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Protecting Lands - Sustaining Lives
NewsJan 2010
Rainforest Fund's 21st Birthday Celebration Benefit Concert
December 1,2009 Double Your Impact: Donate before December 31 and the Rainforest Foundation Board will match your gift! Learn more November 22, 2009 Sting reunites with Raoni,twenty years later
Twenty years ago, Sting went into the Xingu region of Brazil for the first time. He observed the deforestation of the Amazon first-hand, seeing vast stretches of barren land that had once been forest.He had the intuition then that the forest was important, and that those who lived there would best protect it.Today, scientists are recognizing that intuition as true, especially in the context of global warming.Twenty years ago, Sting took Raoni, a Kayapo leader in the Xingu, on stage with him to give him a platform from which to speak and an audience to listen. Today, he is doing the same thing.
Sunday morning, Sting and Raoni met again for the first time in ten years.RFUS Program Director Christine Halvorson was there, to provide support and to help translate. Sting and Raoni reviewed maps of the Xingu River Basin, recalling the international campaign they spearheaded together 20 years ago. With support from the Rainforest Foundation that campaign resulted in the demarcation of the Mengkragnoti Indigenous Area - a 19,000 square mile area and home to the Mengragnoti,a sub-group of the Kayapo. The maps today clearly show the indigenous areas in the region as islands of green, with a wave of deforestation advancing all around them. Continued
Yanomami hit by swine fluNovember 5, 2009 An outbreak among the isolated tribes of the Amazon could spread among the indigenous population very quickly and kill many. The Rainforest Foundation has long supported the Yanomami,and is currently supporting a training program for leaders of the Yanomami Association, Hutukara. Read more about Hutukara and the Yanomami.
Indian political awakening stirs Latin America By FRANK BAJAK (AP) –
October 1, 2009 Marcio Santilli, one of the founders of ISA,(longstanding partner of the Rainforest Foundation network) was named an "environmental hero" of the year by Time Magazine
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