Amazon adventures - new book on the word’s greatest rainforest
Date: 18/04/2008
Rainforests are home to an estimated 50 million indigenous forest peoples,more species of plants and animals than all of the earth’s other ecosystems combined, and they play an essential role in fighting climate change. So it’s not surprising that everyone wants a piece of them.
A new book by John Hemming, former director of the Royal Geographic Society, describes the passionate struggles that have taken place in order to utilise, protect and understand the word’s greatest expanse of tropical rainforest.
In Tree of Rivers Hemming’s recalls the adventures and misadventures down the centuries of the explorers, missionaries, indigenous, Indians, naturalists, rubber barons, scientists, anthropologists, archaeologists, political extremists, prospectors and many more, who have been in thrall to the Amazon.
RFUK has one copy of Tree of Rivers to give away. All you have to do is tell us whether the following statement is true or false.
“Deforestation is responsible for more Co2 emissions than all the trains, planes and automobiles in the world.”
Email the answer plus your name and postal address to danielm@rainforest.com.
The closing date is 29 April. The first valid correct entry drawn at random will be the winner.
Find out more about Tree of Rivers here.
A new book by John Hemming, former director of the Royal Geographic Society, describes the passionate struggles that have taken place in order to utilise, protect and understand the word’s greatest expanse of tropical rainforest.
In Tree of Rivers Hemming’s recalls the adventures and misadventures down the centuries of the explorers, missionaries, indigenous, Indians, naturalists, rubber barons, scientists, anthropologists, archaeologists, political extremists, prospectors and many more, who have been in thrall to the Amazon.
RFUK has one copy of Tree of Rivers to give away. All you have to do is tell us whether the following statement is true or false.
“Deforestation is responsible for more Co2 emissions than all the trains, planes and automobiles in the world.”
Email the answer plus your name and postal address to danielm@rainforest.com.
The closing date is 29 April. The first valid correct entry drawn at random will be the winner.
Find out more about Tree of Rivers here.
