Like most good ideas, this is simple and will be effective. That's why I'm supporting Cool Earth.
John Brown - magazine publisher
Save the Rainforest with Cool Earth
Why are rainforests so important?
Cool Earth is a charity that protects endangered rainforest to combat global warming, protect ecosystems and provide sustainable jobs for local people.
Working with partners throughout the Amazon, Cool Earth secures rainforest, helps protect it around the clock and ensures communities benefit from keeping the forest standing. Sponsoring an acre of rainforest with Cool Earth challenges global warming. find out more »
Rainforests under threat
Rainforests are made of living carbon - more than 260 tonnes are locked away in each acre. Destroying them releases more climate warming CO2 each year than the entire USA.
In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. That’s 100 acres cleared every minute to create short-term farmland for crops such as soya or palm oil, or for cattle ranching. find out more »
Keeping carbon where it belongs
Unless rainforest is more valuable standing than cut down, the Amazon will be cleared in 50 years. Cool Earth enables individuals and organisations to help protect rainforest and keep carbon where it belongs. find out more »
Since 2007 Cool Earth's sponsors around the world have:
- Protected thousands of acres of endangered rainforest
- Prevented millions of tonnes of CO2 emissions
- Conserved many thousands of species at risk of extinction
- Cool Earth - UK Headquaters
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Cool Earth's UK Headquarters
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Telephone 0800 093 0624
- Project: Awacachi Corridor - Ecuador
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Project: Awacachi Corridor - Ecuador
Working with local partners, Cool Earth is helping to secure this corridor of land by investing in its protection system and in local community development that values forest conservation above forest destruction.
- Project: Ashaninka - Peru
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Project: Ashaninka - Peru
The Peruvian Amazon is experiencing rapid deforestation. As you read, illegal loggers are devastating the rainforest resources of many tribal communities.
- A sea creature
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Fish: The deep sea
I'm just a simple fish, check out the projects!
Brazilian government faces criminal charges over Amazon deforestation
On the 30th September the Guardian reported that the Brazilian government faces criminal charges over Amazon deforestation.
Eliasch Review Released
A long awaited report to the UK government on how to best tackle climate
change has been released. The Eliasch Review was produced by an independent team led by Johan Eliasch, the Swedish businessman and special adviser to
Gordon Brown. The review examines how international funds could be used to make
it financially beneficial to the owners of the world's rainforests to
leave them standing, thereby reducing the devastating impact on climate change and the environment.
Cool Earth Founder Prepares Global Plan to Save Rainforests
A plan to protect the world's rainforests has been proposed in a report prepared for Gordon Brown. The plan is part of a major review of
deforestation and green energy led by Johan Eliasch, the Chairman of
HEAD - the sports equipment giant - and Director of Cool Earth Action.
Ashaninka Update from Catherine Jacob
Update from Catherine Jacob, Sky News Environment correspondent about deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon.
Transport in Ashaninka territory
Ben Cackett, Cool Earth, on what some of the Cool Earth money is being spent on.
Jaime Pena Lopez, Ashaninkan tribal leader in the village of Tinkereni
Jaime Pena Lopez is an Ashaninkan tribal leader in the village of Tinkereni in the Peruvian Amazon.
Catherine Jacob Frontline
Catherine Jacob is the Sky News Environment correspondent reporting on 3 days in the Ashaninka village of Tinkereni.
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