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Eliza Ward

Ecotourism- The most valuable use of rainforest - 2 views

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  • ecotourism hugely outweighs the carbon emissions from air, boat and bus travel
  • Ever since the word ecotourism was coined in the 1980s, it's been touted as the best way for tourists to see fragile, pristine or protected places with minimal environmental impact.
  • 'The good news is that ecotourism lodges make money, which locals use to buy up more land to build their businesses, thereby further protecting pristine rainforest
  • Eliza Ward on 04 Jun 12
     
    This article gives examples and facts explaining that Eco-Tourism is the most valuable way to use the rainforest benefiting people (tourist) and the environment
Matt Preece

BBC News - Brazil considers relaxing code protecting the Amazon - 0 views

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  • be strengthened, not weakened. Robin Lustig reports from the Amazon.
  • Within the next few months, the Brazilian government is going to have to decide whether to approve proposals to relax the Forest Code, which is designed to protect the Amazon rainforest. Farmers and agricultural businesses want to be allowed to cultivate more of their land, but environmentalists say the code should
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  • Brazil considers relaxing code protecting the
  • Matt Preece on 24 May 12
     
    Video of the Brazilian government and deforestation
Eliza Ward

Ecotourism - Helping the Rain forest be safe - 0 views

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  • The money from the tourists can help sustain many local people in conservation-oriented work. The local people further protect the environment because their livelihood now so closely depends on the health of the ecosystem.
  • Guides are well trained and learn a lifestyle that is good for the environment and they pass these ideals on to their children, friends, and neighbors.
Ness T

Benefits - 0 views

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  • natural attractions
  • advancing social, economic, and environmental objectives in developing countrie
  • ew opportunities for small-enterprise investment and employment
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  • protecting their biological resources.
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  • enterprise with potential positive contributions to the conservation of endangered biological resources.
  • raising appreciation for biological resources
  • Ecotourism enterprises tour agencies and guide services, lodges and private reserves as well as such satellite activities as crafts industries and transportation and food services, also generate revenues and foreign exchange
  • Governments
  • income in operating and protecting natural habitats.
  • raising local awareness about the value of biological resources, increasing local participation in the benefits of biodiversity conservation
  • better conservation practices by developing country populations
  • Ness T on 05 Jun 12
     
    This source tells the different benefits of Eco-Tourism and also included is a little bit of history and also some facts, examples.
mikitsujiyama

Sky Rainforest Rescue - 0 views

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  • environmental importance of the world’s vast tropical rainforests is well known – both
  • Home » What we do » Safeguarding the natural world » Forests » Forests where we work » Amazon » Sky Rainforest Rescue Sky Rainforest Rescue Help WWF and Sky save a billion trees in the Amazon WWF has joined forces with Sky for an exciting campaign to help protect part of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. Our target is to safeguard a billion trees, covering an area about the size of Belgium. Why we’re involved T
  • in terms of species diversity and for regulating the global climate.  Rainforests are also a crucial source of lots of products we use and benefit from every day, including cocoa, nuts, fruit, timber and many medicines. But deforestation from activities like illegal logging, clearance for cattle ranching and development of roads threatens the Amazon. Today an area the size of three football pitches is destroyed every minute. Sky Rainforest Rescue is based in the state of Acre in western Brazil where we are pioneering a new initiative by working with local communities – including rubber tappers and farmers – to help make it more profitable to keep trees standing than to clear forest.
Aylie Fucella

People of the Amazon | Greenpeace International - 0 views

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  • The Brazilian Amazon alone is home to 20 million people including 400 different indigenous groups and the future of the Amazon depends on the future of those that call the forest home.
  • It provides almost everything from food and shelter to tools and medicines, as well as playing a crucial role in people's spiritual and cultural life.
  • As logging companies move in, indigenous people are losing their traditional territory. Some indigenous people, such as the Deni living in a remote area of Brazil's Amazonas state, are working not only to protect their culture, but the forest and the diversity of life upon which they depend.
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  • use 32 plant species in the construction of hunting equipment alone. Each plant has a specific role according to its physical and chemical properties.
  • Manaus is the commercial centre of the Amazon region with a population of almost two million.
  • Aylie Fucella on 05 Jun 12
     
    looks cool ANGUS
Eliza Ward

Ecotourism - Benefits communities aswell as the Rain forest - 2 views

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  • makes a real difference to the quality of life for local people
  • Eliza Ward on 04 Jun 12
     
