Junior Scientists Program now on screen

You've read about our Junior Scientist project that brings local school children to Iracambi to learn about monitoring forests and streams - &feature=youtu.be">here it is on screen, thanks to volunteer film maker Rich Wheat. The program is mainly funded by your on-line donations through Global Giving. In the last school year, over a hundred school children came to learn scientific methods of monitoring water and forests and gain awareness of climate change issues. This school year, we'll have 150 children.  Other partners are the Vernier Coroporation, who donated equipment, and Partners of the Americas who supplemented the funding. Thanks to all of you!

Iracambi subscribes to international code of conduct

Well, we've always had an unoffical code of conduct, and now we are thrilled to be able to adopt the WANGO code of ethics and conduct for international NGOs. Relax, it may sound like the name of a new kind of smoothie, but these guys are right up there at the UN. We're delighted to be in board, and here's where you can check it out!       

Sustainable Development Course

In August 2012, Iracambi will offer a two week course giving an introduction to Sustainable Development. It will focus on the issues of sustainable development in areas of fragile environments: it is aimed to help undergraduates studying environmental science, international studies, economic development, and more. For more details, download the flyer.

Need a last minute gift?

Follow the link to buy a Gift Card in for a colleague, friend or relative, and give the gift of knowledge. All you have to do is hit the little widget on the right hand side of the page and you'll be benefiting our star environmental education program: Junior Scientists @ Iracambi. And if you do it before the end of the year your gift will make us eligible for an award bonus as well. 

How easy is that? 

http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/brazils-junior-scientists-restore-rainforest-iracambi/?show-gift

The Future of the Forest is Now

Calling all Iracambistas! The long cherished project to save threatened stretches of rainforest is up and running!

Thanks to a generous grant from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature  (Netherlands), Iracambi is now able to buy a vitally important stretch of forest land linking the State Park with other areas under conservation.

This is WONDERFUL and something we've been hoping to do for years. So it's Christmas and birthday all rolled into one, and when the really heavy rain stops (and we shouldn't be complaining, after all we are a rainforest) we'll be up there and we'll post some pictures to show you all. And this forest patch will become a forest nature reserve in the name of the Iracambi NGO and will become a part of the patchwork of forest areas to be preserved forever. How cool is that?