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C It s a fact: Tropical rainforests are home to more kinds of plants and animals than anywhere else on Earth Mad about... tropical rainforests Rainforest solutions Re-using items as many times as you can will help protect the environment. This is because companies will not need to collect as much of the world’s precious wood, metals and other materials to make new things. Forests can be used without destroying the environment. This is called sustainable forest management. This protects the world’s forests and still allows forest dwellers to make a living. Look for the FSC logo, it will tell you that the wood used is from a well- managed forest. Friends of the Earth 26-28 Underwood Street, London N1 7JQ Tel: 020 7490 1555 Fax: 020 7490 0881 Email: [email protected] Website: www.foe.co.uk Friends of the Earth Trust company number 1533942, registered charity number 281681 C Printed on paper made from 100 per cent post-consumer waste Editor: Jocelyn Horton Design: [email protected] Illustration: Andrew Peters Friends of the Earth inspires solutions to environmental problems, which make life better for people Funded by E305 January 2003 It s a fact: I f all the UK’s office workers used one less staple a day (byre-using a paper clip) 120 tonnes of steel would be saved each year Why not read other leaflets in the Mad about... series? For details telephone 020 7490 1555 or write to: Publications Despatch, Friends of the Earth, 56-58 Alma Street, Luton LU1 2PH Youth and Education Programme Friends of the Earth’s Youth and Education Programme provides a range of publications exploring sustainable development, citizenship and environmental issues, designed to be used within a class, youth groups or by individual young people.

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CIt�s a fact:Tropical rainforests arehome to more kinds ofplants and animals thananywhere else on Earth

Mad about...tropicalrainforests

Rainforest solutionsRe-using items as many times as you can will help protectthe environment. This isbecause companies will notneed to collect as much of theworld’s precious wood, metalsand other materials to makenew things.

Forests can be used withoutdestroying the environment.This is called sustainable forestmanagement. This protects theworld’s forests and still allowsforest dwellers to make a living.Look for the FSClogo, it will tell youthat the wood usedis from a well-managed forest.

Friends of the Earth 26-28 Underwood Street, London N1 7JQTel: 020 7490 1555 Fax: 020 7490 0881 Email: [email protected] Website: www.foe.co.ukFriends of the Earth Trust company number 1533942, registered charity number 281681C Printed on paper made from 100 per cent post-consumer waste

Editor: Jocelyn HortonDesign: [email protected]: Andrew Peters

Friends of the Earth inspires solutions to environmental problems, which make life better for people

Funded by

E305 January 2003

It�s a fact:If all the UK’s office workersused one less staple a day(by re-using a paper clip) 120 tonnes of steel would be saved each year

Why not read other leaflets in the Mad about... series?For details telephone 020 7490 1555 or write to:Publications Despatch, Friends of the Earth,56-58 Alma Street, Luton LU1 2PHYouth and Education Programme

Friends of the Earth’s Youth and Education Programme providesa range of publications exploring sustainable development,citizenship and environmental issues, designed to be used withina class, youth groups or by individual young people.

Farming and industry

Rainforest that has taken yearsto develop can be destroyedforever by people in days.Demands from richer countriesmean that trees are choppeddown for their wood and theland dug up for minerals suchas aluminium and gold.Large farms, timber-loggingand mining companies eat upthe forests and threaten thehomes and lives of allrainforest peoples.

Start cutting back

Use less paper at homeand at school and makesure it’s recycled paper.Write on both sides of asheet and encourage yourschool to set up a recyclingscheme.

Choose items that can beused again and again.Re-usable things don’t useup the Earth’s preciousresources.

Ask your family to recycleunwanted wood. If yourlocal council doesn’t run arecycling scheme ask it toset one up.

Shop wisely

When buying somethingnew, especially woodenproducts, choose recycledor buy second-hand.

Tell everyone you know tobuy wooden goods only ifthey have the ForestStewardship Council (FSC)logo (see over).

Avoid buying throwawaypaper products like cups,plates and kitchen roll.

Help stop therainforest chopAre you mad

about rainforests?The rainforests contain over half of all wildplants and animals on the planet. But theforests and their wildlife are disappearing fast

Important trees

When loggers chop down thetrees, the soil can no longerhold on to the tree roots.Rainwater can easily wash thesoil away. No soil means that anew forest finds it hard to grow in the same place again. Andeven if new trees do grow it’llnever be as rich in wildlifeagain. Many plants andanimals do not survive withoutthe rainforest.

Rainforest people

Many people live on rainforestland using its precious richessuch as wood and foodeveryday. But tribal people, nutgatherers and rubber tappershave learnt how to take all thatthey need without destroyingthe environment.

It�s a fact:In 1900, Brazil had1,000,000 (onemillion) tribalpeople.Today,there are fewerthan 200,000

Mad about... tropical rainforestsLogging and mining damage therainforest habitat, threatening thehomes of many tribal people.

Much of the rainforesthas been cleared toprovide pasture forcattle to graze.

Destroying rainforests harmswildlife. The orang-utan,spider monkey and thescarlet macaw are now allendangered creatures.

Help save therainforest.

Toucans can�t survive without

trees!

Many of ourfavourite foodsfirst came fromthe rainforest.

People have lived in the rainforests for thousands of years,

and many different tribes still live there.

Only use or buyanything made fromtropical timber if ithas the FSC logo.This will help save the rainforest.