What can you/we do?

Unless you're a billionaire (please contact me), there is not much you can do - or? Oh no, even though you might not be Bill Gates (at least that's what I think. If you are, do contact me!) there is in fact a lot you can do to help. Here a short list:

1) spreading the message:
- you can make similar websites like this, especially if you speak any other languages. I for example speak German, so I made a German site like this with the exact same information, just in German (you can find the link to this to the right). If you want to, feel free to translate my text into any language you can speak and make websites like this. It's not about copyright, but about sending a message.
- make your friends and relatives aware of the problem
- you can even make and hand out leaflets
- try to contact locals of the region both to make them aware of the threat, and to create concepts of saving the forest together with them
- if in any way possible, try to get powerful people like polititians, celebrities and Bill Gates on (y)our side. If they fight along with us, we have half won already

2) personal:
- only buy wood of which you are sure it is not from any primeval forest. One way to buy 100% calm, is to buy wood with the FSC mark (Forest Stewartship Council), as they only give their mark to environmentally friendly logged wood. It is more expensive because of this of course, but it would pay off in the longrun if everybody bought their wood only - someone has to start anyway!
- paper use: several very important points
1) buy recycled paper
2) write and print on the back of each page used
3) use old paper with an empty back page as scrap paper (e.g. you can cut it into smaller pieces and jot down your to-do-list or notes for a presentation on them)
- lessen your beef consumption: besides the fact that cows produce thousands of tons of methane, one of the greenhouse gases, 60% of the Amazon are being hacked down due to beef production!
- support groups like Greenpeace, WWF and Robin Wood
- (more or less obvious) do not collect any rare creatures from the tropics (or elsewhere!), especially if it is unclear where they were retrieved, no matter how strong the urge to have them is