Stopping deforestation is vital if we are to combat climate change, given that the destruction of the rainforests releases more CO2 than all the world’s cars, planes and ships put together. Rainforests also store one-fifth of the world’s man-made emissions.
You can add your voice to those putting rainforests at the heart of the climate change debate by supporting The Prince’s Rainforests Project at
In the past 50 years a third of the world’s rainforests have been chopped down and burned. At the current rate of clearance, tropical rainforests may be gone by 2050. Tropical deforestation amounts to 13 million hectares lost every year. That’s the equivalent of about 8.5 million football pitches a year. Or 23,484 pitches a day. Shocking L
http://www.rainforestsos.org/signup1. Enjoy the You Tube video, too, and keep an eye out for the frogs!
The number of signatories will be shared with The Prince’s Rainforests Project’s partnership of governments, businesses and non-profit organisations in December at the time of the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen.
Sign up and help create a climate for change. Adding your name costs nothing, but without it, deforestation might just cost us the earth.