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How can the Amazon develop sustainably?
In this vision of the Amazon, the forest will be preserved as a large national park with sprinklings of industry added to enrich its inhabitants. The agriculture at its edge will be more productive than it is today, making use of abandoned land and raising yields to meet domestic and foreign demand without encroaching farther into the jungle. This is aim is plausible, as well as commendable, but it will take decades to accomplish. In the meantime, the forest will continue to shrink. The fight today is over how fast that happens.
Continue reading...Mount Mabu rainforest given protection
3. July 2009
The unique lost rainforest of Mount Mabu is to be given protection from exploitation, following a new expedition to the remote area revealed a host of new species. The existence of the pristine forest in northern Mozambique was revealed by the Observer last year, and was originally discovered with the help of Google Earth. It is now thought to be the largest such forest in southern Africa.
Continue reading...Q&A: Climate Change
3. July 2009
Q&A: Climate change. What is climate change and why should we be concerned about it? David Adam explains in his Guardian news article. We don't see any mention of the benefit of saving the worlds forests and therefore the worlds largest carbon sinks in the article though.
Continue reading...Fraud using our site
29. May 2009
£1 fraudulent use of our donations mechanism. We are ware we have been the victims of fraud on our charity website. If you are affected and have seen this £1 on your credit card bill, please read on. Your money is being refunded as we speak.
Continue reading...Is Google killing the planet?
12. January 2009
We all know that the creation of electricity has an impact on the environment in what ever form it takes, so it is hardly surprising to read analysis that large, data centre loving companies like Google are having a significant…
Continue reading...Gold Mining – Rainforest Destruction in Costa Rica
6. November 2008
We recently received the following statement from The Monteverde Conservation League (the guys responsible for the Children’s Eternal Rainforest). We thought we ought to pass the message along. I don’t know what we can do to help on this one, but I’ll…
Continue reading...Bruce Parry – BBC Amazon show
16. October 2008
I was checking out Bruces Amazon rainforest blog today and thought I would blog the link to their site. It has loads of intersting facts and information, including video footage, of the deforestation occuring in the Amazon basin. Rather than plagerise their…
Continue reading...If you go down to the woods today…
27. September 2008
Kay Chornook began collecting Wolf’s stories in 1990 and was then sidetracked by her own struggle with Hodgkin’s Disease. Surviving that, she returned to the project in 1994 and, with Wolf, has persevered to ensure that this fascinating history be…
Continue reading...Alternative Energy record breaker
14. September 2008
The Greenbird project, a project initiated to attempt to break the land speed record for a wind powered vehicle, has come to an end. Uncharacteristic rainfall in the Australian desert has thwarted the attempt. This uncharacteristic rainfall could well be…
Continue reading...Pay countries to keep their forests
10. September 2008
There is an interesting article in the environmental section of the FT regarding paying countries to keep the rainforest they have, rather than selling out to logging firms. It does seem like a very viable option. The president of Guyana has…
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22. July 2009
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