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Media kit
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JUKEBOX BENEFIT The rainforests are the womb of life. They are home to half of the world's ten million species of plants and animals. Volunteers from the Rainforest Information Centre (also known as RIC) have been working for 20 years to defend rainforests in many parts of the world. (see www.rainforestinfo.org.au). RIC's latest fundraiser for Ecuador rainforests is a jukebox on the internet - www.rainforestjukebox.org. Here you can sup port rainforest conservation by buying CD's donated by popular Australian artists. Moreover, RIC has sponsors who make a donation to the rainforest for each person who visits the jukebox. Please help the rainforest by visiting the jukebox - every click counts! NOTE - jpeg images are available
from the fabulous Murray Cooper Collection of wildlife and nature
slides taken at the Los Cedros Biological Reserve in Ecuador, one
of the projects funded by the Rainforest Jukebox. These images
suitable for cyber or print publication are available at: www.rainforestjukebox.org/network/jpgs.html
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JUKEBOX BENEFIT THE RAINFORESTS The rainforests are the womb of life. They are home to half of the world's ten million species of plants and animals. Authorities estimate that more than a million species will become extinct in the next 20 years - an average of perhaps 200 species each day. Satellite photos show that unless we stem the relentless tide of destruction, less than a single human lifetime remains before we will see the utter annihilation of the rainforests - except for those areas that we manage to protect in the meantime. The rainforests are the primal source of many of the foods, medicines and industrial products that we use now and into the future. Volunteers from the Rainforest Information Centre (also known as RIC) have been working for 20 years to defend rainforests in many parts of the world. RIC projects are described on their web site: www.rainforestinfo.org.au where you can also find the latest breaking news about rainforests plus action alerts. THE JUKEBOX Most of RIC's work these days is taking place in Ecuador where RIC volunteers have been active since 1987. RIC's latest fundraiser for Ecuador rainforests is a jukebox on the internet. A wide range of Australian artists have donated their CD's and tapes to the jukebox which streams 40 music tracks that you can listen to for free. Funds from the sale of these recordings go to rainforest conservation projects in Ecuador. You can visit the jukebox at www.rainforestjukebox.org There are about a dozen CD's and tapes on the Rainforest Jukebox which include CD's from some of Australia's most popular artists. Some of these musicians have been empowering, harmonising and funding the Australian environmental movement since 1979. There's also a number of great aboriginal artists and bands on the juke box. EVERY CLICK COUNTS Every CD sold from the jukebox helps the benefit. However people don't need to buy anything from the site to help the rainforests. RIC has sponsors who make a donation to the rainforest for each person who visits the jukebox. Each visitor to the site results in a sponsor donating enough money to buy 2 square feet of rainforest to build up corridors where the monkeys and other creatures can roam freely between existing reserves in Ecuador. THE PROJECTS As well as supporting aboriginal issues funds raised by the Rainforest Jukebox go to four rainforest conservation projects in Ecuador: 1. The PANACOCHA Lagoon is at the
heart of the 56,000 hectare Panacocha Reserve in the Ecuadorean
headwaters of the mighty Amazon River. In this lagoon we find the
endangered Amazon River Dolphin and the surrounding forests echo
with the cries of 9 species of monkeys, 400 species of birds,
jaguars, ocelots and so much more. RIC is working to stop the oil
industry, poaching and illegal colonisation there. 2. In 1990, RIC and their
Ecuadorian partners established the LOS CEDROS BIOLOGICAL RESERVE
in western Ecuador with the help of funding from the Australian
government Aid agency. This 6,000 Ha. reserve provides habitat for
monkeys, bears, armadillos, pumas and jaguars which are now being
studied by scientists from around the world, perhaps the most
diverse forest on Earth. 3. PERMACULTURE AND SEED-SAVING IN ECUADOR. Unsustainable agriculture is one of the main engines driving the slash and burn destruction of the South American rainforest. Four RIC volunteers are working on food security in the bufferzones of the rainforest - planting organic orchards, teaching permaculture and seed-saving. See http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/Projects/madre-selva.htm. 4. SPONSOR AN ACRE. RIC's British partners "Rainforest Concern" have a "Sponsor-an-acre" program which is raising money to buy back critical rainforest habitat to create wildlife corridors between existing reserves in an area that has been acclaimed as a world biodiversity "hotspot". These will help protect an amazingly high number of endangered plants and animal species, many of which are found nowhere else on Earth. See www.rainforestjukebox.org/rfconcern.html The Rainforest Information Centre
(rainforestinfo@ozemail.com.au)
invites readers to help protect rainforests by visiting the first
ever cyber jukebox benefit at www.rainforestjukebox.org.
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