Unless you're a billionaire (please contact me!) there is not much you can do - or? Oh no, even though you might not be Bill Gates (at least that's what I think. If you are, do contact me!) there is in fact a lot you can do to help. Here a short list:
1) spreading the message:
- you can make similar websites like this, especially if you speak any other languages. I for example speak German, so I made a German site like this with the exact same information, just in German. If you want to, feel free to translate my text in any language you can speak and make websites like this. It's not about copyright, but about sending a message.
- make your friends and relatives aware of the problem
- you can even make and hand out leaflets
- try to contact locals of the region both to make them aware of the threat, and to create concepts of saving the forest together with them
- if in any way possible, get powerful people like polititians, celebrities and Bill Gates on (y)our side
2) personal
- only buy wood where you are sure it is not from any primeval forest. One way to be entirely sure is to buy wood with the FSC mark (Forest Stewartship Council), as they only give their mark to environmentally friendly logged wood
- support groups like Greenpeace, WWF and Robin Wood
- (more or less obvious) do not collect any rare creatures from the tropics, especially if it is unclear where they were retrieved, no matter how strong the urge to have this creature is
Sunday, February 22, 2009
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