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Can you make
a difference?
You certainly can!
You now know some of the many reasons to save our precious rainforests. Your question may now be, can I make a difference? If Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Abraham Lincoln, or Albert Einstein could change history as individuals, YOU, as an individual, can equally do so! Whether locally or globally, directly or indirectly, there are many ways you can preserve the rainforests for future generations.
Take action today!
Do it for the planet! Do it for your children! Do it for yourself!
1. Write, email or call your representatives in government.
2. Make changes toward a less impactful, sustaining lifestyle.
3. Support human rights of indigenous peoples worldwide.
4. Do not buy products that cause destruction of the rainforests.
5. Donate to organizations that save rainforest acreage.
6. Learn more about the rainforests.
7. Spread the word to others on the importance of the rainforests.
8. Help or form a local club or social group that supports rainforest preservation.
9. Sponsor a school study program educating others about the rainforests.
10. Remember...NOTHING is forever, unless we work together to make it so.
The future existence of the tropical rainforests directly affects your future!
Tropical rainforests are integral to a healthy planet and its ability to support life. They regulate earth's climate, are a deterrent against the greenhouse effect, contain edible food crops and other resources and prevent impoverishment and famine. In every sense, a standing rainforest supplies more economic wealth than if it were cleared away. Yet regardless of their importance, deforestation continues and a football field-sized area of rainforest is lost every second of every day.
Even though the tropical rainforests are in another part of the hemisphere, they play a major role in our everyday lives here in the United States, as well as every part of our planet.
Rainforests regulate rainfall on a global level which in turn affects global climate. They are the single greatest terrestrial source of oxygen (the air we breath). Rainforests also bring us food, herbs, pharmaceuticals, and many other items that are commonplace in our daily life. Together, we CAN make a change. Please, let's do it TOGETHER.
Saving the rainforests will save our WHOLE planet.
