Camino Verde News
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February 28, 2010
Camino Verde now accepts online donations via Paypal. We hope that this will make it easier and quicker to donate. Please tell us what you think: contact.
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February 28, 2010
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Torrential rains and flooding in the Peruvian departments of Cusco, Puno, Apurimac, and Ayacucho have left tens of thousands homeless. Camino Verde is offering support to our partners in the Cusco region delivering much-needed support goods to the victims of this devastating climatic event. Your tax-exempt donation will go directly and in full to the purchase of food, emergency shelter, and other vital goods. For further information on the disaster, please click here.
Our first relief campaign is focused on school supplies for newly homeless...
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January 31, 2010
Camino Verde is looking for a volunteer for short-term, part-time data entry work. Students are welcome. For further information, please contact us.
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December 31, 2009
In the richness of biodiversity of the Amazon basin, thousands of different species of trees make up the astonishingly varied body of the forest. For the people who call the Amazon home, certain key trees find their way into daily use and daily conversation as stand-outs in the vast sea of organisms. Whether for medicine, for timber, or for any one of countless other uses, these trees are woven into the fabric of mythic lore and quotidian utility and represent some of the forest’s dearest treasures.
But it is the very usefulness of these species that so often places them at...
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December 31, 2009
The rainy season is officially underway in Madre de Dios, Peru, and with it our planting season as well. Today, our first tree seedlings of this year´s planting campaign headed up the Tambopata River. Our goal for the campaign is 1000 trees of several different species, including spanish cedar (Cedrela sp.) and camphorated moena (Ocotea sp.) among many others.
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