Sentence examples for rainforest conservation from inspiring English sources

Subscribers pay about £10 a month, and the proceeds go towards rainforest conservation projects in South America.

But if the Noel Kempff project is truly a model for a future world of carbon markets rooting in rainforest conservation projects, it suggests real problems ahead.

In 2005, the Ohio-born nun Dorothy Stang, a champion of rainforest conservation, was also murdered in Pará, a contract hit ordered by local ranchers and loggers.

Carr, who took Wran's title as longest serving premier of the state, named rainforest conservation and the establishment of Western Sydney University as among Wran's greatest achievements.

Shell, HSBC put $665,000 toward Borneo rainforest conservation Source: Mongabay.com Brunei Shell Petroleum Shell Oill) and HSBC have donated 500,000 Brunei dollars ($333,000) each to conserve forests on the island of Borneo, reports the Borneo Bulletin.

According to the Rainforest Foundation, the biggest overall funder of Congo rainforest conservation has been the US government – mostly through the US Agency for International Development (USAid), but also through the State Department.

Brazil has already set aside 43percentt of the Amazon rainforest for conservation and for indigenous peoples.

The Rainforest Alliance, a conservation group, said the Gibson chief executive, Henry Juszkiewicz, would not rejoin its board until the federal investigation ends.

Lapa Rios, Osa Peninsula Former Peace Corps workers, John and Karen Lewis, moved from Minnesota to Costa Rica in the Nineties to develop a tract of rainforest into a conservation project and private reserve.

IN JUNE last year Daniel Avelino, the public prosecutor of Brazil's state of Pará, the home of most of the Amazon cattle-herd, probably saved more rainforest than many conservation groups ever will.

If you try to do a boycott or slag them off as unfair or evil, you won't be able to get them round the table".Consumers have more power than they realise, says Chris Wille of the Rainforest Alliance, a conservation group.