Hampshire organisation provides the perfect 'green' gift from
Madagascar.
Hampshire based Carbon-info.org, operator of Europe's largest global
warming website, is today launching a wide choice of ‘green‘ gifts in
support of Madagascar‘s blue-eyed black lemur.
Through it popular website, Carbon-info.org is offering a large range of
big and small tree planting gifts in support of the ongoing conservation
effort to save Madagascar’s rare blue-eyed black lemur from extinction.
‘Green’ gifts offer many benefits, which more conventional presents
cannot deliver. In addition to delighting the recipient, Carbon-info.org’s
tree planting gifts will:
1) Extend existing habitats as well as creating forest “corridors”
between fragments of forest and isolated groups of lemurs.
2) Support the local economy, because all trees are sourced locally.
This support has lead to a reduction in destruction of existing forest
and hunting of lemurs for bush-meat.
3) Benefit global warming because the trees continuously extract carbon
dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere while growing.
“This is a unique win-win-win project and the perfect ‘green‘
gift,” said Carbon-info.org’s Director Flemming Bermann.
Top three facts about the blue-eyed black lemur.
* Only found in Madagascar around the remote Sahamalaza peninsula
* “Critically Endangered”; Source: International Union for Conservation
of Nature (IUCN)
* There is only a small population of 3,000 animals remaining in the
wild.
The main threat to the blue-eyed black lemur and other species living in
Sahamalaza is habitat loss due to slash-and-burn agriculture and burning
of forest to make way for pasture land. Without a large-scale
reforestation programme, there is unlikely to be sufficient connected
forest habitat left to support a viable populations of the lemurs.
Tree planting gifts start from just £8.00 incl. VAT for three trees,
which can be purchased from Carbon-info.org’s website
www.carbon-info.org
4th January 2010
