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What Can We Do to Help Rainforests?

• Learn more about tropical rainforests and the plants, animals, and people that depend upon them.
  • Educate yourself and others. We appreciate things that we have learned about. By sharing the plight of the rain forest, we can increase awareness and make a change.
  • Be a life-long learner here at the Pavilion (and elsewhere), share what you have learned with both our visitors and staff!

• Write letters… Public opinion can help to change a company’s practices.
  • To congressional representatives to express concern about the destruction of tropical rainforests.
  • To corporations whose practices destroy the rainforest.

• Visit tropical countries and support responsible eco-tourism.
• Support conservation organizations that are working to protect tropical rainforests and their indigenous people.
• Recycle aluminum; you can reduce the amount of bauxite that must be mined from the ground in tropical countries.
• Buy only domestically captive-bred exotic pets to discourage illegal trade in threatened or endangered species.

• Purchasing sustainable wood sources
  • When purchasing furniture, investigate the source of the wood to determine whether it was grown in a sustainable manner.
  • Use less paper because most paper is made from trees. You can use recycled paper or paper that is made from other plant products besides trees such as a farmers’ leftovers like corn stalks … look for the words “post-consumer waster” to have the biggest impact.

• Look for rainforest friendly products
  • Shade grown coffee
  • Chocolate from responsible producers
  • Eat less red meat. Rain forests are being slashed and burned to clear the land for cattle. For every ¼ pound fast-food hamburger that comes from the rain forest, 55 square feet of rain forest is destroyed.

• Use less gasoline and plastic.
  • Gasoline and plastic are made from petroleum or oil. Extraction of oil is very harmful to the rain forest.
  • This also reduces pollution