Vasco Van Roosmalen Equipe de Conservaçao de Amazôñia

1. III Encuentro Internacional de TIC en la Cooperación el Desarrollo
III International Meeting of ICT for Development Cooperation
From Bows &
Arrows to Laptops

2. Limitaciones y capacidades:
Mission
Mision y Vision
“The mission of the Amazon
Conservation Team is to
work in partnership with
indigenous people in
conserving
biodiversity, health and
culture in tropical America
by combining traditional
knowledge with the latest
science and technology.”

4. Ethnomapping

5. Ethnomapping

24. Mapping
Suriname 1999-2010 10 million hectares
Xingu Park 2001-2004 2.7 million hectares
Tumucumaque Park 2002 4.2 million hectares
Surui 2006 & 2009 242,000 hectares
Diahui 2009 40,000 hectares
Kaxuyana 2009 1.2 million hectares
Wai Wai 2009-2010 9.6 million hectares

26. III Encuentro Internacional de TIC en la Cooperación el Desarrollo
III International Meeting of ICT for Development Cooperation

27. III Encuentro Internacional de TIC en la Cooperación el Desarrollo
III International Meeting of ICT for Development Cooperation

28. III Encuentro Internacional de TIC en la Cooperación el Desarrollo
III International Meeting of ICT for Development Cooperation

31. Next Steps
• Combine with scientific survey and diagnostic techniques.
• Use of methodologies as a basis for Ethno-zoning, REDD/PES
projects, management/protection plans, education and health
programs, etc.
• Training of others in how to implement this methodology.
• Develop additional technological tools to increase the efficiency
and reach of mapping work (Example: Google partnership).

32. Technology Partnerships
http://www.visuamundo.com http://www.rhizalabs.com/
http://earth.google.com/outreach

37. Community Use
• Load point features from a GPX-file
• Display the features in Google Earth Plug-In
• Edit the Name, Icon and Description of the
points
o Choose from 12 predefined Icons
o Use a WYSIWYG-editor to style the HTML-
CSS-balloon
• Save the information as KML

41. Visualization

42. Surui Carbon Project
Components:
• Reforestation
• REDD – “Avoided Deforestation”
If the Surui forests burned today (over 600,000 acres)
they would release the equivalent of ten years of
Chicago’s annual carbon emissions.

43. Partners for Surui Projects

44. Carbon Credit Payments, Avoided Deforestation and
REDD
Partners for Surui Projects
Partners: Metareila, Forest
Trends, Kaninde, ACT, Aguaverde, IDESAM, Google Earth
Coordination: Forest Trends
REDD: IDESAM/ECODECISIONS
Technical/Mapping: ACT and Google Earth
Reforestation: Metareila, Aguaverde, Kaninde
Partial results: Legal Framework, Governance, Technical report
Next Steps: …

45. Carbon Credit Payments, Avoided Deforestation and
REDD
Partners for Surui Projects
Partners: Metareila, Forest
Trends, Kaninde, ACT, Aguaverde, IDESAM, Google Earth
Coordination: Forest Trends
REDD: IDESAM/ECODECISIONS
Technical/Mapping: ACT and Google Earth
Reforestation: Metareila, Aguaverde, Kaninde
Partial results: Legal Framework, Governance, Technical report
Next Steps: …

47. 2020

48. 2030

49. 2040

50. 2050

51. Surui Carbon Project
Data Collection Challenges
• accuracy
• ease of use
• speed
• transparency of process/data
• accessibility of results

52. Surui Carbon Project

53. Surui Carbon Project

54. Surui Carbon Project

55. Surui Carbon Project

56. Surui Carbon Project

57. Surui Carbon Project

58. Surui Carbon Project
Google Earth, other
GIS Apps
Easy web-based tool for
composing story
Many other
common formats