    There are many articles about how Eco Tourism benefits the rainforest and this is some information on how it ALSO benefits communities that live in it or around it.
Eliza Ward

Ecotourism - The Eco tourism Game - 1 views

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  • It has been called a way to save the rainforest
  • Ecotourism has also become popular among people interested in both environmental conservation and sustainable development
Ness T

What Are the Benefits of Ecotourism for Local Communities? | National Geographic - 0 views

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  • Conservation
  • locals find work as tour guides and discover that their jobs depend on local conservation efforts
  • communities may work harder to protect those resource
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  • natural resources as sources of tourist income
  • Craftspeople, innkeepers and restaurateurs all provide services
  • seeks to maintain it
  • creation of several national parks and reserves
  • funds to maintain their parks and keep hunters, poachers and loggers out of them.
  • Government Funding
  • range of local businesses benefit
  • ecotourism has boosted an economy, people stop cutting trees because they are simply too busy.
  • people with more education were less likely to be environmentally destructive. In
  • Ecotourists meeting people who live more closely with nature may learn to live more simply themselves
  • bility to pursue more education of their own,
  • better understanding of world issues
  • cultural exchange
  • Ness T on 05 Jun 12
     
    very detailed site on the the benefits of ecotourism (many point of views; conservation, government funding, local business, cultural exchange)
Taikan Ueoka

AMAZON WATCH » Is Brazil Destroying The Amazon For Energy? - 0 views

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  • Brazil's first woman president, Dilma Rousseff wants to eliminate more than 86,000 hectares of protected areas in the Amazon
  • The immediate reason? To make way for at least two large hydroelectric dams being worked out on paper, including the Tapajos project – an 8,000 megawatt power station the government would like to see built on the border of Para and Amazonas states.
  • The (Brazilian) President is backtracking on Brazil's environmental commitments, and will use any means necessary to push through an agenda of expensive mega-infrastructure projects in the Amazon
  • Taikan Ueoka on 05 Jun 12
     
    The perspective of the presidents
Aries Wangbunyen

How to Save Tropical Rainforests - Introduction - 0 views

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WWF Aries

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  • Five Basic Steps to Saving Rainforests "TREES" is a concept originally devised for an elementary school audience but serves well as set of principles for saving rainforests and, on a broader scale, ecosystems around the world. Teach others about the importance of the environment and how they can help save rainforests. Restore damaged ecosystems by planting trees on land where forests have been cut down. Encourage people to live in a way that doesn't hurt the environment. Establish parks to protect rainforests and wildlife. Support companies that operate in ways that minimize damage to the environment.
Aries Wangbunyen

Why are rainforests important? - 0 views

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WWF Aries

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  • Rainforest in Honduras WHY ARE RAINFORESTS IMPORTANT? Flying over the heart of the Amazon is like flying over an ocean of green: an expanse of trees broken only by rivers. Even more amazing than their size is the role the Amazon and other rainforests around the world play in our everyday lives. While rainforests may seem like a distant concern, these ecosystems are critically important for our well-being.
  • Rainforests are often called the lungs of the planet for their role in absorbing carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, and producing oxygen, upon which all animals depend for survival. Rainforests also stabilize climate, house incredible amounts of plants and wildlife, and produce nourishing rainfall all around the planet. Rainforests: help stabilize the world’s climate; provide a home to many plants and animals; maintain the water cycle protect against flood, drought, and erosion; are a source for medicines and foods; support tribal people; and are an interesting place to visit
Tulsi Jipp

Earth's environment getting worse, not better, says WWF ahead of Rio+20 | Environment |... - 0 views

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  • Most alarming, says the report, is that many of these changes have accelerated in the past decade, despite the plethora of international conventions signed since the initial Rio Summit in 1992.
  • Climate-warming carbon emissions have increased 40% in the past 20 years, but two-thirds of that rise occurred in the past decade.
  • Wealthy countries have seen some improvement, with the Living Planet biodiversity index, rising 7% since 1970, as nature reserves and protections were introduced. But the biodiversity index has dropped by 60% in developing countries, where people depend more on nature.
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  • "The Living Planet report shows that the biggest single drop in the living planet index is for freshwater species in tropical areas, which have shown a decline of 70% since 1970," said David Tickner, head of freshwater at WWF-UK.
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