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RAINFOREST PROTECTION<\/h1>Preserving living diversity, improving living conditions & promoting sustainability<\/span>
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The tropical rainforests
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They stabilize the climate and regulate the global water balance. They are the source of food, medicine, ideas and raw materials that have become an integral part of our lives today. They are the basis of existence and home to millions of people. Despite this, the destruction of these unique habitats continues unabated. Every year, around 15 million hectares of tropical forest are irretrievably destroyed. With these forests, up to 70 species disappear forever from the library of life every day - many of them before we even know of their existence [1].<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n

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The ongoing destruction of tropical forests is responsible for around one ninth of man-made climate-damaging CO\u2082<\/span> emissions worldwide[2]<\/sup>.<\/h2>\n

Tropica Verde has been committed to the preservation of the world's tropical rainforests since 1989 and thus makes a direct contribution to climate protection.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n

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Forest protection is climate protection<\/h2>\n

Tropica Verde supports specific nature and species conservation projects in Costa Rica with donations and membership fees. The protected and reforested forests provide a habitat for endangered animals and plants and secure the drinking water supply for an entire region.<\/p>\n

The conservation of this diverse and irreplaceable natural wealth is one of the most pressing environmental problems of our time. We all have to do something about the ongoing destruction.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n

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Forest protection is climate protection!<\/h2>\n

Tropica Verde supports specific nature and species conservation projects in Costa Rica with donations and membership fees. The protected and reforested forests provide a habitat for endangered animals and plants and secure the drinking water supply for an entire region.<\/p>\n

The conservation of this diverse and irreplaceable natural wealth is one of the most pressing environmental problems of our time. We all have to do something about the ongoing destruction.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n

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When we protect the rainforest, we also protect its function as a CO\u2082<\/span> reservoir. The plants in the rainforest absorb CO\u2082<\/span> and produce sugar through photosynthesis to cover their energy requirements. The carbon is stored in the plant material and thus removed from the atmosphere. If the forests are cleared and burned, this CO\u2082<\/span> is released again. This increases the greenhouse effect and temperatures on earth rise. [3]<\/p>\n

It is therefore extremely important to protect existing forests in order to preserve them as CO\u2082<\/span> reservoirs! The reforestation of former forest areas also binds CO\u2082<\/span> from the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

A hectare of 60-year-old tropical rainforest binds around 590 tons of CO\u2082<\/span> over the course of its lifetime and around 10 tons of CO\u2082<\/span> every year thereafter [4]. Old, mature trees bind much more CO\u2082<\/span> per year than young trees. Tropica Verde supports both: on the one hand, we protect original primary forests, some of which have trees over 100 years old, such as the giant kapok trees. On the other hand, we plant young trees in mixed cultivation where necessary. For us, targeted means that we only reforest with locally occurring tree species in special buffer zones or forest-connecting biocorridors, which also expand the habitat of the animals. In this way, our protected areas help to stabilize the climate.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n