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A
cup of TEA - Diary in
memory of the forest.
Research:
#4 - Real Value
Date: 26. January 2008.
Last week I told how the forest
is important, this week I will tell you how
to take part in saving the rain forest. We need
to stop cutting it down, and save it. The rain
forest is used in two stages, first the timber
from the forest is cut down and sold. Then they
burn the area where the forest has been, and
start growing grassland for meat-production
(it may be the hamburgers you get eat from time
to time.) or growing petrol. PETROL created
from plant-oil is not environmental friendly,
if it is produced where there was rain forest.
Also producing petrol from plants push the price
on food up, so poor people gets higher prices.
Petrol from plant production has to come from
waist products of food production and not as
something that push food production away. A
National Geographical magazine from 2007 had
a feature about this topic that is great reading
if you want to know more.
When getting furniture, look after products
that not is from rain forest trees. The trees
that is cut in the tropical rain forest is:
mahogany, teak, sapele, meranti and other. What
ever the shop say, tropical / rain forest do
come from the rain forest. Also the "environmental
friendly" trees.
But
there is one problem we also need to think about
when we are going to have the rain forest, and
that is finding other types of jobs to the people
who is working with it. And there is a lot of
ways we can use that people to take care of
the forest, and help to rebuild the rain forest.
If you want to learn more you can follow this
link to The
Rainforest foundation. Here you can also
help in different ways.
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References to this page you will
find on the Indept. Information page.
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