How do we protect the Amazon Rainforest from deforestation?

RAN's Protect-an-Acre Program was created to protect the world's rainforests and to support the rights of rainforest communities. The Protect-an-Acre Program is an alternative to "buy-an-acre" programs, which tend to ignore the fact that there are often people who depend on the forest and have lived in the forest sustainably for centuries. read more

7 steps you can take to help save the Amazon and the world's rainforests, from the Rainforest Action Network. 1) Reduce your paper and wood consumption. read more

I think we can only protect the Amazone Rainforest if the problems with corrupt officials and lack of law enforcement are addressed. The Amazone Rainforest is too important to be left to be managed by the whim of (corrupt) Brazilian and other Latin American politicians. read more

Deforestation of the Amazon is a very serious problem that we need to face as an international community in order to overcome it. Raising awareness for the importance of preserving biodiversity on both a local and global scale is the starting point. read more

The Amazon creates roughly half of its own rain fall from self-producing moisture; if there is a continuous increase in deforestation then the affects will not only have consequences on the rainforest's ecosystems, but also on the worlds weather. read more