Cyber Jukebox Benefit for the Rainforests
12/25/00
OVERVIEW & COMMENTARY
by Forests.org
In the past I have been loath to support any "click here to save the rainforest sites". The problems facing the World's ancient forests are too complex to believe that anything short of fundamental changes in human's interactions with forests will make a difference. But this was before Rainforest Information Centre (RIC) unveiled their creative "Cyber Jukebox". Only such a distinguished group such as RIC, lead by deep ecology guru John Seed, has the credibility to link "clicking here" with on the ground rainforest conservation. RIC was essentially the first rainforest activist group ever formed - from which much of the inspiration for the current modern rainforest conservation movement comes. Please take the time to visit their Rainforest Jukebox at http://www.rainforestjukebox.org/ . By visiting, you can enjoy dozens of free songs by Australia's leading musicians; and by doing so sponsors make donations to save rainforests. This is THE way you can save rainforests merely by visiting an Internet site.
g.b.
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CYBER JUKEBOX BENEFIT FOR THE RAINFORESTS
Rainforest Information Centre ( http://forests.org/ric ) Box 368, Lismore, NSW 2480 61-2-66213294
rainforestinfo@ozemail.com.au
December 22, 2000
Help Save Rainforests!
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Every click counts.
A rainforest benefit concert for Ecuador's jungle: the monkeys, dolphins, jaguars, mighty trees & indigenous people.
PRESS RELEASE
CYBER JUKEBOX BENEFIT FOR THE RAINFORESTS
Some of Australia's finest musicians have donated their songs to help save the rainforests.
At www.rainforestjukebox.org, you can hear 40 tracks of music stream forth to benefit Ecuador's jungle: the monkeys, dolphins, jaguars, mighty trees & indigenous people.
Over 60 Australian artists have contributed to the Rainforest Jukebox including Midnight Oil, Jebediah, Cruel Sea, Nancy Vandal, Powderfinger, Ruby Hunter, Archie Roach, The Red Eyed Frogs, Vince Jones, diana Ah naid, Superjesus, Skunk Hour, Stiff Gins, The Whitlams Penelope Swales. Environmental musicians from Northern NSW complete the concert with songs for the trees, animals and indigenous peoples and a shining future for the Earth.
Proceeds from this benefit support rainforest conservation projects in Ecuador initiated and run by Australian volunteers from the Lismore-based Rainforest Information Centre.
John Seed, who founded the Rainforest Information Centre in 1981 said:
"The rainforests are the womb of life. They are home to half of the world's ten million species of plants and animals. Authorities estimate that more than a million species will become extinct in the next 20 years - an average of perhaps 200 species each day. Satellite photos show that unless we stem the relentless tide of destruction, less than a single human lifetime remains before we will see the utter annihilation of the rainforests - except for those areas that we manage to protect in the meantime. We are the last human generation to be able to do anything about this."
"Merely by visiting www.rainforestjukebox.org, web surfers at tract a donation from sponsors which buys 2 square feet of threatened rainforest and protects monkeys, jaguars and the pink Amazon River dolphin."
The Rainforest Jukebox benefit is sponsored by Chaos Music, Juice Magazine, Thursday Plantations, Avant Card, Ozemail and Web Central.
A 1400 word article about this project is available at www.rainforestjukebox/network/media.html. This article goes into detail about the plight of the rainforests, the four conservation projects in Ecuador supported by this benefit and the history of the Rainforest Information Centre - the first organisation in the world to devote itself to rainforest conservation over 20 years ago.
Stunning photos of Ecuadorian forests and wildlife are available from www.rainforestjukebox/network/media.html
Also at this url are short interviews with musicians Peter Garrett, Diana Ah Naid and Vince Jones about musicians and the conservation of nature.
Contact John Seed or Ruth Rosenhek
61 2 66213294, 61 2 66218505, johnseed@ozemail.com.au