ENSURING A SUSTAINABLE FOREST FUTURE

Forests.org's Annual Appeal For Donations

November 25, 2001

Dear forest conservation friends and colleagues,

Happy Holidays! It is time for Forests.org's annual fund-raising

drive. I am asking you for a donation to enable the continuation of

our important work. The future of these efforts depends entirely

upon your generosity. You can make a gift at

http://forests.org/donate/.

Please, at this critical juncture for the World's forests, choose to

support Forests.org. We need to raise several thousand dollars over

the next months to meet our immediate needs. It is important that

this service not be taken for granted.

Thanks to your continued dependable support, Forests.org has had a

grand year. The Forest Conservation Portal at http://forests.org/

and the Climate Ark at http://www.climateark.org/ are the Internet's

premier forest and climate resources. We have completed the first

scientifically constructed evaluation of our efforts. Some 85% of

those subscribing to this email list and using the web site are

satisfied with the efforts, and over 50% highly so. Some 7.5 million

web pages and email messages were networked over the past year.

Users come from over five-dozen countries.

Together we have learned together - and at times spoken with one

voice - contributing over the past year to forest conservation

victories in Brazil, Papua New Guinea, America, Canada, Chile and

elsewhere. Simply, there is no more effective, extensive or

efficient forest conservation network in existence.

Forests.org has quite a year before us. We intend to unveil three

new sites - the "Environmental Sustainability Portal", "State of the

Rainforests" and the "American Forest Conservation Portal". As I

complete my Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin, new institutional

arrangements will be implemented to sustain and enhance the efforts.

Without a successful end of the year fund-raising drive, the future

of these efforts is uncertain. There are several ways that you

and/or your organization can ensure this educational campaign

continues:

1) Individual donations can be made using a credit card on our

secure web site donation page at http://forests.org/donate/. Contact

us for information to send checks by post.

2) Frequently these appeals identify small grant opportunities for

Forests.org. Please contact us should your organization be able to

make a grant, or have leads on grant application opportunities.

3) Our staff consists of highly trained conservation biologists and

computer technicians. Frequently we do consultancies for other

groups in the areas of web design, conservation planning, ecological

database design and GIS mapping. Please let us know of consulting

opportunities that would indirectly support Forests.org's efforts.

Together we can will global forest sustainability into being. Thank

you very much for your continued support. We look forward to hearing

from you.

Sincerely,

Glen Barry, M.S., Ph.D.(abd)

President

Forests.org, Inc.

Phone - +1 608 288 8102

Email - gbarry@forests.org