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amazon sold online - to protect it
how do u save the amazon rainforest?easy.all u need is a bit of cash and a computer.then go to the site of
cool earth and with a click of mouse,u can add to the cart half an acre of endangered rain forest for just $70.cool earth claims this will keep locked up 130tonnes of carbondioxide and protect 400 more unique species. so far the site says,more than 31,000acres have been saved.< br/> one of cool earth''s supporters is john eliash,the swedish born bussinessman chosen by british primeminister gordon brown to be his forest advisior
,with the task of looking at mechanisms that stimulate ''deforestation avoidance''.
besides selling the odd half acre on the website.mr.eliash says he is persuading fellow millionaires to follow his example by buying chunks of rainforest.
but this really the best way to save forests?brazilians,especially the military has been touchy about foriegn desigens on amazon.the news of buying lands by foreigners has infuriated amazonians.in manaus,the capital of amazonas state,one director of ngo says;john eliash is not welcomed here.
the problem is that it is making a implication that brazilians are not capable of saving the rain forest from destruction and ignoring the original inhabitants of brazil.they say the best way to protect forests to save the indeginious reserves which are held at bay so far.many environmental organisations are making effort to stop deforestation.organisations put forth a plan to reduce deforestation to zero by 2015.an area the size of france-almost a fifth of brazils amazon region-has been deforested,mostly in the last 40 years.deforestation would reduce green house gases that make brazil one of the top 5 polluters in the world.
rainfall in major agricultural parts of brazil is influenced by rainforest.almost 20 percent of amazon''s rainforest is cleared and scientists belive that 40 percent is the tipping point.the race against time to find ways of stopping deforestation has begun. the vital connection is to be made clear -with discreet but vital support from the uk government-in a report called the econimies of climate change.it will be sort of brazillian version of stern report''says and informed insider.the key player in this program is the brazil government and the problem is that it speaks with many voices.the people want the government financies to to move to environmental services rather than for destructive purposes.a plan that is supported by three of the nine state governers of the amazon region.
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