Help to Save the Rain Forest

YOU can help to save the rain forest. Yes, you! Schools are among the biggest contributors to the marvelous organizations that are working to preserve and protect rain forests all over the world. You, your teacher, your class, and your school can help to raise money to keep the rain forest alive.

What do you do? Choose any one of the programs listed below, and follow the link to learn exactly how you and your class can save a piece of the rain forest. Each of these organizations provides fascinating educational resources and exciting suggestions for ways you can help.

After you've sent in your class's contribution to the project you selected, have your teacher send me an email by May 10, 2007, noting which project you chose and the total amount of money your class raised.

The classes which make the greatest contributions to each project will be sent a signed copy of Looking for Jaguar as a small thank you for your gift - to orangutans, jaguars, sloths, tree frogs, tigers - to the earth, and to all of us.

Here are the wonderful projects from which you can choose:

1. The Nature Conservancy's Adopt-an-Acre program: log on to this site and type "adopt an acre" into the site's search engine to learn about the particular rain forest you'll be helping to protect. This project, which has protected more than 600,000 acres of rain forest, includes interesting educational materials and rain forest videos.

2. Rainforest Action Network's Protect-an-Acre project: offers a "Rainforests in the Classroom" program which includes curriculum supplements for grades 3-6 with lesson plan ideas, factsheets, and an animated feature called "Forests Family Forever." You will also receive monthly email newsletters which provide ways for classrooms to get involved.

3. The Rainforest Alliance's Adopt-A-Rainforest program: currently supports seven rain forest conservation projects. You can find on their site photos and stories of kids' successful fund-raising events. The Rainforest Alliance Learning Site offers a free web-based curriculum available for teachers.

Please participate. It's exciting, it's fun, and it couldn't be more important!

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