This video is called Atlantic Forest, Brazil – The Nature Conservancy.
From Wildlife Extra:
Atlantic Forest remnant purchased to save critically endangered species in BrazilMAMMALS [in this new reserve]
* Yellow-breasted Capuchin – Critically Endangered
* Spiny Rat – Endangered (described 2002)
* Maned Three-toed Sloth – Endangered
* Giant Armadillo – Endangered
* Thin-spined Porcupine – Vulnerable
* Mountain Lion – VulnerableDecember 2007. American Bird Conservancy and its Brazilian partner Fundação Biodiversitas have acquired almost 1,000 acres of a unique and isolated stand of endangered Brazilian Atlantic forest, and plan to save what little more that remains in an area that is one the great biodiversity hotspots in South America. The new protected area, to be named after the Stresemann’s Bristlefront, represents the sole sanctuary for this critically endangered bird species imminently facing extinction.
September 2012. The lush rainforest carpeting Serra Bonita mountain range in eastern Brazil represents the last significant example of a unique habitat that supports rare and endemic flora and fauna. The area is at the heart of an urgent conservation initiative by World Land Trust (WLT) and Instituto Uiracu to strategically purchase private properties to expand the Serra Bonita Reserve: here.
ACTION ALERT UPDATE PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY!
Global Ecological Emergency: Brazil Must Succeed in Keeping
Soybeans Out of Amazon Rainforest
Rainforest Portal a project of Ecological Internet
http://www.rainforestportal.org/
February 12, 2008
TAKE ACTION
Only soy products that do not directly or indirectly destroy
ancient rainforests, or intensify climate change and other
problems inherent with large-scale industrial monocultures,
will be tolerated in international markets
http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=brazil_agrofuel
The greatest emerging threat to Amazon rainforests and
communities is industrial soy plantations. Huge mechanized,
soy monocultures destroy tropical ecosystems, accelerate
climate change and cause human rights abuses primarily to
produce agrofuel and livestock feed. The soya industry wipes
out biodiversity, destroys soil fertility, pollutes freshwater
and displaces communities. Soybean production expands the
agricultural frontier not only through fire and deforestation
to clear ancient rainforests, but more importantly by pushing
cattle ranches and displacing forest peoples further into
natural rainforest ecosystems.
With rising soy and other agricultural commodity prices, there
has been a marked increase in fires and Amazonian
deforestation to clear new agricultural lands from primary
rainforests. In reaction Brazil has again announced increased
agricultural deforestation enforcement. Amazon rainforest
sustainability critically depends upon new soybean production
being kept out of ancient primary rainforest ecosystems. Let’s
continue the commitment of Ecological Internet’s Earth Action
Network to strongly speak ecological truth to intransigent
power.
TAKE ACTION NOW:
http://www.rainforestportal.org/alerts/send.asp?id=brazil_agrofuel
DISCUSS ALERT:
http://www.rainforestportal.org/issues/2008/02/global_ecological_emergency_br.asp
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