| What Can You Do to Protect the
Rainforest? |
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| The
Destruction of the Amazon Rainforest: |
| The rainforest is
currently being destroyed for reasons of breeding
animals for fast food restaurants, gold mining
for jewelry, a hydroelectric power station to get
more electricity, to get wood for buildings, and
generally to get money. The Rainforest once
covered 14% of the world, but a lot of rainforest
has been destroyed already. Now the rainforest
covers only 6% of Earth. |
| Efforts
to Conserve The Amazon Rainforest: |
| Right
now, many efforts are being made to protect the
rainforest. You can buy rainforest from Fundesin.
For $25 dollars you get one acre of rainforest
that can't be destroyed by the people deforesting
it. For more information on that program, click
on the Fundesin link below. Fundesin is also
providing chocolate to sell to support other
rainforest conservation programs.The Rainforest
Facts link will bring you to a site that has tons
of information about the rainforests resources
and what is happening to the Amazon. One way we
can try to protect the rainforest is by educating
people about it to get them to help conserve it.
You can e-mail almost all of these sites for more
information. |
| Links
to Organizations: |
| RAINFOREST
CONSERVATION / FUNEDESIN, Foundation for
Integrated Education and Development - Ecuador,
South America |
| Rainforest
Facts DON
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