#amazonia fire

I've seen others doing this to help raise money for the Amazon Rainforest & wanted to give it a try. If you donate $10+ to any of the groups in this thread (x) , DM me your donation receipt & I will sketch you a Kingdom Hearts character or an animal at your request.

For now I'll open 10 slots just to see how it goes.  For every $10 donated, 1 character/animal can be requested (So, $20 = up to 2 characters/animals). I will try to complete each sketch within a week. Some examples of my sketches:

EASY things you can do!

Sign these petitions:

Brazil: End the Amazon apocalypse! on Avaaz

Stop the burning of the Amazon rainforest! on change.org

Prevent deforestation and exploitation of the Amazon! (translated title) on change.org

Donate any amount to these charities:

Edit: apparently it’s better to donate to indigenous organisations instead, see this post for some recommendations

I’ll keep these here as extras, anyway:

SOS Amazônia

Amazon Watch

The Rainforest Alliance

Survival International

Rainforest Concern

Spread the word:

Reblog/retweet posts with info on the fire and ways to help

Make your own posts (no matter how small!) with relevant tags to get/keep the topic trending

Tell friends, family, and anyone else you know - specifically, you can tell them about the things they can do, like the things on this list

Other things you can do:

Use Ecosia, which plants trees when you search, instead of google

Use Ecosia to find out more info about the situation, and more ways to help - note: searching just “Amazon fire(s)” will bring up mainly Amazon’s Firestick/TV. Be creative with your searches, or specify “amazon rainforest fires” for clarity.

If you can, cut down on meat - especially beef. A big reason why this is happening is to clear space for either cattle ranches or livestock feed crops like soy.

If you can, boycott certain brands that are involved/benefitting from Amazon rainforest clearance and logging - I encourage you to do your own research, but some of them include Unilever, PepsiCo, and Nestlé.

"It is useless for man to conquer the Moon, if he then ends up losing the Earth"

From the article:

‘More than 9,000 people were evacuated as flames spread this week across Spain’s Canary Islands. Wildfires also ignited this week in Alaska. Denmark dispatched firefighters to Greenland to control fires burning close to population centers. Major wildfires have also burned through Siberia, and environmental activists expect them to set a new record for burn area in Russia by the end of the season.

‘Part of the reason for these recent fires is the heat. This past July was the hottest July on record. Many parts of Europe shattered heat records: France, Germany, Poland, Spain, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom. That heat dried out vegetation and left huge swaths of forests and grasslands primed to ignite.

‘As the climate changes, periods of extreme heat will get longer, more frequent, and more intense. Years of actively suppressing natural fires have allowed trees, grasses, and shrubs to accumulate at unnatural levels in many parts of the world. Deforestation has disrupted the natural water cycle in some regions, causing the remaining undergrowth to dry out. And as people build their homes closer to wildlands, the likelihood of setting off an inferno will only rise.’

Wildfires are spreading through the world at an alarming rate, and for the most part, we’re just sitting back and watching as our planet gets destroyed by a crisis of our own making.

Some various resources, including information about some of the wildfires happening around the world, safety tips, and how you can help:

Wildfire prevention & safety tips (National Geographic)

Germany wildfire increase (DW news, June 22)

Hawaii wildfire (The Guardian, July 12)

Iraqi wildfires (National Geographic, July 22)

Arctic wildfires (The Guardian, August 12)

Gran Canaria wildfire (The Guardian, August 19)

Amazonia wildfire (National Geographic, August 21)

Amazon Watch (find info, make a donation)

Rainforest Alliance (find info, make a donation)

WWF (find info, make a donation, sign a petition)

Rainforest Action Network (make a donation)