ethnobotanist honored for contributions to wilderness medicine  Mongabay.com Renowned ethnobotanist and conservationist Dr. Mark Plotkin of the Amazon Conservation Team was honored Wednesday with the 2007 Paul S. Auerbach Award.
	Authors@Google - Mark Plotkin  YouTube.com Mark Plotkin visits Google to discuss his book, "Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets." This event took place on August 29, 2006, as part of the Authors@Google series.
	"Children of the Amazon" featured on NPR Living on Earth Chief Almir Surui explains one of the cultural maps made by members of his community with the help of the Amazon Conservation Team.
	Chief Almir Surui speaks at the Google Earth Outreach launch  YouTube.com Amazonian Chief Almir Surui speaks about the devastation his tribe has faced from deforestation and how he uses Google Earth to highlight the plight of his tribe to save their territory.
	Google helps protect Amazon rainforest Mongabay.com Google is working with an indigenous tribe deep in the Amazon rainforest to protect their native lands from illegal encroachment.
	Amazon Tribes Use Latest Gadgets to Battle Developers National Geographic News Isolated tribes in the Amazon are now using satellites, computers, and even Google Earth to guard against threats from logging, agriculture, drug wars, and oil operations.
	Amazon Conservation Team wins "Innovation in Conservation Award"  Mongabay.com ...for its path-breaking efforts to enable indigenous Amazonians to maintain ties to their history and cultural traditions while protecting their rainforest home from illegal loggers and miners.

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