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Save the Sumatran Rainforest

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monkeezre.png[Action Alert] • Sign the petition to call on the president of Indonesia to cancel a government plan to clearcut the Sumatran rainforest.  (more)
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Sing for Earth Day

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Celebrate Earth Day with the Rainforest Alliance by participating in the singalong for an Earth Day PSA.  (more)

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Stop the Amazon Chainsaw Massacre

Faye Sakellaridis
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[Action Alert] • Add your voice to those calling on Brazil's President Dima to veto a bill that allows loggers to clear-cut the Amazon. (more)

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Trudie Styler on Rainforest Preservation and Human Spirit

Zoe Helene
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Trudie Styler founded the Rainforest Foundation Fund with her husband, Sting, in 1989. In this interview she discusses the foundation's work with indiginous communities to protect their rights and save 100,000 square kilometers of forest. (more)

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Music From a Disappearing Culture

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There's a benefit for the Secoya of Ecuador this Sunday, October 9th, in upstate New York. (more)

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Shamanism is the Technology of the Spirit -- an Interview with Mark Plotkin

Robert Tindall
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One of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th century medical science came from a preparation used to shoot monkeys down from the tops of trees. Naked "primitives" turned out to be master chemists whose muscle relaxant revolutionized the practice of surgery. Many experts claim the rainforests continues to promise cures. Have we exhausted Nature's cornucopia? Or are we wearing blinders that prevent us from seeing them? (more)

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Kit-Kat Habitat Killer

Erin Shaw
ktkate_thumb.jpgA recent Greenpeace report reveals Nestle’s contracts with an unsustainable palm oil plantation company that’s cutting into protected orangutan habitats to create Kit-Kats and other candy bars. (more)
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