Why help?

The Amazon is a vast region that spans across eight rapidly developing countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, an overseas territory of France.
The landscape contains:

·         One in ten known species on Earth

·         1.4 billion acres of dense forests, half of the planet's remaining tropical forests

·         4,100 miles of winding rivers

·         2.6 million square miles in the Amazon basin, about 40 percent of South America

There is a clear link between the health of the Amazon and the health of the planet. The rain forests, which contain 90-140 billion metric tons of carbon, help stabilize local and global climate. Deforestation may release significant amounts of this carbon, which could have catastrophic consequences around the world.

The institutes

Many institutes were created to help the Amazon rainforest. The mission of them is protect the rainforest, talk to the world that for have a good life you have to know live in harmony with the nature in which he lives,  protect the animals in extinction, train human means for the development of the Amazon.

The institutes and the ideas are:

AMPA - rescue and rehabilitation of manatees

INPA - Increasing responsibility in the task of producing knowledge, establishing a commitment to sustainable development

Instituto Mamirauá - They want to protect the flooded forests  and protect the mantees and the porpoises.

Instituto Chico Mendes - Contribute to a more just society and healthy revealing the concepts of natures. Acting together with several programs for people considering the human being as great environmental intervenor.

SOS Mata Atlântica - The responsibility is the preservation of society, with actions taken on their daily.

Greenpeace (in Amazon) - Greenpeace is campaigning for an end to deforestation in the Amazon by 2015 and globally by 2020.

WWF in the Amazon - WWF-Brazil is a Brazilian NGO, participant and an international network committed to nature conservation within the Brazilian social and economic context.