Google Helps Protect the Amazon Rainforest

mongabay.com reported that Google has for the first time confirmed its involvement in a project aimed at helping protect indigenous tribes' land deep within the Amazon rainforest from illegal encroachments.

"The Amazon rainforest and its indigenous inhabitants are rapidly disappearing, which will have serious consequences both locally and globally," Megan Quinn, a Google Earth spokeswoman, told the San Francisco Chronicle. "This project can raise awareness of the Surui people's struggle to protect their land and culture among the 200 million users of Google Earth worldwide by delivering images to them."