Scientists are discovering that the Amazon Rainforest plays an even more critical role than originally thought in helping the planet defend itself against global warming. About one-third of all the carbon on the earth's surface is stored in the Amazon, not just in the trees, but in the soil itself.
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For the past few years, researchers in the U.S. and Brazil have been unearthing startling information that the Amazon Rainforest was once the home of a sophisticated civilization that managed to use the vast natural resources of the rainforest without destroying it. The ancient wisdom of these early Amazonians could serve as a model of sustainability for the modern world, helping in the fight against Third World hunger as well as global warming.
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The RainTrust Foundation and the municipal government in China's Yichuan province have signed an agreement in principle to place 4 million hectares (10 million acres) of forest land under the protection of a RainTrust Conservation Agreement. Included among the 10 million acres are approximately 200,000 degraded acres to be reforested. And addition 2.5 million-acre reforestation project was also announced during the same trip by the RainTrust contingent.
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The RainTrust Foundation will help provide an extensive educational and training program to create environmentally and socially-responsible businesses in the impoverished Baixo Sul region of the Brazilian State of Bahia. The program, which will affect over 250,000 households in 11 municipalities, is the result of an historic sustainable development partnership agreement recently signed between the prestigious Odebrecht Foundation (Fundação Odebrecht ), the not-for-profit arm of the largest construction conglomerate in Brazil and RainTrust, LLC, the for-profit strategic partner of the RainTrust Foundation.
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