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Or, we transform this crisis into an opportunity to empower indigenous people, to support indigenous people and to save the rainforest and their cultures.
We take care of about 200,000 hectares of rainforest.
You would travel east of Manaus and you would see the blatant rainforest destruction.
So we had our own miniature rainforest, a private beach with a coral reef.
Nineteen million hectares of rainforest are lost every year to create new arable land.
It's a bit like going and cataloging a piece of the rainforest.
We found a global atmospheric watchtower there in the middle of the rainforest, and hung hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of scientific equipment off this tower, to look for isoprene and other things while we were there.
This is the tower in the middle of the rainforest from above, and the tower from below.
They dropped from the air 8 x 10 glossy photographs of themselves in what we would say to be friendly gestures, forgetting that these people of the rainforest had never seen anything two-dimensional in their lives.
CA: So there's many other species that you're dreaming of de-extincting at some point, but I think what I'd actually like to move on to is this idea you talked about how mammoths might help green Siberia in a sense, or at least, I'm not talking about tropical rainforest, but this question of greening the planet you've thought about a lot.
Possibly what we're doing is trading off the magnificence of the rainforest and all that diversity for, I don't know, green pond scum or grass or something like that.
It may be the next rainforest, in terms of pharmaceuticals.
So I said, "Well, you've got to make a rainforest ice cream.
The difference with Ecosia though is that, in Ecosia's case, it draws the revenues in the same way, but it allocates 80 percent of those revenues to a rainforest protection project in the Amazon.
And what happened then was the sponsor gave revenues to Ecosia, and Ecosia is giving 80 percent of those revenues to a rainforest protection project.
Another cliché is that as the white men come and development and progress disturbs the native's way of living as well as destroy the rainforest.
The preservation of the rainforest can easily be identified as the overriding and most obvious theme portrayed in this movie.
The concern for maintaining the rainforest is demonstrated through the presumed wisdom we are called to see in the American Indian elders, however; Bill Markham is blind to this wisdom until the end of the movie.
Also, the movie goes on to assert that 5,000 acres of Amazonian rainforest is disappearing every day.
A construction designer working in the Amazon is visiting a logging site with his family when his seven-year-old son Tommy is kidnapped by native tribesmen and vanishes into the rainforest.
It brings you deep into the amazon rainforest as you learn about the life of 'the invisible people' tribesmen and their conflict with another terryfing tribe.
Francis of the ForestWASHINGTON, DC – When Pope Francis visited Latin America in July, he made an impassioned plea for the protection of the Amazon rainforest and the people who live there.
Five hundred years ago, the Atlantic rainforest stretched nearly the entirety of Brazil’s 8,500-kilometer coastline; today, less than 7% remains.
With their rehabilitation, Brazil could expand agricultural production without further harm to the rainforest.
In this and other ways, the rainforest could be harnessed to finance development and generate growth in a socially inclusive and sustainable way.
Despite a global pledge to reduce significantly the loss of biological diversity by 2010, huge areas of rainforest and oceans continue to be destroyed.
The nature of such fuel accumulations runs the gamut, including swamp drainage in Indonesia, rainforest destruction in Amazonia, self-thickening woods in American wildlands as a result of fire exclusion, and everywhere the intrusion of urban sprawl and fire-prone houses.
For starters, he wants to reduce or eliminate environmental protections in the Amazon, the world’s largest tropical rainforest.
As the government hands more power over the rainforest to large business owners, ordinary citizens – including smallholder farmers and poor urban dwellers – are bound to suffer.
But Brazil’s ecosystems matter for more than just that country – it is the guardian of the planet’s largest tropical rainforest, a repository of ecological services for the entire world, where most of the Earth’s biodiversity is concentrated.
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