Almir Narayamoga Surui receives U.N. Forest Hero Award from juror Daniel Shaw of the International Union for Conservation of Nature at a ceremony in Istanbul. (U.N. Photo/Metehan Kurt)
Indigenous activist fights to save his tribe and the Amazon rainforest
April 18, 2013 — Almir Narayamoga Surui was born into an indigenous Amazonian tribe — the Paiter-Surui — in Rondonia in northwest Brazil at a time when his people had…
