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| Quick on the trigger - Almir Suruí carries his notebook up and down. Equipped with a slide presentation, he seeks partnerships with private companies, foundations and NGOs for projects of the development plan of his people |
Among his countrymen, Almir Narayamoga Suruí is respected as a skillful
hunter. However, the supreme leader of the suruís-paiteres, who lived in
the forest up to the age of 12, with very rare contacts with the urban
man, and did not speak Portuguese, says he has put his bow and his
arrows aside. "Today, my weapon is my computer", states the chief, or
labway esage, in the tupi-mondé language. "I am a fan of technology. I
know the power it holds."
At the age of 37, with an unfinished
university course in applied biology and another in progress in
environmental management, Almir is a veteran of the modern tools of
communication.
In 2007, he called the world's attention on seeking, and
closing, a partnership with Google to monitor the deforestation in the
Indigenous land of Sete de Setembro, on the border between Rondônia and
Mato Grosso. Today, he spends more time in the city of Riozinho, Cacoal
district, in Rondônia, than in the village. He travels two to three
times almost each month abroad to give lectures.
He has become a coveted
celebrity, he is not the folkloric Indian linked to the image of
exploitation we have of an Indian. "My salary is still smaller than that
of former presidents of the Republic", he answers the question about
his personal finances, also showing his mastery of irony. READ more HERE
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