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Remember "The Story of Stuff"? "Meatrix"? We want to work with the same producers to create an edgy fun video to explain how sustainable, certified forestry can conserve biodiversity and help local communities? Please help by going here http://bit.ly/24HDSA and voting (all 3 of yr possible votes) for "Forests for People and Planet" We're in the running...need your support... thank you!

On Java, Indonesia's most densely populated island, forest communities have learned to make the most of their limited resources. For the 550 members of the KOSTAJASA cooperative this has meant using their small tracts of land to grow and harvest mahogany, teak and other tree species, to cultivate crops such as cloves, cassava, tobacco and corn and to raise livestock.

Cooperative members say that the ancestors of these family farmers deliberately planted mahogany for the benefit of their grandch… Continue

Maintenance of Mosquitia's forests is critical to the future of its communities and can also help slow climate change. The Rainforest Alliance is helping forestry cooperatives manage their lands sustainably and to develop their small forest enterprises through training in business planning and marketing.
In addition to our forestry and agriculture work, we're planning a carbon conservation project that will provide funding to the Honduran government and the local communities in exchange for carb… Continue

Buying certified wood products encourages sustainable logging in the Petén http://ow.ly/aL7e

http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/multimedia/ra_forestry.html