Sunday, January 31, 2010

JGI and Google Partner to Make a Difference

Posted by Pearson Foundation
Our friends at the Jane Goodall Institute recently released a highly informative video, "Speaking for the Forests: Indigenous Communities & Google Earth -- Partnering in REDD," which highlights how local communities can use the latest technology to help save their forests, support each other and inform national and global decisions regarding climate change, regardless of their geographic location.  To learn more about this interesting venture, take a few moments and check out the eye-opening video below:            

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1 comments:

  1. I love the message of this film! I am chair of a Texas based nonprofit called Rainforest Partnership which works with indigenous forest communities in Latin America to help them find ways to make a living so they don't have to cut down the forest. What you show in the film is a great way of helping forest communities to record what they have and to track change. I would love to find a way for Rainforest Partnership to work with JGI and Google Earth on our projects in Peru and Ecuador. Apart from helping our forest communities we want to help educate people in our US communities about deforestation and how the forest communities are working for change.
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