Save the rainforest!

Willie Smits restores a rainforest

Exports, however, are minimal compared to what actually lies in Amazonian soil.

Within a year, Rainforest Crunch was on the shelves.

163 different populations, represented by 56 indigenous organizations in the 9 Amazonian states of Brazil

It may be the next rainforest, in terms of pharmaceuticals.

I like to think of bathrooms like a tropical rainforest.

81. RainForest ReGeneration Institute, Washington D.C., United States of America

This is the tower in the middle of the rainforest, from above.

This is the tower in the middle of the rainforest, from above.

So I said, Well, you've got to make a rainforest ice cream.

It's a bit like going and cataloging a piece of the rainforest.

loss of rainforest and woodland, increases in domesticated land, and species exinctions.

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.

Brazil's 1988 Constitution declares its Amazonian forest, to be a national heritage area and any use would be subject to the law.

Conscious of the negative ecological impact of the hurricane on the coastal region and the inland rainforest,

You're talking about biodensities and biodiversity, again, higher than the rainforest that just springs back to life.

Several ecosystems in Brazil need to be protected, such as the Amazon rainforest and the Atlantic forest.

During a Ministerial Meeting held in Manaus, Brazil, in September 2004, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the eight Amazonian countries welcomed this programme.

At the same meeting, statements were made by the representatives of the following intergovernmental organizations the Amazonian Cooperation Treaty Organization and the Montreal Process.

Jodi Lomask, and her wonderful troupe Capacitor, joined me in the canopy in my rainforest site in Costa Rica.

The Large Scale Biosphere Atmosphere Experiment in Amazonia is an international project to expand understanding of the climatological, ecological, biogeochemical and hydrological functions of the Amazonian region.

The Eastern Hemlock forest is being considered in some ways the last fragments of primeval rainforest east of the Mississippi River.

And swat us away like flies, the way we swat away flies when we go into the rainforest and start logging it.

Many rainforest countries have united in recent years to suggest the establishment of a rainforest conservation fund by the rich countries, to pay impoverished small farmers a small amount of money to preserve the forest. A well designed fund would slow or stop deforestation, preserve biodiversity, and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide the burning of cleared forests.

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.

Education opens the door to self expression in Spanish, the country apos s official language, for those whose mother tongue is Quechua, Aymara or one of the indigeneous languages of the Amazonian jungle.

In Indonesia, the fires covered more than 1 million hectares of rainforest, producing a thick, smoky haze that blanketed much of south east Asia for several months.

Or for that matter, if you look at the genetic level, 60 percent of medicines were prospected, were found first as molecules in a rainforest or a reef.

Meanwhile, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees continued to help repatriate Rwandan refugees from the rainforest of the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Or for that matter, if you look at the genetic level, 60 percent of medicines were prospected, were found first as molecules in a rainforest or a reef.

And by linking these together, we could have 90 percent of the site as a rainforest, instead of only 10 percent of scrubby trees and bits of road around buildings.

In January 2005, her Government had established a national institute for the development of Andean, Amazonian and Afro Peruvian peoples, which directed national policies on indigenous peoples and coordinated implementation of programmes relating to their rights and development.

The oil industry is seen as the biggest destroyer of Ecuador apos s 13 million hectares of rainforest inhabited by eight groups of indigenous people (Texaco had 330 wells in Ecuador.

In Brazil, young girls from outback mining communities, around 15 or 16 years old, are imported like chattel after being lured from isolated areas by traffickers promising them employment in the canteens and restaurants of the Amazonian mining towns.

The Indians had been gradually driven from the fertile lands along the Pacific coast towards the central highlands and finally to the rainforest in the east, which was ill suited to agriculture.

And what these images are you'll see them at the start of the slide show there's only about four images but it's of a little bear that lives in the Great Bear Rainforest.

Redwood rainforest is incredibly difficult to move through, and even today, individual trees are being discovered that have never been seen before, including, in the summer of 2006, Hyperion, the world's tallest tree.

By piecing together a complex ecological puzzle, biologist Willie Smits has found a way to re grow clearcut rainforest in Borneo, saving local orangutans and creating a thrilling blueprint for restoring fragile ecosystems.

The 8,000 acre park, which spreads over three islands, protects the only mixed species paleotropical rainforest in the United States and includes 1,000 acres of the finest coral reef in the Territory.25

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.

My country, Bolivia, which is striving to consolidate its democracy, belongs to four parliamentary groupings within the Inter Parliamentary Union the Latin American Parliament, the Andean Parliament, the Amazonian Parliament and the Indigenous Parliament. This demonstrates our democratic, multicultural and multi ethnic tradition.

A unique ecosystem of plants, birds and monkeys thrives in the treetops of the rainforest. Nalini Nadkarni explores these canopy worlds and shares her findings with the world below, through dance, art and bold partnerships.

At its thirteenth session, an indigenous representative told the Working Group about the national parliament apos s approval of a contract with a logging company for an area of over 1 million hectares of rainforest.