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Watch the trailer for the new documentary by the Eco Preservation Society "Saving The Mono Titi"

World Fair Trade Day is on May 10 and this year's theme is “Fair Trade + Ecology”. So, what's so green about fair trade? There are several reasons that fair trade products can be greener than others, but here is the main one.

It's the world's largest single buyer of condoms, purchasing more than a billion of the contraceptives in recent years to give away free as part of a national programme to combat Aids. Now the Brazilian government is to produce condoms using rubber collected from trees in the Amazon to help preserve the largest rainforest in the world.

Too many logos and not enough time? A brief guide to sustainability, animal welfare and fair trade certifications.

Representatives from Rainforest Action Network (RAN), Student Trade Justice Campaign, Food First and Grassroots International held a press conference today to call for a moratorium on all incentives and renewable fuels targets for agrofuels in federal energy legislation until standards can be developed to ensure that plant-based fuels such as biodiesel show significant environmental benefits over fossil fuels, and that they do not contribute to world hunger or human rights abuses.

Raz Godelnik of Eco-Libris writes on the bad news from Brazil about the increasing deforestation in the Amazon rain forest, the measures taken to fight it, and what he thinks should be added to these measures to make sure these precious trees will be kept alive.

Revitalizing. Clarifying. Heavenly. If you want some great Rainforest Treasure tea for free, then here's how to get it...

"Do you have Brazilian teakwood floors in your luxury home? How about Brazilian cherry cabinets? Any Brazilian mahogany items? Well, I certainly hope you are enjoying them. They might have come to you at a huge cost… well beyond what you paid for them."

A wildlife reserve earmarked for destruction to make way for biofuel crops has been saved after a study showed that it would earn more from eco-tourism

The slowing of Amazonian rainforest destruction in recent years may be about to end. Already there are signs that deforestation is gathering speed again. Deforestation in the states of Mato Grosso and Para is reportedly rising, with chainsaws and forest fires levelling thousands of hectares of pristine forest. Figures released last week by Brazil's space agency, INPE, show that between May and July of this year there was a 200% rise in deforestation in Mato Grosso.

This article states New York City's parks department is America's biggest destroyer of Amazonian rain forest and that Mayor Bloomberg isn't doing much to stop it.

It is estimated that orangutans could be extinct in the wild within 12 years - and your choice of bread, chips, lipstick or soap is the cause. The rainforests in Borneo and Sumatra and elsewhere are being cleared to make way for plantations growing palm oil, a cheap ubiquitous ingredient in many foods and cosmetics, and a major bio-diesel crop.

With amphibians facing population crashes around the world, the red-eyed tree frog has become a poster species for rainforest conservation. Watch the life cycle of tree frogs -- from birth, maturity, reproduction, and predation by insects, snakes, and caimans. Stunning, beautiful photos, but not for the weak-hearted!

View an amazing, interactive photo essay featuring pcitures of tree frogs!

The pace of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon fell by 25 percent in a recent 12-month period, according to recently released government figures.
Even so, some conservation groups claim the decrease is due to lower demand for crops that grow on cleared forest land, and not successful environmental policies.
Between July 2005 and July 2006, the amount of cleared forest fell to about 5,400 square miles (14,000 square kilometers), as compared to 11,681 miles (18,800 kilometers) cut in the same period between 2004 and 2005, according to government figures.