Brazil's Amazon forest now in Street ViewMost people don't ever get the chance to float down the Amazon River or walk through the surrounding forest and visit local communities. And for those who do, many parts of the area can't be visited because they are under the Brazilian government's protection with restricted public access.Now, Google is making it possible for armchair explorers to experience the Amazon through its Google Maps' Street View feature. The Web giant announced on World Forest Day, that all of the images it has collected over the past several months of the Amazon's Rio Negro Reserve are now available. "Take a virtual boat ride down the main section of the Rio Negro, and float up into the smaller tributaries where the forest is flooded," project lead for Google Street View in the Amazon Karin Tuxen-Bettman wrote in a statement. "Stroll along the paths of Tumbira, the largest community in the Reserve... Enjoy a hike through along an Amazon forest trail and see where Brazil nuts are harvested." The project got started a year ago when the Amazonas Sustainable Foundation partnered with Google and invited the tech company to visit the area. A handful of the company's employees traveled to the Amazon basin and began collecting ground-level images of the rivers, forest, and communities in the Rio Negro Reserve. More >> |
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