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WORLDWIDE
FOREST/BIODIVERSITY CAMPAIGN NEWS
Cyber
Jukebox Benefit for the Rainforests
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Conservation
12/25/00
OVERVIEW
& COMMENTARY
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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Title:
CYBER JUKEBOX BENEFIT FOR THE RAINFORESTS
Source:
Rainforest Information Centre ( http://forests.org/ric )
Box 368, Lismore, NSW 2480
61-2-66213294
rainforestinfo@ozemail.com.au
Date: December 22, 2000
Help
Save Rainforests!
Visit
www.rainforestjukebox.org
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
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