"My spirit is always warning me that when the forest is all destroyed there will be strong winds, the sun will get very hot. It will be difficult  to breathe, then everybody will die. Not just Indians. I am warning you to think, you have to change your ideas. Leave the jungle alone." Chief Raoni (1989)


 Public opinion has become painfully aware of the catastrophic effects of climate change. In the past two years we have witnessed increased frequency and severity of hurricanes, storms, floods, droughts, water shortages, melting of the polar ice caps, rising of the oceans and the burning of tropical rainforests. Continued

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Oil and Water

IMMEDIATE ACTION to improve access to safe water in the Ecuadorian amazon affected by oil contamination Continued

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Do Trees Grow on Money?

Rainforests are back on the global agenda in a big way. Governments now recognise the importance of protecting tropical forests in order to avoid dangerous climate change, and there is now much debate. As governments try to thrash out the details of a new international agreement, expected to be signed at the end of 2009, they are discussing how best to include measures to save rainforests, and thereby address one of the major causes of climate change. Worldwide, forest destruction generates more greenhouse gas emissions each year than do all the trains, planes and cars on the planet. So if we are to tackle global warming, there is an urgent need to find ways to reduce the 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions caused by forest destruction each year, and to keep the remaining forests standing.

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Good News From The Field

Brazil

The Rainforest Foundation as a whole has been in action, helping indigenous people to conserve their environment and defend their rights since 1989.

Almost twenty years later our pioneer work is still appreciated