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ACTION ALERT Fund Ecuador to Keep Oil Underground & Rainforests Standing
Environment  (tags: rainforest, Ecuador, Amazon, Europe, Funding )

Morgan
- 46 days ago - rainforestportal.org
It is time for the international community led by Europe to step up and finance large-scale Amazon rainforest preservation to protect the Earth's atmosphere, biodiversity, and life-giving ecosystems; while helping meet needs for national advancement
SIGN PETITION PLEASE: Take a Stand Against Rainforest Destruction
Environment  (tags: palmoil, rainforest, destruction, environment )

Celine
- 53 days ago - ga3.org
Today you can help stop rainforest destruction by sending each of these companies a letter. It's easy, just one click will forward a letter to all 350 companies asking them to join our campaign.
Brazil Police Arrest Loggers in Amazon Reserve
Environment  (tags: Amazon, rainforest, illegal logging, environment, destruction, habitat, nature, trees, forests, wildlife, habitatdestruction, protection )

Cher
- 130 days ago - timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Brazilian federal police said they arrested at least 40 members of an illegal logging operation in an Amazon tribal Indian reservation amid growing concern over destruction of the world's largest rain forest.
HEART OF BRAZIL
Environment  (tags: environment, nature, rainforest, brazil )

Derkovits
- 169 days ago - weirdandinteresting.blogspot.com
Sue Cunningham's wonderful pictures from the rainforest
Pledge to Save the Amazon Rainforest! Sign Petition!
Environment  (tags: Amazon, rainforest, protection, globalwarming, climate-change, environment, nature, habitat, wildlife, trees, water )

Cher
- 171 days ago - thepetitionsite.com
For many years, the amazon rainforest has just stood there. but now, we have a problem, global warming is starting to affect the amazon with its habitat, trees, plants, rain and wildlife.
Don't Chop Down That Tree!
Environment  (tags: trees, rainforest, Marriott, Amazon, conservation, environment, nature, protection, wildlife, habitat )

Cher
- 181 days ago - money.cnn.com
How Marriott will try to protect the Amazon and prevent deforestation by paying locals not to cut down trees. Preventing the destruction of rainforests should be high on the to-do list of anyone worried about global warming. Scientists say burning or
Save the Sumatran Rainforest
Environment  (tags: environment, destruction, rainforest, Sumatra, conservation, trees, protection, nature, wildlife, ecosystems, habitatdestruction )

Cher
- 185 days ago - rspb.org.uk
Tropical rainforests are phenomenally rich in wildlife; home to almost three-quarters of the world's known land-based plants and animals. Harapan Rainforest is no exception. This rainforest is part of the Sumatran lowland forest, the richest in plantlife
Rainforest Protection Issues: FSC Failing the World's Forests
Environment  (tags: FSC, EI, Ecological Internet, FSC-certified paper, rainforest, ancient forests, nature, environment, trees, humans, wildlife, world, protection, habitat, conservation, ecosystems )

Terrah
- 193 days ago - rainforestportal.org
Mongabay reports that the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is coming under increasingly harsh criticism [ark]. Ecological Internet (EI) and many others believe FSC is imploding as claims of environmental and social benefits of ancient forest logging...
Amazon Environmentalist Gunned Down in Peru
Environment  (tags: amazon, rainforest, murder, deforestation, peru )

Rhett
- 204 days ago - news.mongabay.com
After reporting a truck loaded with mahogany illegally logged from the Amazon rainforest, Don Julio Garcia Agapito, a Peruvian authority who worked to protect forests, was gunned down by Amancion Jacinto Maque, an illegal timber operator, on February 26th
Contribute To Habitat Preservation
Environment  (tags: ancient, complex, Habitat, Preservation, rainforest, donate, shop, store, gift, ecosystems, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay conservation, ecosystems, endangered, nature, wildlife, animals, world, GoodNews, environment, forests, animaladvocates, protection, animal )

Mari
- 213 days ago - shop.therainforestsite.com
Since The Rainforest Site began in 2000, together we have funded the protection and preservation of more than 41,000 acres of rainforest habitat. Your daily click and your Rainforest Site store purchases, combined with those of many others
How Much Would It Cost to End Amazon Deforestation?
Environment  (tags: amazon, rainforest, destruction, REDD, CO2emissions, destruction, endangered, government, protection, habitatdestruction, habitat, extinction, ecosystems, conservation, forests, ethics, suffering, Sustainabililty, trees, pollution, climate-change, globalwarmi )

Thunderr
- 252 days ago - news.mongabay.com
With Brazil last week announcing a significant jump in Amazon deforestation during the second half of 2007,the question emerges,how much would it cost to end the destruction of Earth's largest rainforest?Reducing deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon to
Amazon Rainforest Vanishing Faster, Brazil Drafts Emergency Plan
Environment  (tags: destruction, conservation, environment, deforestation, protection, rainforest, Amazon Rainforest )

Gavin
- 253 days ago - ecoworldly.com
Despite world-wide attention, the Amazon rainforest is disappearing faster and faster. In the wake of the report, Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, called an emergency meeting to formulate a plan for saving what's left.
Rainforest Protection Issues: Murder in Malaysia's Rainforest
Environment  (tags: rainforest, logging, trees, indigenous, corporate, murder )


- 273 days ago - rainforestportal.org
...we note the making of another rainforest martyr -- this time in Malaysia's rainforests -- as missing Penan indigenous leader Kelesau Naan, headman of the Penan settlement of Long Kerong in the Upper Baram region of Sarawak, was found dead.
Brazil Says Amazon Deforestation Is Down - Sao Paulo, Brazil
Environment  (tags: ecosystems, environment, habitatdestruction, rainforest, endangered, forests, humans, trees, scientists )

Thunderr
- 303 days ago - my.earthlink.net
Brazil announced a sharp drop in the rate of Amazon deforestation but environmentalists warned it could be a short-term trend masking the broader threat against the rainforest.Sprawling over 1.6 million square miles, the Amazon covers nearly 60 percent of
Largest Debt-for-Nature Swap Ever Yields $26M for Costa Rica's Forests
Environment  (tags: costa rica, conservation, science, debt-for-nature, debt, government, trade, the nature conservancy, nature conservancy, environment, green, earth, rainforest, rainforests, forest, forests, tropical forest, tropical forests, trees, animals, wildlife )

Jonathon
- 355 days ago - nature.org
The Nature Conservancy has brokered the largest debt-for-nature swap in history -- $12.6 million in debt will be forgiven and $26 million will be provided to finance tropical forest conservation in Costa Rica over the next 16 years.
 

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