How to help the burning Amazon rainforest

Sustain member Friends of the Earth have some ideas of things to do to try and help the world’s largest rainforest.

Amazon rainforest. Photo credit: PexelsAmazon rainforest. Photo credit: Pexels

News Climate Change and Nature

Published: Monday 26 August 2019

Friends of the Earth suggest the following steps:

  1. Avoid products from companies that are behind the deforestation – be particularly watchful of beef and soy products from the Amazon.
  2. Under Brazil’s President Bolsonaro the rate of Amazon destruction and the threat to indigenous people has dramatically increased. Please sign this parliamentary petition to demand that the UN and EU sanction Brazil to halt increased deforestation of the Amazon.
  3. Getting together with others can be a useful outlet and a way to organise for change. You could start by looking to see if there’s a Climate Action group near you.

Climate Change and Nature: Sustain has taken a keen interest in the rapidly accumulating evidence about the effect of food and farming on climate change and nature, as scientific evidence emerges that our food system is a very significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss.

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