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Amazon Rainforest Tours and Travel | International Efforts to Save the Amazon

Like conservation efforts in the Galapagos, protecting the Amazon Rainforest is an international affair. Environmental non-profit organizations throughout the world, some with overlapping omnibus goals, others targeted at very specific problems, work to keep the plight of the Amazon in the public eye and raise funds to continue conservation activities in the region. Many of the Amazon Rainforest conservation organizations are based in the United States. To name but a few:
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The World Wildlife Fund has a longstanding interest in the Amazon Rainforest, dating back some thirty years. It uses science-based knowledge to pursue its objectives of preserving nature and promoting sustainability worldwide.
Headquartered in San Francisco, Amazon Watch is in business to help the indigenous communities of the Amazon Rainforest stave off industrial development within their tribal homelands when large scale projects such as new highways or fuel pipelines threaten their rights. The organization offers First World media exposure, public relations and legal aid to help communities fight fire with fire. Another San Francisco organization, the Rainforest Action Network, seeks to educate and gain proponents for reducing U.S. reliance on oil as a way to protect the Amazon and the world's other rainforests.
From Virginia, longstanding Conservation International raises funds through its "Future for Life" campaign" to aid species and habitat conservation. The Amazon Rainforest is one of many regions throughout the world where the organization directs its funding. One of its strategies is to work through local organizations in the regions it serves, re-granting funds to indigenous communities to develop sustainable economic activity.
The Texas organization, TADPOLE, stands for Tropical Amphibian Distribution and Population Operation for Life-saving Efforts. Tadpole is dedicated to saving the Amazon's amphibian species through education and monitoring.
Fundraising has become more creative over the years. Some organizations have adapted the "save this child" fundraising technique to help ensure the Amazon's survival. Through the British organization STARO (Save The Amazon Rainforest Organization), one may protect Amazon land at a price of about $20 for a spinney, $37 for a copse, $75 for a glade and $128 for an acre. These funds go to support efforts to engage the indigenous communities in sustainable rainforest industries. In 2005, the Wildlife Conservation Society auctioned off naming rights for a newly-identified orange and brown monkey species in Madidi National Park in the Bolivia Amazon with proceeds going to manage the park. The winning bidder, the online casino GoldenPalace.com, paid $650,000 to give tiny creature the Latin version of its company name.
And this is what it will take, so many minds, so many organizations and so many deeds, aimed at one lofty and essential goal: saving the Amazon Rainforest.

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