Google Earth Voyager shows you your connection to the Amazon rainforest

For many of us the A mazonia is a distant and unknown land full of wild jungles, majestic rivers and indigenous tribes. We know the largest jungle in the world through movies and we can imagine it when we read adventure books, however, the Google Earth Voyager platform aims to show us that we all have a connection with the Amazon , either with water, our food or the weather changes we live in.

Through 11 interactive stories about different areas of the Brazilian Amazon , Voyager travels through the home of more than 27 million people, as well as a wide variety of cultures.The villages that live in the jungle are the protagonists of these stories, which have been produced by the renowned Brazilian film director Fernando Meirelles.

But this platform is much more than a narration. It combines videos, maps, audios and virtual reality (VR) of 360º, which give shape to a true immersion experience addressing the future of the jungle and, therefore, of the planet, as Google has explained through a statement.

voyager takes you to the heart of the Amazon

This website also shows us the complexity of the region, the lung of the planet; because there produces 20% of the Earth's oxygen and they inhabit one in ten animal species. Thus, we can learn about the production chain of Brazilian nuts or the transformation of local economies than before depended on illegal logging.

Thanks to Google's collaboration with the Socio-Environmental Institute of Brazil, an exhaustive atlas of the indigenous lands of Brazil and its inhabitants will also be launched.These maps include interactive stories to which the communities of the Amazon put voice.

Different indigenous peoples, such as Tembe and Paiter Surui use monitoring technologies to protect their territories from deforestation and from illegal incursions by foreigners, and the Yawanawa, under the leadership of women, it has recovered its cultural heritage and has found a place in the global cosmetic industry, thanks to the sustainable harvest of achiote, a reddish seed that is used, among other products, in lipstick.

Google and the peoples of the Amazon

These and other stories are the result of ten years of collaboration between Google and the people of the Amazon. The leader of Paiter Surui, Chief Almir, discovered Google Earth in 2007 and understood that this tool It could serve to protect the heritage and traditions of his people.In this way, he proposed a Google agreement that resulted in an interactive map of the cultural heritage of Paiter Surui, the first cartographic project on forest carbon and deforestation led by an indigenous community.