Almir surui biography for kids

Air Date: Week of August 24, 2007

Chief Almir Surui explains one of the cultural maps made by members of his community with the help of the Amazon Conservation Team. (Courtesy of Amazon Conservation Team)

Filmmaker Denise Zmekhol talks with Bruce Gellerman about the Surui people of the Amazon, the subjects of her new PBS film “Children of the Amazon.”

Transcript

GELLERMAN: It’s Living on Earth.

I’m Bruce Gellerman.

[BIRDS IN FOREST]

GELLERMAN: This is the sound of the Amazon rainforest. It’s one of the richest places on the planet for plants and wildlife and home to scores of remote indigenous tribes.

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The forest is also one of the most important places in the world for regulating carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

[CHAIN SAWS AND TREE FALLS]

GELLERMAN: This too is the sound of the Amazon. Chainsaws and bulldozers have been carving away at the rainforest for decades clearing land for highways, cattle ranches and soybean plantations.

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