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Bangkok bash. Thailand's top rock band, the Carabao, headlines the "We Love the Forest" concert on April...
...Forest transplant. On Canada's Vancouver Island, Boy Scouts and others will remove trees from an old forest that is about to be cut down and replant them 3.2 km (2 miles) away in an area that has already been cleared of vegetation...
...skeet shooting and wally ball (a version of volleyball played on a handball court). Plimpton was surprised that there were no interruptions or calls all weekend -- until their tennis game. "He threw the ball up to serve and the phone rang -- a very odd thing to hear in a forest." The Commander in Chief strode over, picked it up, listened for a moment, and looked at Plimpton. "It's for you," he said...
What can one boy or girl do to preserve the world's rain forests? Ask Jiro Nakayama. He's the twelve-year-old leader of a band of schoolchildren in Nagano, Japan, who have already saved 40 acres of forest land in Costa Rica. On their way to and from school, they collect old newspapers and empty aluminum cans for sale to a recycling plant at 63 cents per kg. The proceeds, augmented by donations from parents and neighbors, are sent to the International Children's Rainforest Program, which buys and preserves virgin parkland at the rate...
...program began in Sweden, where some 100,000 schoolchildren, helped by matching government grants, have been able to buy 160,000 acres of Costa Rican forest. A similar venture affiliated with the Nature Conservancy has enlisted thousands of U.S. students to preserve 110,000 acres of tropical parkland in Belize. Among the participants: a class of autistic children in the Bronx who cashed in enough cans to buy an acre of species-rich jungle...