14 DAY TRIAL // Green group The Rainforest Trust is dead set on safeguarding about 6 million acres (roughly 2.4 million hectares) of the rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon.
It's carefully analyzed the situation and concluded, that the costs for this project would amount to $2.9 million (€2.12 million), give or take a few bucks.
Since neither of the members and supporters of this organization is a trained alchemist able to turn metals into gold, they've decided that the best way to raise said sum of money would be to launch a fundraising campaign.
The fundraising campaign will take place in several phases. Thus, the organization hopes that, by December 2014, they will have succeeded in raising about $646,000 (€472,509).
The remainder of the sum is to be raised over the course of the following years.
According to Mongabay, the environmentalists are confident that ordinary folks will be more than willing to get behind this project, and donate.
The same source details that the $2.9 million the group aims to raise will serve to create a buffer zone between two proposed natural reserves, i.e. White-Sands and Sierra del Divisor.
“We work closely with one of Peru’s most successful conservation organizations, CEDIA, to pursue this important initiative. Our largest fundraising campaign to date will save this important area forever,” said Paul Salaman, the current chief executive officer of Rainforest Trust.
“Our latest major rainforest preservation project shows that relatively small sums of money can have a powerful and lasting impact on threatened lands and wildlife,” he went on to say.
Once the two proposed reserves and the buffer zone between them are established, local animal species such as the red uakari monkey, jaguars, the South American tapir and the Goeldi’s monkey will no longer have to worry about the fact that activities such as road construction, illegal logging, oil and gas development or mining will disrupt their slumber and leave them homeless.