Indians Use Google Earth and GPS To Protect Amazon

Damien1972 writes "Deep in the most remote jungles of South America, Amazon Indians are using Google Earth, GPS, and other technologies to protect their fast-dwindling home. Tribes in Suriname, Brazil, and Colombia are combining their traditional knowledge of the rainforest with Western technology to conserve forests and maintain ties to their history and cultural traditions. Indians use Google Earth to remotely monitor their lands by checking for signs of miners and GPS to map their lands. "Google Earth is used primarily for vigilance," says Vasco van Roosmalen, program director of a nonprofit involved in the project."

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Who in the feck writes this titles?

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Indians live in that subcontinent over near the Asia. Various Native and Indengious people live in South America.

And you wonder why Americans are called fat lazy and stupid.

Re:Native Americans use Google Earth

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funny, the link you provided has lots of information on the naming of America which i already said was true. It has nothing to do with the application of the label AMERICAN. Once again, Sir Francis drake was a Brit. Here is a link to prove it wikipedia link . Lots of great information. Just as true as your post, but says nothing about why americans are called americans and canadians, mexicans, brazillians etc are not called americans. Do you even understand the topic? We are not discussing who the Americas are named after, you are the one who brought that up.

If you just learned about Vespucci in school and just felt like sharing this with us, sorry for the harsh reply, but we already know this.