This website is designed to be a tool to help anyone
learn about rainforests around the globe, whether they
are interested in the wildlife, the landscape or the indigenous
people.
As well as being an interesting and fun environmental
education resource, a key aim of the site is to raise
awareness of the importance of the rainforests for not
only the plants and animals within them, but also the
entire global climate. If the general consensus amongst
the world's scientific communities is correct, their destruction
could also contribute to an increase in global warming,
drought and famine, particularly for areas, such as much
of Africa, that are already vulnerable.
This website is brought together using the work of scientists,
environmentalists, photographers, zoologists, botonists,
conservationists and other relevant experts.
We are supporting the World Land Trust (WLT) - a conservation
charity involved in numerous projects worldwide. Particularly
relevant to this site is their work in helping to purchase
rainforest land to protect and preserve it.
You can Help to Buy Rainforest
and Save it by donating to the WLT to save some of
this land through a personal contribution or buying as
a gift.
If you have any photos, stories or drawings that you
would like to see shown on the site, please feel free
to send them in. We always welcome contributions or constructive
comments.
