Since its inception in 1996, the Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) has designed and implemented conservation programs in true partnership with indigenous peoples of the Amazon.
The Suruí people of the Brazilian Amazon were first contacted only 40 years ago during construction of the Trans-Amazonian Highway. Surrounded by large-scale deforestation, they wanted to protect their way of life and tell the world that their forests are worth far more alive and standing than dead.
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Successful strategies for forest conservation in the Amazon depend on developing conservation programs that work effectively at the local level. By working with ACT and Google Earth Outreach, the Suruí developed a 50-year plan for their people and forests by combining their traditional knowledge with science and technology to find solutions to sustainable forest management.
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