Just in case you needed any more encouragement to buy rainforest in order to protect it: Buy Rainforest.
Showing posts with label Rainforests. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rainforests. Show all posts
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Thursday, June 24, 2010
Some time ago I posted a list of organisations that assist in buying rainforest for those conservation-minded people who want to save the rainforest. Yesterday I updated the list and added many elements to the rainforest page.Buy rainforest to protect it; this is by far the most effective way of preventing rainforest destruction and instigating reforestation - Save The Rainforest
The page also contains information on why we should save the rainforest, including high biodiversity, potential for discovering medicinal plants and carbon sequestering.
There are also some photographs of rainforest plants and insects that I have taken in rainforests in Thailand.
The page also contains information on why we should save the rainforest, including high biodiversity, potential for discovering medicinal plants and carbon sequestering.
There are also some photographs of rainforest plants and insects that I have taken in rainforests in Thailand.
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
I have been saying for a long time that one of the best ways to save rainforests is sinply to buy it where possible. The RSPB in conjunction with Birdlife International and Burung Indonesia has a project in operation which protects and restores rainforest in Sumatra. This is a project well worth supporting.
Apart from protecting rainforest for its innate value it is home to an enormous number of species; there is more biodiversity in a lowland rainforest than almost anywhere else.
Rainforest has a huge part to play in combating climate change too. Locked in all the plant material is a lot of carbon that if burned would create carbon dioxide, the most famous greenhouse gas. Not only that, but when rainforest is cut down the soils dry out releasing vast amounts of methane - a gas which has a greenhouse effect about 14 times that of carbon dioxide. Protecting rainforest stops this from happening.
Apart from protecting rainforest for its innate value it is home to an enormous number of species; there is more biodiversity in a lowland rainforest than almost anywhere else.
Rainforest has a huge part to play in combating climate change too. Locked in all the plant material is a lot of carbon that if burned would create carbon dioxide, the most famous greenhouse gas. Not only that, but when rainforest is cut down the soils dry out releasing vast amounts of methane - a gas which has a greenhouse effect about 14 times that of carbon dioxide. Protecting rainforest stops this from happening.
Monday, February 5, 2007
It sounds nice doesn't it? Owning your own piece of rainforest, so that it can never be cut down sounds like a wonderful prospect. Shame you can't have it in your own back garden though. However, it is possible to protect a piece of rainforest, to conserve the species within it ,by supporting one of a number of charities that have negotiated deals with governments and local people in order to protect rainforest either through purchase or management partnerships.
Here are a few websites where rainforest can be protected by donations.
Nature Products Network
Rainforest Concern
World Land Trust
Rainforest Heroes
Fundesin
Friends of Calakmul
I was quite surprised how cheaply a hectare of rainforest can be protected for. It makes me wonder if the vast sums that are spent on some poorly conceived conservation projects in developed countries would be better used to fund projects such as these.
Here are a few websites where rainforest can be protected by donations.
Nature Products Network
Rainforest Concern
World Land Trust
Rainforest Heroes
Fundesin
Friends of Calakmul
I was quite surprised how cheaply a hectare of rainforest can be protected for. It makes me wonder if the vast sums that are spent on some poorly conceived conservation projects in developed countries would be better used to fund projects such as these.
