
The Prince's Rainforest project is worth your attention. Prince Charles, Britain's long standing monarch in waiting has lent his name and all the cache that entails to bringing attention to the astounding rate of loss of the world's rain forests. The most famous lie along the Amazon but as a whole they are scattered across an equatorial belt around the planet.
Development projects pushed by a bourgening population and avaricious industry threaten the existance of this vital ecosystem.
The site is headlined by a ticker counter that gives an idea of the rate of deforestation taking place. Its content outlines the logic of preservation. There is no man made technology yet available that provides a better way of collecting carbon dioxide let alone converting it to useful biomass in the way the trees do. The site explains all this and underlines the inescapable logic of preservation. Do give it look here
Friday, May 29, 2009
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