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Many good people share our commitment to protect tropical forests. You may find the organizations listed below useful in your search for ways to learn more about and help preserve rainforests, their biodiversity and the indigenous people who live in them.
Several of our “sister” organizations around the world support the protection of El Bosque Eterno de los Niños (BEN), the Children’s Eternal Rain Forest, through fundraising, letter campaigns, education and providing volunteers.
- Sweden: BarnensRegnskog: www.barnens-regnskog.net
- Britain: Children’s Rainforest UK: www.tropical-forests.com
- Germany: Kinderregenwald: www.kinderregenwald.de
- Japan: Nippon Kodomono Jungle: www.jungle.gr.jp
Fair Trade seed necklaces, string bags, and chocolate are offered for sale by the Kichwa people of Ecuador’s rainforest. The sale of these items brings income for local indigenous people by using their forest in a sustainable way rather than cutting, mining or drilling it.
- Kallari Krafts: www.kallari.com
Masks, baskets and carvings made by the Emberá people of the Darien forest of Panama are available by special order. Income from their art provides money for schooling, collecting their yet unwritten ancient stories, and development of a mini-eco-tourism project for conservation of their forest. Trips to the tropics, educational presentations about tropical rainforests, children’s books, and artesaneas made by indigenous people are available from MCLUS at info@mclus.org.
In Guatemala efforts to protect the Peten forest in the north of the country are being spearheaded by Vida Amor de Paz and her foundation.
- Fundacion Bosque Tropical: www.tropicalrainforest.org
Rainforest Action Network launches activist campaigns using petitions, letters and protests to call attention to the destruction of tropical forests. Their actions have changed corporate practices which result in protection instead.
- RAN: www.ran.org
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