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Rainforest: Land
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Logging rainforest timber is a large economic source, and in many cases, the main source of revenue for servicing the national debt of these developing countries. Logging profits are real to these countries that must service their debts, but they are fleeting. Governments are selling their assets too cheaply, and once the rainforest is gone, their source of income will ... be gone. Sadly, most of the real profits of the timber trade are made not by the developing countries, but by multinational companies and industrialists of the Northern Hemisphere. These huge, profit-driven logging companies pay governments a fraction of the timber's worth for large logging concessions on immense tracts of rainforest land and reap huge profits by harvesting the timber in the most economical manner feasible with little regard to the destruction left in their wake.
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This journey is intended to raise funds to re-claim Rainforest and Cultural Preservation in the name of the Amazanga Kicshuar Lushin River Community under a perpetual land trust which declares the land intangible to exploitation of any kind. Protecting the Rainforests through land acquisition is a fundamental part of Grupo Osanimi/The Osa Foundation's conservation ethnobotanical strategy. Working with Indigenous communities, local government, schools, and private landowners, Grupo Osanimi in Ecuador acquires land to create national parks that serve as buffer zones around existing protected areas and ethnobotanical gardens.
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The latest statistics show that rainforest land converted to cattle operations yields the land owner $60 per acre and if timber is harvested, the land is worth $400 per acre. However, if these renewable and sustainable resources are harvested, the land will yield the land owner $2,400 per acre.
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You an your group will work to develop a "campaign" to save the rainforest. This may include PowerPoint presentations, TV commercials, websites, speeches to government agencies, going on talk shows, or any other projects approved by the teacher. Projects should include showing the value of the rainforest and giving alternate suggestions for land developers.
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