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Rainforest photography, like all good nature photography, is more
about your sensitivity to nature than about expensive equipment. Of
course you need a decent camera, and you must know how to use it. But
the quality of your photos does not depend on the price tag on your
camera.
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The loss of rainforests has an intense and overwhelming consequence. The
rainforests house the Earth's richest biological resources. Almost half of the
world's biodiversity will be extinct or severely endangered in the next few
years if this rainforest deforestation continues.
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First of all, a regular forest usually consists of one dominant species of tree
- the evergreen forests of colder climates, or the redwood forest of California,
for example. A tropical rainforest has many species of trees and plants,
and trees of the same species very seldom grow close together. Scientists have
counted as many as 300 different species growing in one 2 1/2 acre (one hectare)
in a South American rainforest.
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The following web sites are presented to you because we
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are not associated with any of these web sites or the
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Iracambi Atlantic Rainforest Research and Conservation
Center - From all over the world, come
Volunteers and Researchers to help Iracambi fulfil their
mission to work with their community to make
conservation of the rainforest more attractive than its
destruction. They live in the Atlantic Rainforest on a
working farm in the buffer zone of the Serra do
Brigadeiro State Park, home to the world's largest
population of one of the most endangered primates in the
Americas, the Wooly Spider Monkey. Daily they face the
same issues as their farming neighbors: how can they
make a living from the land, whilst also preserving the
biodiversity of the area? |
Brazil Eco Adventure Tours - Brazil is the first
among the megadiverse countries and the Atlantic
Rainforest / (Mata Atlântica) the most impressive of its
6 biomes. It contains the worlds second largest
biosphere reserve, 4 of the 7 Brazilian natural world
heritage sites and circa 600 of the 900 conservation
units. The flora and fauna of this unique hotspot is
distributed over 7 ecosystems with up to 5 altitudinal
zones. Nowhere else such an expressive geological,
biological and social/cultural diversity in combination
with a fantastic landscape can be found. |
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World Land Trust is an international
conservation charity, based in Halesworth, a rural town
in Suffolk, UK. Since its foundation in 1989 as the
World Wide Land Conservation Trust, the World Land Trust
has been working to preserve the world's most
biologically important and threatened lands, and has
helped purchase and protect over 375,000 acres of
habitats rich in wildlife, in Asia, Central and South
America and the UK. Who runs the World Land Trust? The
World Land Trust is run by a small number of staff and
interns, many of whom work part-time. |
Tropical Rainforest Coalition (TRC) believes
that individuals can make a difference. Looking back, we
can say we have. Established in 1991 during World
Rainforest Week, TRC is an all-volunteer, 501c3
non-profit organization that has made a significant
impact on the preservation of rainforests and indigenous
people. TRC builds coalitions between individuals,
corporations, businesses, learning institutions and
non-governmental organizations seeking to reverse the
unsustainable use of the rainforests. |
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SuddenRush Atlantic Rainforest Institution - The
main goal of the SuddenRush Atlantic Rainforest
Institution (SRARFI) is to preserve the truly endangered
and species-rich Atlantic Rainforest along Brazils
Atlantic coastline. All intact rainforest that you
sponsor is then transferred into a natural reserve
that guarantees governmental protection for eternity!
Our other main target is to transfer deforested land
that still boarders intact rainforest into secondary
rainforest by a new and sustainable way of planting
Guarana. You can help the Atlantic Rainforest to
preserve and restore the natural heritage by becoming a
sponsor. |
STARO
- objects are to promote the preservation and
conservation of the Amazon rainforest, to advance
education in the subject and to promote research into
the flora and fauna of the Amazon Rainforest and to
publish the useful results. Our mission is to promote
and support the protection and the conservation of the
Amazon Rainforest. Although the Amazon rainforest has
hardly been explored, 16,700km2 was lost due to
deforestation in 2005/06. If man continues this rate of
destruction by the year 2020 the largest rainforest in
the world will be gone. The rainforest is the source of
much of the world’s prescribed medicines. |
Brazil Ecotravel offers tailored itineraries and
programs for group and independent travelers as well as tour
outfitters, travel agencies, institutions and other
organizations. Their mission is to promote environmentally
responsible travel in Brazil, ensuring that their natural
resources and local communities benefit now and in the future.
This mission demonstrates their belief that the true beauty of a
nation and its people is reflected in the traveler's eyes. |
The Amazon Conservation Association (ACA) is a 501(c)3
nonprofit organization that is active in Peru and Bolivia. Our
directors and staff are experienced ecologists and
conservationists. We work to protect biodiversity by studying
ecosystems and developing innovative conservation tools to
protect land in the region while supporting the livelihoods of
local communities. Our mission is to conserve the biological
diversity of the Amazon. Road construction, logging, and land
clearing for agriculture are endangering the health of the
Amazon rainforest. |
Blue Planet Biomes - In this site you will
discover facts about our planet, its complex patterns of biomes,
plants, and animals, and how climates ultimately determine the
biomes of our Earth. This site was created to teach students the
power of the Internet as a tool for both communication and
learning, and how to use this tool while at the same time
express their scientific/environmental knowledge in a fun way. |
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