As we reported at the beginning of our series of articles, the terra preta is taken from the Amazon rain forest. There the Indians had already begun several thousand years ago, the forest soil to enrich specifically with charcoal and other materials, thus achieving an enormous increase in soil fertility.
This jungle is now, however, threatened by the destruction and will require significant Efforts to protect him from. For in addition to the heritage of terra preta of the rain forest is very important for the climate of our planet: experts call him as a "green lung" of the earth.
, the destruction of the rain forest on a large scale in front of him, every minute is being cleared forest of the area of two football fields, partly to arable land for local people to create, for the most part but for arable and pasture land, which the meat production for export . serve Another impact is the production of tropical timber, also for export. So we are consumers in developed countries not entirely innocent of this development. With the many kinds of forest plant and animal species will be lost forever.
Figure: After the destruction of the forest is removed, the soil erosion and swept away.
If you know that a number of precursors for drugs derived from such plants and most probably many drugs are so far undiscovered, should be a personal interest in the preservation of the rainforest have.
For some years there are organizations that collect donations to buy then rain forest to him specifically brought under protection. Now it is for various reasons not everyone's cup of tea, money regularly for superfluous to such purposes. Yet recently, there is the possibility, even without its own financial cost a significant contribution to the protection of the rainforest to make.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has launched namely with the Internet search engine Yahoo and Bing a new search engine to life, the profits to 80% for the protection of the rainforest can be used. Another advantage of the search engine is that the current that is needed for operating the server, eco-current, is therefore largely CO2-free produce.
The name of this new search engine is www.ecosia.de . On the relevant internet pages you will find many other information so that we this point without it, display, many more details. It should be mentioned
still that Ecosia not like some other search engines creates user profiles, and sells personal data for marketing purposes on. Whoever places great importance on the protection of personal data in this search engine, well served.
Everyone who deals with the Internet can therefore make its own valuable contribution to the protection of the rainforest. Commercial vendors pay namely that their websites get in a good search engine placement. Sponsored links will also appear in advertisements, which are also subject to charges. The man replies, search engine revenue go for the larger of them in the billions.
What could be more than a part of such revenues be used specifically for the protection of the rain forest? The money goes into a project of the WWF in Juruena National Park in the Amazon. For gerademal 5 € / $ 7.50 where you can protect a whole acres of rain forest. Per query thus almost 2 inches of rain forest are protected. Who wants
can embed the search engine in its Web browser. Then appears in the footer of each, how many square feet of rainforest have been protected by his personal activities so far and how many square feet could be protected by the activity of all users so far. Currently there are about 1 million square meters per day. It would be nice if we could help this article also mean that it will soon be considerably more.
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