The Amazon region is endangered. Cultures, forests, and wetlands vanish. Flora and
fauna become extinct. Amazon Fund contributes to the conservation of this amazing green world.

NEWS | AGENDA

News encourages or discourages

  • Evo Morales is helping a lot to prevent oil exploring or drilling in the Madidi region
    We apologize for ealier news. Thanks to our sources in Bolivia, soon more >>
  • Greenpeace: Deel Amazone beschermd tegen ontbossing
    Greenpeace.nl/press/releases/ontbossing-beschermd-illegaal
  • Poor Brazilians rejoice as loggers return to pillage the rainforest
    Twelve months ago, troops and police drove illegal loggers out of the Amazon in an effort to halt deforestation. A year later, the sawmills are starting to reopen - and unemployed locals couldn't be happier. Tom Phillips reports from Tailândia:
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/15/amazon-deforestation-brazil
  • On January 2009, Amazon Fund International was born
    The mission of Amazon Fund International is to work with indigenous people in support and development of initiatives committed to the conservation of nature and culture in the Amazon region.
    http://www.amazonfund.eu/org-isborn.html


AGENDA | NEWS

  • 7 March, Museum Naturalis in Leiden, the Netherlands
    Presentation Amazon Fund, Treasurer of the Amazon

    Come to the Dutch Museum Naturalis in Leiden at Saturday 7 March and travel along through the valuable Amazon. Learn about the urgency of an effective stategy to counter the many threats. Think along and join the Amazon Fund to preserve this valuable culture and Nature.

    Program

    13.00 h

    13.30 h

    14.00 h



    14.35 h

    14.55 h


    15.15 h






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    16.45 h
    17.30 h    		 Opening with coffee or tee in the museum restaurant

    Presentation Amazon Fund     by Erik Jongejan

    Lecture of Bas Haring, Professor, 'Public understanding of science', about the phenomenon biodiversity


    Break with     coffee or tea in the museum restaurant

    Presentation Foundation Biodiversity and Education (BEE) about their field study center in the rainforest of Peru, by Piet van Ipenburg

    Online     interview with Frans de Waal, Dutch psychologist, primatologist and ethologist. He is the Charles Howard Candler professor of Primate Behavior in the Emory University psychology department in Atlanta, Georgia, and director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center


    Interactieve discussie
    Forum:
    ► Foundation Tropical Forests
    (Rene Boot: Director Tropenbos International)
    ► Friends of the Earth
    (Anne van Schaik: Campaign leadr globalisation and environment)
    ► El Instituto Boliviano de Investigación Forestal (IBIF) - WUR
    (Dr. Marielos Peña Claros: Researcher, Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group)

    Informal meeting in the Museum restaurant
    End
    Entries though info@amazonfund.eu
    "The entree is free. The first 100 entrees are entitled to a free ticket for the Museum Naturalis on 7 maart. On 20 february we will let you know."

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