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A multimillion-dollar fund launched in Britain on Tuesday will help preserve the Congo Basin by paying for projects that make the world's second largest rainforest worth more as a living resource than chopped down."Preserving our forests is vital if we are going to reduce global emissions and tackle climate change," said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in a press release.

Recently an un-contacted (by “civilized man”) tribe was found in the far west reaches of Brazil’s Amazon Basin on the Peruvian border. They were photographed by aircraft and are seen painted bright red pointing their bow and arrow weapons at the craft in defense!

By adopting a monkey you can help aid efforts to protect apes and their habitats around the world. Many apes are endangered or critically endangered, and need your help to survive.

The Sumatran Orangutan is critically endangered and the Bornean Orangutan's population is just 14% of 50 years ago. Their habitat is increasingly under threat due to illegal logging, forest fires, mining and most critically convertion of forest to palm oil plantations. Find out what you can do to help save the Orangutan!

Watch the trailer for the new documentary by the Eco Preservation Society "Saving The Mono Titi"

World Fair Trade Day is on May 10 and this year's theme is “Fair Trade + Ecology”. So, what's so green about fair trade? There are several reasons that fair trade products can be greener than others, but here is the main one.

It's the world's largest single buyer of condoms, purchasing more than a billion of the contraceptives in recent years to give away free as part of a national programme to combat Aids. Now the Brazilian government is to produce condoms using rubber collected from trees in the Amazon to help preserve the largest rainforest in the world.

Too many logos and not enough time? A brief guide to sustainability, animal welfare and fair trade certifications.

Representatives from Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Student Trade Justice Campaign, Food First and Grassroots International held a press conference today to call for a moratorium on all incentives and renewable fuels targets for agrofuels in federal energy legislation until standards can be developed to ensure that plant-based fuels such as biodiesel show significant environmental benefits over fossil fuels, and that they do not contribute to world hunger or human rights abuses.

Raz Godelnik of Eco-Libris writes on the bad news from Brazil about the increasing deforestation in the Amazon rain forest, the measures taken to fight it, and what he thinks should be added to these measures to make sure these precious trees will be kept alive.

Revitalizing. Clarifying. Heavenly. If you want some great Rainforest Treasure tea for free, then here's how to get it...

"Do you have Brazilian teakwood floors in your luxury home? How about Brazilian cherry cabinets? Any Brazilian mahogany items? Well, I certainly hope you are enjoying them. They might have come to you at a huge cost… well beyond what you paid for them."

A wildlife reserve earmarked for destruction to make way for biofuel crops has been saved after a study showed that it would earn more from eco-tourism

The slowing of Amazonian rainforest destruction in recent years may be about to end. Already there are signs that deforestation is gathering speed again. Deforestation in the states of Mato Grosso and Para is reportedly rising, with chainsaws and forest fires levelling thousands of hectares of pristine forest. Figures released last week by Brazil's space agency, INPE, show that between May and July of this year there was a 200% rise in deforestation in Mato Grosso.