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At the
Gaia Way we have a deep concern for the health of the
tropical rainforests. Here is a list of
related links.
International
Society of Tropical Foresters:
ISTF is a nonprofit
organization formed in the 1950s in Washington, D.C., by
tropical forester, Tom Gill. ISTF is committed to the
protection, wise management and rational use of the
world’s tropical forests by providing a communications
network for tropical forestry disciplines.
 Rainforest
Action Network: Rainforest Action Network (RAN)
works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the
rights of their inhabitants through education,
grassroots organizing, and nonviolent direct action. Founded
in 1985, RAN is a non-profit, member-based organization.
RAN accomplishes its mission through dynamic,
hard-hitting campaigns that work to bring corporate and
governmental policies into alignment with popular
support for rainforest conservation. RAN works in
alliance with environmental and human rights groups
around the world, including indigenous forest
communities and non-governmental organizations in rain
forest countries.
Tropical
DataBase: Discussions included methods and tools
used to carry out a diagnosis of priority areas of
tropical rain forests and
identify the main biogeographic subregions and their
conservation problems.
Biotic
Inventory of Bahia: The goal of this research
project is to catalogue the tropical plants, ants and social wasps
as major constituents of this ecosystem, and to make the
data available for ongoing conservation efforts in the
Mata Atlantica, one of the two most endangered
ecosystems of the world.
Biological
Checklist: This collaboration includes a program to
collect tropical plants in the area's different vegetation types,
quantitative inventory of specific tropical forest sites,
education of local students, increasing public awareness
of the impact of deforestation, and infrastructure
support.
Rainforest
destruction: 30 slides with facts about rainforest
destruction in Brazil. Includes rainforest pictures.
Care2:
a site where you can donate to tropical rainforest activities.
National
Geographic Brazil Atlantic Rainforest: Flash
presentation of flora, fauna, and animals in the
Atlantic Rainforest. Lots of rainforest pictures.
 Wildlife
Conservation Society: The
Wildlife Conservation Society saves wildlife and wild
lands through careful science, international
conservation, education, and the management of the
world’s largest system of urban wildlife parks. These
activities change attitudes toward nature and help
people imagine wildlife and humans living in sustainable
interaction on both a local and a global scale. WCS is
committed to this work because we believe it essential
to the integrity of life on Earth.
Mongabay.com:
Concerned with rainforests worldwide.
Rainforest
Preservation Foundation: The
Rainforest Preservation Foundation was formed in 1991 to
stop the devastation. With
the help of friends in the US and Brazil and the support
of the Governor of the state of Para, Brazil, leading
environmentalists, ecologists, forestry engineers and
agricultural people banded together and created a
four-point plan to minimize destruction:
(1) to buy
and preserve pristine tropical rain forest,
(2) To educate Brazilians on better farming
methods and how to live in the rainforest by gathering
and not destroying it
, (3)
To reclaim devastated land by reforestation and
rotational farming, and (4)
To reforest reclaimed lands, or lands that have
been recently harvested using methods so as not to
create a monoculture and to encourage the animals and
birds to return.
The Foundation has been successful, in less than 15
years, in
placing over 8 million acres into trust and training
numerous village people the proper farming and
harvesting methods.
Alaska
Rainforest Campaign: a coalition of national
and Alaska conservation groups that work to protect the
remaining wildlands of the Tongass and Chugach National
Forests from clearcutting and other harmful development.
Enchanted
Learning: Rainforest education for kids of all ages.
Lots of rainforest pictures.
WWF
Conservation: Working internationally, regionally,
and locally with a wide range of partners, WWF's Forests
For Life program combines on-the-ground fieldwork and
coordination at governing levels to develop policy and
influence market behavior to help ensure a sustainable
future for forests.
USAID:
The Sustainable Forest Products Global Alliance is a
public/private partnership that seeks to make markets
work for forests and people. Together, the partners in
the Global Alliance work to advance a new model for
forest conservation and community development in USAID-client
countries in which sustainable forest management is
rewarded in the global marketplace. By reducing trade in
illegally harvested or unsustainably managed forest
products, opportunities for resource-dependent
communities and low-income producers will grow.
Articles
Brazil's
landscape going from rainforest to soybean fields.
Seattle Times, 12/26/2003.
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