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Sweden's Roland Tiensuu, 12, thinks that preserving the earth is too important to be left to grownups. Three years ago, the boy learned from his teacher, Eha Kern (who shares the Goldman with him), about the relentless destruction of the rain forests in Latin America. Tiensuu was worried that by the time he and his classmates grew up, there would be no rain forests left to save. "I thought, 'There must be something we can do,' " he recalls. "I saw a television program where people planted trees to replace some of those that had been cut down...
Under Kern's energetic guidance, Tiensuu and the rest of the class organized a bake sale in their small village of Fagervik and raised enough money to buy four hectares (10 acres) of rain forest in Costa Rica's spectacular Monteverde Reserve. Their campaign gave birth to Barnens Regnskog, or the Children's Rain Forest, a nonprofit organization whose young supporters in several thousand Swedish schools have bought 7,000 hectares (17,300 acres) of jungle with the $1.5 million they have raised so far. Schoolchildren in Germany, Japan and the U.S. have followed suit. In appreciation, the Monteverde Conservation...
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