Comments on: Climate, Trees, and People in the Peruvian Amazon: Toward a Sustained Rainforest Movement http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/06/17/climate-trees-and-people-in-the-peruvian-amazon-toward-a-sustained-rainforest-movement/ Dispatches from the Youth Climate Movement Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:03:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Mary Fortney http://itsgettinghotinhere.org/2008/06/17/climate-trees-and-people-in-the-peruvian-amazon-toward-a-sustained-rainforest-movement/#comment-65267 Mary Fortney Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:35:45 +0000 http://itsgettinghotinhere.wordpress.com/?p=4878#comment-65267 I enjoyed reading your article. I have spent every summer in Iquitos for the last seven years and have seen the river getting lower. One small way that I have found to help is to join the Adopt-A-School Program which provides teaching and learning supplies to the small schools along the river outside of Iquitos. The teachers who work in these schools also attend workshops to learn ways that they can protect their rain forest home. They then pass these ideas on to their students. Hopefully, armed with this knowledge, the people of these small villages will protest when big companies want to come and start chopping down trees. I enjoyed reading your article.

I have spent every summer in Iquitos for the last seven years and have seen the river getting lower.

One small way that I have found to help is to join the Adopt-A-School Program which provides teaching and learning supplies to the small schools along the river outside of Iquitos. The teachers who work in these schools also attend workshops to learn ways that they can protect their rain forest home. They then pass these ideas on to their students. Hopefully, armed with this knowledge, the people of these small villages will protest when big companies want to come and start chopping down trees.

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