Save the Planet

An Amazonian Tribal Leader Fights for His People, the Rainforest, and the Earth

By: Almir Narayamoga Surui, Corine Sombrun, Julia Grawemeyer - translator

Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner

Almir Narayamoga Surui, the Amazonian tribal chieftain of the indigenous Surui people, is a leader in the fight to save the rainforest not only for the preservation of his land and people, but for the Earth's and humanity's survival as well. Joining forces with such high-tech corporations as Apple and Google Earth, Surui has become a guardian of his people and a global activist, despite death threats and million-dollar bounties on his head. A recipient of the Global Citizen Award in 2012, Surui has calculated the direct cost of the loss of our rainforests - "the lungs of the Earth" - in terms of the total amount of CO2 that their destruction would release into the atmosphere, and the monetary loss that this would entail, and by using this carbon deficit formula, has leased access to pharmaceutical and cosmetic companies who have joined him in the stewardship of these endangered lands, their flora, fauna, and people.

©2015 Editions Albin Michel; translation copyright 2017 by Julia Grawemeyer (P)2018 Tantor