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Our Rainforests disappear at an average rate of - a football field every second
- 75 acres every minute
- 100000 acres a day
- 39 million acres every year. an area lager than the state of Michigan

O Only 6% of the earth,'s land area is rainforest yet 80% or all surface vegetation is in the rainforest

O 50% of the earth's oxygen is generated by rainforest.

O 50% to 90% of ALL LIFE forms exist in the rainforest.

O 50% of ALL pharmaceuticals originated as plants, 25% of medicines still use plant extracts, yet less than 1% of rainforest plants have been screened for medical use.

O 70% of current medicines believed to have cancer fighting properties are from the rainforest Continued deforestation may destroy the cure for AIDS or cancer - before they can be discovered

O We are losing an estimated 270 species a day to extinction - the fastest rate since the ice age 'The rainforest is a fountain of un-researched products and we are destroying it at an alarming rate ' E O Watson, Pulitzer-prize Biologist

O Estimates of the number of rainforest species yet to be identified are as high as 100 MILL ON

O 17-20% of the carbon dioxide introduced into the earth's atmosphere, about 2 and 1/2 Billion tons annually, comes directly from the burning of rainforest From space NASA recorded 180,000 forest fires in 6 weeks from just one Brazilian state.

O The "slash and bum" method of farming eventually eliminates the possibility of regeneration of vegetation by destroying seeds.

O Worldwide. 200 million people live in rainforest; yet food, soil and water degradation from deforestation disrupts one billion lives.

O On average eight Indian tribes become extinct yearly because of rainforest destruction

With the cooperation of the Brazilian environmental groups and governmental agencies,

Rainforest Preservation Foundation
purchases acreage from the individual land owners in the Amazon rainforest.
The land is placed in a perpetual trust:never to be sold or destroyed.

Under Brazilian law,
Fundacao da Preservacao da Floresta da Amazonia
Has the power of a public utility with the right of eminent domain.

In the United States
Rainforest Preservation Foundation
is a federally registered 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization, and a non-profit Texas corporation, charter #01211707

Rainforest Preservation Foundation
Is working to prevent or lessen destruction with projects to:

o Teach farm methods that omit "slash and burn"

o Provide an agroforestry school housing for homeless children who will replant trees on degraded land.

o Fund a laboratory project, Rainforest Institute to Study Bio diversity of Amazons (RIBA) to gather, study, and grow medicinal plants.

o Provide and or develop alternative employment

o Create outlets for renewable products.

o Recover logging and production wastes for new products.

o Educate about sustainable logging

o Encourage controlled eco-tourism
 
You can help.
 
 
For $25.00 you can preserve an acre of the Rainforest!
 
 
Call Today 1-800-rainforest