#amazonfires

📢 AMAZON RAINFOREST DONATION INITIATIVE📢

I have set up a page on my website providing links and information to various conservation groups fighting to protect the Amazon, the rights of indigenous peoples, and other conservation organizations.

For my own part, using this page, you can purchase my books in either paperback OR pdf-format ebook (for half cost), and I will donate $5 USD PER BOOK SOLD to any of the listed organizations.

My science-fiction books are thematically linked to environmental, geopolitical, and other relevant issues - especially upcoming Book 4, Belvun, being published October 2020.

Even if you don't buy a book, the links to each organization are provided for your own research and awareness and ability to donate directly. Please share this around to spread the message.

Link: Environmental Recovery Action

🔥 A U C T I O N 🔥

100% of proceeds goes to Amazon fire recovery. Bid now at: https://buff.ly/32otD2L

Auction ends in ~24 hours! (Sept 2nd 2pm US Central Time... Sept 2nd 21:00 Central Europe CEST... Sept 3rd 5pm Australia) Open worldwide, but bids are in Australian Dollars. Every little contribution counts, together we can make a difference. Feel free to spread the word! 🖤

The auction is held by https://www.instagram.com/artforamazonia/ where you will find lots more crafts and art up for auction! All the artists are donating their pieces (and covers shipping costs) so that you can get an original piece of art and your money will go directly to Amazon Aid via Amazon Conservation Team They are focused on restoration, recovery and training (for fire prevention etc) for indigenous communities, who have been without a doubt the best guardians of the land.

---- The Amazon rainforest produces over 20% of the oxygen in the world, and also, is home to huge numbers and wide varieties of plants, animals and indigenous people and it has been on fire for the past month. Fires in Amazonia are usually rare but happen due to deforestation which have, in Brazil, rapidly increased for the last few years since the economy plunged into a recession in 2014 and the country became more reliant on production of beef and soy, which are drivers of deforestation. Sinze Brazils new president took over in Jan 2019, he declared that Brazil’s vast protected lands were an obstacle to economic growth and promised to open them up to commercial exploitation and the government scaled back efforts to fight illegal logging, ranching and mining.

Lets come together and do what we can, together we can make a difference and contribute to helping those directly affected by the fires, which extends to helping everyone, considering what the indigenous communities do for the Amazon rainforest that we are all dependent on, wherever we live - we are all connected 🌞 ----

This pitfired ceramic pendant is directly inspired by (one of) the rock carvings in Näsåker Sweden that I visited earlier this year. The petroglyphs in the area are dated to somewhere between early stone age and late bronze age. Dimensions: 3.5 x 4.5 cm (ca 1.4 x 1.8 inches).

It is disheartening to know about this, and also brought my awareness to the fact that the government is using excuses to burn down the forest, with Norway pulling funds from amazon protection fund and increasing deforestation, the government is trying to exploit the resources in the rainforest for the oil companies. we need to understand the impact here. If we allow amazon to die, we cannot love for long, because we are all interconnected.

Please, respect for lives.