please save animals 3 years ago

very active while this was going on.

But I read through the entries and clicked on some of the links and enjoyed the beautiful photos.

I also recently signed up at work to have automatic deductions of $5/paycheck donated to The Nature Conservancy, one of my favorite environmental organizations. I’ve been a member for probably close to 30 years and have been very impressed with the creative ways they have come up with for their goal of protecting natural areas that are biologically important. The majority of their work has been within the United States (including the temperate and tropical rainforests here) but they also are very active in international projects that are often focussed on tropical rainforests. This page gives more information about their rainforest programs.

They have chapters in all 50 states and programs in 30 other countries if you’re interested in getting more involved.

The photo is from a reserve in Ecuador that they helped to protect. 5 years ago

I don’t know if this has been mentioned before, but I’m sure it has…

The Rainforest Site helps promote awareness and prevent deforestation every day. With a simple, daily click of the green “Click Here to Give – it’s FREE” button at The Rainforest Site, visitors help to preserve rainforest land. Visitors pay nothing. Critical habitat is preserved. Every click counts in the battle to save our rainforests.

The Rainforest Site.

XOX5 years ago

to experience its beauty that very few people see.

I watched a movie a couple months ago called “Ferngully” It is about forest faries that live in the rainforest that is threatened by logging company and a polluting force of destruction named Hexxus (which I think is symbolic of all humans that just don’t care)

It was a really good movie, even though it was animated. But it made me sit back and think about how I care about nature around me. I know that I don’t live near the rainforest, but my current actions toward trees, and other wildlife reflect how I might treat the rainforest if it was in my backyard.

I hope people take this rainforest goal seriously. It is so very important.

:o) 5 years ago

Help saving the forest helps saving their lives… 5 years ago

you do not only save it but the animals living in it too.. 5 years ago

This goal made me think of my time in Lanta island. I went there with a girl friend. We were lucky to have a free and amazing trip to ride an elephant in the jungle, climb a cave and trek along the elephant track. It was a wonderful experience seeing elephant walking and eating in the forest, instead of seeing them walking on the street. 5 years ago

There are so many animals that live in the rainforests around the world, but this link is from the Amazon. It is but one page of many and highlights the variety of animal life, not just plant life, that relies upon the rainforests to survive. Yet another reason to save the rainforests! There are many pages at this site so I hope you all enjoy them,

http://www.leslietaylor.net/gallery/animals/mammals.htm

Thank you also for making this team possible and hopefully many can enjoy the beauty of the natural world for many more years to come.
XOX5 years ago

I guess National Rainforest week is either over or almost over. Here’s one more picture from my trip to the rainforest of a cave that a bear made in a huge, old tree. 5 years ago

I am so grateful to all of you who have so enthusiastically joined in this celebration of the rainforest. As National Rainforest Week draws to a close today, I leave you with Pegge Hopper images of a wahine in a maile lei. The maile is a fragrant vine that grows in the rain forest, and its leaves are used in leis of celebration. Leis are a Hawaiian expression of gratitude and aloha.

Imagine the fragrance, not a heavy flowery scent, but of the forest itself, as if the spirit of the forest, ancient and new at the same time, had a natural perfume.

aloha & mahalo … A hui hou! 5 years ago

for hosting celebrate National Rain Forest Week. It was beautiful and educational. A great gathering of 43Ters. Our gracious hostess, mahinui, did a fantastic job. Thanks for a wonderful celebration! 5 years ago

http://starbulletin.com/2007/09/29/news/story05.html

The State of Hawaii has purchased development rights to substantial acreage on the Big Island, with reforestation plans. This is a beautiful story, wherein a couple leaves a legacy that goes beyond money.

This photo from the article is very typical of the rain forests there. They are sometimes referred to euphemistically as cloud forests, perhaps so as not to scare off tourists. 5 years ago

Rainforest Crunch Ice Cream would have been the perfect choice for the celebration but alas I could not find it. 5 years ago

and I had forgotten to click on “I want to do this.” But I did eat and appreciate the following rainforest items this week:

mangos
guava
coconut
bananas
cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger
chocolate

So that was my own private way of celebrating! ;) 5 years ago

http://www.coffeetimes.com/kapa.htm

This is a link to the history of kapa or tapa cloth making in Hawaii. The story is told as a legend, as a Hawaiian would talk story about what went before.

In Hawaiian legend, Hina is the goddess mother, and among her daughters are Pele and Mahinui, who you don’t hear a whole lot about.

Hina:

This woodcut is done by an artist who lives in Volcano, in the rainforest of Hawaii, Dietrich Varez. Here is something he has done in color, of maile pickers. Maile is the fragrant vine leaf used in making ceremonial leis.

