Adopt-A-Rainforestis
a great program for individuals or organizations such as school groups
to get involved in
o contributing funds to support sustainable management
in tropical countries
o great way to educate and spread awareness to the community
about Rainforest destruction
o material for teachers on their website to aid them
in teaching children about why it is so important that tropical rainforests
are protected
Sustainable Agriculture“to
protect ecosystems and the people and wildlife that live within them by
developing and implementing best management practices and standards for
commodity crops, providing incentives to farmers to meet those standards”
(Rainforest Alliance)
o accomplished by farmers, companies, cooperatives, and
landowners
o integrate their workers and communities with the productive
agriculture and conservation
o reduce environmental impacts and an increase in social
benefits
o important because “agriculture is the principle agent
of ecosystem destruction and species loss” (Rainforest Alliance)
o production of bananas, sugar and coffee is hurting
the environment because the tropical ecosystems are being replaced with
sterile monocultures
Neotropics covers
Latin American issues having to do with conservation
o journalists thereby become trained in environmental
reporting
o keeps people up to date with what is going on and provides
the community with the latest environmental controversies and success stories
o acts as a channel for the activists in the area to
learn more about the efforts being made
o published bi-monthly as a bi-lingual newsletter called
the Eco-Exchange
SmartWood “is
the first forest certification program in the world, it certifies well-managed
natural and plantation forests in tropical, temperate and boreal forest
regions” (Rainforest-Alliance)
o way of certifying that forest land will be managed
in a sustainable fashion
SmartVoyagerprogram
endorses “operators who care about the environment, wildlife conservation,
tourist safety and the well-being of workers and local communities” (Rainforest-Alliance)
o manage tour boats in the Galapagos Islands
For more information on this visit www.rainforest-alliance.org
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