Sentence examples for for the rainforest from inspiring English sources

It was the annual benefit for the Rainforest Fund that features Sting and is produced by his wife, Trudie Styler.

For REDD to be sustainable, it will have to be more than life support for the rainforest.

Anyone not recognising that, anyone left unenchanted by Colombia, Costa Rica or Algeria, is failing to spot the wood for the rainforest.

"Let's be blunt here: there's fundamental governance issues in Madagascar," said Richard Donovan, senior vice president for the Rainforest Alliance, an environmental group.

"Things are working," said Francisco Chapela, an agronomist who first came to Oaxaca 30 years ago and now works for the Rainforest Alliance in Mexico.

In the 1990s, when the candle-holding for the rainforest was at its height, over 16m hectares a year was lost.

The Ecuadorian government is holding off drilling in return for compensation for preserving the rainforest, but for how long, nobody knows.

"It's in the ground and water of the rainforest for anyone to see and smell".

In all, it planned to flood 2% of the rainforest for reservoirs.With democracy restored, the government ordered a rethink.

In 1992 Rio de Janeiro hosted the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (the Earth Summit), and a few years afterward Brazil and the major developed countries of the world issued a joint plan for the protection of the rainforest.

But for all the terrors of the rainforest, it is equally rewarding in its beauty.