I’ve just saved a whole hectare of tropical rainforest in Ecuador. I didn’t even have to leave my desk to do it. All it took was a visit to the Rainforest Rescue website and $200 (tax-deductible!) on my credit card. Ecuador’s rainforests are being cleared at a rate of 300,000 hectares per year, including large areas of the Cloud Forests, home to the spectacled bear, jaguar, sloth, howler monkey, puma, toucan’s and thousands of other species. Read the rest of this entry »

Last week (18 March) 23 students from the Year-11 geography class of St. John’s-Kilmarnock School in Breslau, 80 km SW of Toronto, Ontario, Canada planted 252 rainforest trees on private property in the Daintree. This was on Lot 40, Cape Tribulation Rd, Cape Kimberley, as their contribution to Rainforest Rescue’s Plant a Rainforest Project. Read the rest of this entry »