Save on the risqué Tarzan and Jane costumes and explore your inner animal at one of the world’s most breathtaking tree-top getaways. Whether it’s bare-bones lodging or some back-woods luxury these tip-top wonders are sure to amaze. So, back away from the Blackberry, strap on some boots, grab your mate, or someone better, and go climb a tree.
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Big, bold and beautiful, the Rafflesia arnoldii boasts the title of the largest flower in the world and can grow to massive proportions, with a flower diameter of up to one meter (three feet) and a hefty weight of up to 11 kilograms (24 lbs). It might seem like a great gift for that special someone except that it’s nicknamed the corpse flower and smells like rotting meat, so may not be quite as endearing as expected.
Image: Assembly of Upper Baram headmen in 2006 (top left corner: the late Kelesa Naan, former headman of Long Kerong; top right corner: Bilong Oyoi, the deposed headman of Long Sait). Photo: The Bruno Manser Fund
In a move to seize control of land belonging to indigenous peoples who oppose logging in the Borneo rainforests, the government of Malaysia is replacing locally-elected community leaders with timber company associates.
Can a new plan to halt deforestation of Brazil's Amazon rainforest actually work? Last week, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva announced a new international fund to raise money for sustainable forest projects. It is hoped that nations will donate a target amount of $21 billion over the next 13 years. Norway has been the first to commit with $100 million so far.
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Rainforests have some of the most complex and interesting ecosystems on the planet. Situated between the tropics and the equator, they have almost half of every living animal and plant species on earth. Many are unique and have very important medical properties, which can be used in life saving treatments. More importantly for the planet, these forests can actually heal themselves by undertaking a process of expansion in areas where deforestation has occurred.
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Johan Eliasch, Gordon Brown’s deforestation advisor took a step towards joining the ranks of American politicians who don’t know what a national border and sovereignty means by claiming that the entirety of the Amazon rain forest could, and should, be purchased in order to protect it from Brazillian management. This could be accomplished for the bargain price of 50 billion dollars he claimed, sparking minor controversy in Brazil and an investigation into some 160,000 hectares of land he owns privately there.
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The Iwokrama Reserve in Guyana.
While we have to be pleased at the fact that global markets are beginning to understand the value of the (free) services provided by the planet's ecosystems, we have to wonder about this one. This is not an April Fools' joke: first the first time ever, a private equity firm has signed a contract for "rights to the ecosystem services produced by a rainforest reserve."
Causes of deforestation in the Amazon, 2000-2005 (source: mongabay.com)
We recently noted that new satellite imagery recently released by the Brazilian government revealed an unprecedented increase in the rate of deforestation in the Amazon, a disturbing piece of news just when it seemed that the cattle ranchers and soy farmers were beginning to be held accountable.
If there's hope for the forests of the Brazilian Amazon, it lies in sustainable forestry management programs like the one OSRA Group runs in Para state in the northeastern Amazon region, as described in a story by
( We would to thank everyone at Treehugger.com that contributed to this series. We are grateful for your insights and ideas.)
At Eco Preservation Society we advocate two common sense long-term goals:
Common Sense Goal #1: Within thirty years we must replace fossil fuels as an energy source.
Common Sense Goal #2: Over the next one hundred years we must sequestered the excess carbon that has been added to the atmosphere over the last one hundred years.
( We would to thank everyone at Treehugger.com that contributed to this series. We are grateful for your insights and ideas.)
At Eco Preservation Society we advocate two common sense long-term goals:
Common Sense Goal #1: Within thirty years we must replace fossil fuels as an energy source.
by Fred Morgan, January 2008
Eco World
A new revolution has begun. As with all changes of great magnitude, the status quo is resisting for as long as it can, but inevitably, the Resource Revolution will push aside the old way of life and bring in the new.
( We would like to invite all of those interested in this subject to join our ongoing discussion at Treehugger.com . )
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