Wildscreen Arkive - Discover the world's most endangered species Wildscreen's Arkive project was launched in 2003 and grew to become the world's biggest encyclopaedia of life on Earth. With the help of over 7,000 of the world’s best wildlife filmmakers and photographers, conservationists and scientists, Arkive.org featured multi-media fact-files for more than 16,000 endangered species. Freely accessible to everyone, over half a million people every month, from over 200 countries, used Arkive to learn and discover the wonders of the natural world. Since 2013 Wildscreen was unable to raise sufficient funds from trusts, foundations, corporates and individual donors to support the year-round costs of keeping Arkive online. As a small conservation charity, Wildscreen eventually reached the point where it could no longer financially sustain the ongoing costs of keeping Arkive free and online or invest in its much needed development. Therefore, a very hard decision was made to take the www.arkive.org website offline in February 2019.
Facts and information on the Amazon Rainforest The Disappearing Rainforests We are losing Earth's greatest biological treasures just as we are beginning to appreciate their true value. Rainforests once covered 14% of the earth's land surface; now they cover a mere 6% and experts estimate that the last remaining rainforests could be consumed in less than 40 years.One and one-half acres of rainforest are lost every second with tragic consequences for both developing and industrial countries. Rainforests are being destroyed because the value of rainforest land is perceived as only the value of its timber by short-sighted governments, multi-national logging companies, and land owners. The Wealth of the Rainforests The Amazon Rainforest covers over a billion acres, encompassing areas in Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia and the Eastern Andean region of Ecuador and Peru. Vincristine, extracted from the rainforest plant, periwinkle, is one of the world's most powerful anticancer drugs. Rainforest Action But who is really to blame? The Amazon River
World Food Programme - Home Earth Times | News and Information about Environmental Issues Is its too late? ZooBorns travel companies | educational tours | student travel agency We are a nonprofit organization founded by educators in 1989 with the mission of saving tropical forests. We began by encouraging schools to raise money to purchase rainforest acres and forwarding their donations to the Monteverde Conservation League (Costa Rica), Programme For Belize and Fundacion Jatun Sacha (Ecuador). In 1990 we began an innovative travel program that sent students and educators to the rainforests we were helping to save. Bruce Calhoun. Butch Beedle, Treasurer. is a retired middle school social studies teacher who has been active with Save The Rainforest since 1988. Mark Blackbourn. Karri Roh-Wasley. Board of Advisors. Jennifer Dallman. Corinne Dedini. Mike Freidlin. Roy Triveline.
Charity Navigator - Rating for World Food Program USA International : International Peace, Security, and Affairs (Grantmaking) Dedicated to building support for the United Nations World Food Programme Board Leadership Bonnie Raquet Interim Chair CEO Richard Leach President and CEO This rating was published 05/01/2017 and includes data from FY2015, the most recent 990 received at that time. All data for Financial Performance Metrics calculations was provided by World Food Program USA on recent 990s filed with the IRS. World Food Program USA is a 501(c)(3) charity that proudly supports the mission of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the largest humanitarian agency addressing hunger worldwide. Grants Fundraising Primary Revenue Program names and associated costs are listed for the top programs as reported on the charity's most recently filed Form 990. Ratings History This charity has an official representative registered with Charity Navigator.
Nature Publishing Group : science journals, jobs, and information Wikibooks 10 Rainforest Facts for 2020 Tropical rainforests are among the world's most important ecosystems for they role they play in sustaining life on the planet. From the Amazon to the Congo, every rainforest has a unique assemblage of plants, animals, and people. Below are 10 quick up-to-date facts about tropical rainforests to explain what these ecosystems are, why they are important, and how they can be saved. For more in-depth coverage of rainforests, check out our rainforests news feed and the main rainforests site. 1. While tropical rainforests are the most famous, rainforests are also found in sub-tropical and temperate zones. 2. Estimates of forest cover depend on the methodology used to define a forest, including the density of canopy cover and height of trees. 3. The Amazon basin contains the world's largest rainforest, which is nearly the roughly of the continental United States and covers about 40 percent of South America. The second largest rainforest is found in Central Africa's Congo Basin. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.