5 years ago

Rain forests are some of the most interesting habitats on the planet. When I first went to college, I majored in environmental studies. My goal was to go count bugs in the rain forest. And it seems so weird, but there are still so many undiscovered species and so much life to learn about. The rain forests are complex and wonderful.

However, in the end, I got my degree in political science. No bugs anywhere there (except for the politicians. But I still appreciate the rain forests.

Let’s celebrate and save them. 5 years ago

I am about the ONLY one here who has DIRECT knowledge of the rain forest.

I wear more clothes now, though… 5 years ago

Hi, the shirt I have on in my avitar is a save the rain forest shirt. I am going to try and find that company again and get a new shirt from them. 5 years ago

I’ll try to take a trip up to Maunawili Falls tomorrow. 5 years ago

it was wonderful for me to have a chance to join this team! 5 years ago

My mother, sister and I went to Oahu for my sister’s best friend’s wedding. One of the days, we spent the morning hiking up through the rainforest to Manoa Falls. Even just the short amount of time I spent there was so amazing to me that I think of it when issues of conservation and preservation come up. 5 years ago

5 years ago

In Brazil, alternative fuel is the order of the day. It is synthesized from sugar cane. Sugar cane, the crop that displaced the rain forests of Hawaii, is what is used.

What is the sense of destroying rain forest to plant sugar cane to synthesize alternative fuel?

In the fragile rainforest, roads are built not just to service the needs of local petroleum companies, but to enable Occidental Petroleum for example access to the Yasuni Rainforest.

But, shall we celebrate? Ecuador refuses to allow the road through the Yasuni to be built.

To find out more, here is a link. I looked for an up to the minute link, but settled for this one.

http://www.saveamericasforests.org/Yasuni/

There is a lot to explore on this website.

5 years ago

Before I was invited to adopt this goal, I hadn’t really thought much about rainforests. That’s not to say that I wasn’t aware of the problems, just that they weren’t at the top of my mind and I hadn’t taken the time to think too deeply about the issues.

There’s much to be done in terms of building awareness about the importance of preserving the rainforests and the environmental and ecological consequences of not doing so, but I was impressed by some of the preservation efforts I came across. In particular, I was interested in the campaign to save the Great Bear Rainforest in British Columbia, which is the world’s largest temperate rainforest. Pressure in the marketplace actually drove the logging companies to reach an agreement with the environmental groups regarding which areas needed to be protected. Read about the campaign here: http://www.savethegreatbear.org/thecampaign

While this example shows how applying pressure on the pocketbooks of giant corporations can have a real impact, I’m just not sure how this could be pulled off on a much grander scale… 5 years ago

some haunting music

an anthem to the land of the Hawaiians and to the people.

“Our land is in great great danger now…” The land, the rain forest, the people – it is all one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSXNP4uE4nc&mode=related&search=

Hawaiian culture is being perpetuated through music, dance, and the arts. I cannot begin to express the emotions I feel about these islands, the people and all that has been taken from them.

If you wish, here is the Israel Kamakawiwo’ole version of the same music. The production values are not as clear, but it’s Iz.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvqGWigKusQ

5 years ago

Well since I don’t live in a Rain forest and I don’t have the money to visit one.

I planted trees. Lilac Trees to be exact.

I brought them from home, They’ve been in containers for the past two years. I wanted them to accumulate to this climate before I shocked them again with putting them in the ground. I am sharing them with my sisters and my mother. They are originally from Mothers Yard {my grand mother died, many, many years ago} Anyway, I wanted my sisters to have a tree of hers, since they both own their own homes now, it worked out perfectly.

I still have another container of them to plant, I think all in all I brought 5 or 7. This last container I won’t know for sure until I separate the roots. 5 years ago

This is a hula celebration at Kilauea. Kahiko is the traditional hula form. Halemaumau is the home of Pele. The name means house of everlasting fire.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sppdlelCP2U

Enjoy, as part of the celebration of Rain Forest Week. The rain forest at Kilauea is sacred to Pele, daughter of the goddess Hina.

This is my favorite image of Pele. She sits in her sacred forest holding the egg which holds her sister Hi’iaka. The tales of Pele and Hi’iaka are epic. 5 years ago

Here’s another from Alaska’s inside passage…

The stuff hanging from the trees is a kind of lichen (in the fungus family) 5 years ago

are a beautiful and completely necessary environment on this planet. I hope the manmade abuse of these environments stops soon, our lives will change forever if they go… So lets celebrate them instead of destroying them… 5 years ago

Are some of the most beautiful natural places I have seen,

I visited the Olympic National Park in northwestern USA whilst on honeymoon, and saw similar habitat in Dartmoor in southern England, without realising what it was!

See a rainforest before you die, or before they disappear, whichever comes first! 5 years ago