Rainforest Concern

Education & Resources

WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY (5th JUNE 2007)

To those of you who joined our schools' initiative "A Pound for the Planet" this year, Thank you for your support, and remember there is always NEXT year's environment day to start planning for!  

We are delighted that so many of you are learning about rainforests at school and actively trying to help conserve them. It is with your enthusiasm and help that we can really make a difference together — SO START TAKING ACTION NOW!

Facing up to rainforest facts

We cannot afford to stand by any longer and watch rainforests be burnt to the ground for cattle ranching, or removed to make way for oil and mineral mining.

It is estimated that, if we do not change our course of action, there will not be any rainforests remaining in 50 years time — that’s in your lifetime! Many people make excuses for destroying forests but the fact is that, once they are destroyed, countless species of plants and animals will be killed with many species being lost forever.

Indigenous people, who have depended upon the forests for hundreds of years, will lose their homes and will have nothing once the forests are gone.