A Call for Rainforest Volunteers!

Did you know that tropical rainforest covers a mere 6% of the land surface of the planet, but generates nearly 40% of the oxygen you are breathing at this moment?

Did you know that tropical deforestation creates 20% of the carbon dioxide causing global climate change?  This is more carbon dioxide than all the cars, trucks, buses, airplanes, etc. emit into the atmosphere each year.

Did you know that poor people are largely responsible for the destruction of the tropical rainforest?

Did you know that Haitian cocoa and coffee farmers are conserving the last remaining 2% of the country's original forest cover?  This demonstrates that landowners will conserve their tropical rainforests if they receive an economic incentive to do so.  Oxygen farming provides a cash incentive from the sale of cocoa and vanilla.

Oxygen Farming is essentially paying vanilla and cocoa farmers for the conversion of waste carbon dioxide into clean oxygen.  We believe Oxygen Farming will not only stop the widespread destruction of the tropical rainforest, but will eventually lead to the rational management of this important resource.

Although this is a simple idea, it has one important limitation: monitoring thousands of hectares of tropical rainforest across the planet is logistically impossible without thousands of volunteers like you.  Join the Association and become a Rainforest Volunteer and help us monitor an oxygen farm of your choice all on your computer.

Learn more about becoming a Rainforest Volunteer by clicking on the Haiti or Costa Rica icons.

The Rainforest Vanilla Conservation Association believes it has an inexpensive way to save the tropical rainforests of the world.  Our Adopt-a-Tree Program pays farmers $450 per hectare (2.5 acres) for the purchase of the 4.5 metric tons of oxygen their rainforests produce annually; and directly competes with other sources of income available to them.  Each $5 contribution finances a 15-year reverse certificate of deposit that pays out $0.45 per tree annually or $450 for a hectare of trees.  Therefore your $5 contribution protects a tree for 15 years by purchasing the oxygen it produces during that time.

For more information on alternative sources of income for farmers in the tropics visit Time to Choose .  One economic alternative to deforestation is to plant vanilla and cocoa under the protective shade of the tropical rainforest.  Watch our YouTube video and see why saving the rainforest will also save your favorite flavors as well.  So help us save the tropical rainforest by adopting a tree today!