Centro Cultural Hijos
De Nuestra Tierra: The Project "Sons of Our Land", started
in 1986, currently displays 132 sculptures of different indians who posed
for me at their tribes. It aims at giving the world a real image of the
native who exist in the American Continent today.
Amanaka'a Amazon Network:
Amanaka'a works directly with Amazon leaders in support of their projects
for survival, human rights, the environment, health, sustainable development,
education, and more. Our friends in the forest provide you the most up-to-date
news that the press often ignores.
World Ethnic Survey:
Search for information on ethnic, native and nationalists affairs all over
the world.
The Ethnologue: is
a catalogue of more than 6,700 languages spoken in 228 countries. The Ethnologue
Name Index lists over 39,000 language names, dialect names, and alternate
names. The Ethnologue Language Family Index organizes languages according
to language families.
Living Languages of the Americas:
has been compiled as a reference tool that documents the wide diversity
of languages and cultures in the Americas. How many different languages
are spoken in your country? This question is difficult to answer in some
countries of the Americas. People are often quite surprised to learn that
in some countries, over 100 languages are spoken.
Brasil-Environment:
web page links on all areas of the Brazilian and Amazonian environment.
Amazonia from space:
you will find here LANDSAT images used by PRODES (the Brazilian Amazon Deforestation
Survey Project) in 1991. These images show LANDSAT bands 3 in blue, 4 in
green and 5 in red. They were received by INPE's station of Cuiabá,
processed in INPE's Cachoeira Paulista Space Centre and produced by IBM
Rio Scientific Centre.
EarthShots:
These images show a portion of the state of Rondônia, Brazil, in which
tropical deforestation has occurred. Approximately 30% (3,562,800
sq km) of the world's tropical forests are in Brazil. The estimated average
deforestation rate from 1978 to 1988 was 15,000 sq km per year.
Kayapo Indian headdresses:
How a photographic assignment served as the catalyst in the Smithsonian's
acquisition of a collection of beautiful Brazilian Indian feather headdresses.
Amazon Interactive:
Explore the geography of the Ecuadorian Amazon through online games and
activities. Learn about the rainforest and the Quichua people who call it
home. Discover the ways in which the Quichua live off the land. Then try
your hand at running a community-based ecotourism project along the Río
Napo. |