Welcome to Gaia! ::

For starters, I'm assuming you know what Free Rice is, right?
If not, it's a game where you're asked the meaning of various words, and if you get one right then they automatically donate 20 grains of right, free, thanks to the many advertisers supporting this site who are hoping that you will glance one of their adds and do business with them.
http://www.freerice.com/index.php

Well, there's a new game out, called One Square Foot, which is same in principle except that they ask you basic trivia questions rather than vocabulary knowledge, and in exchange for getting a question right they save a square foot of rainforest on your behalf.

Of course, a square foot of rainforest is not much, at most the home of some various insects in a canopy. However, with enough people doing this, and doing it often, the results are nothing short of extraordinary.

http://www.onesquarefoot.org/

Keep in mind though that buying the rainforest is pointless whenever people are trying to feed their families the only way they know how, making money illegally through logging or farming. So by all means protect the rainforest, but at the same time give Free Rice it's shot and make sure people don't have to destroy the forest just to keep their kids alive.

You're very welcome, I'm happy to see the level of enthusiasm xd

Well, I agree with you that they need to watch their population, but you also need to consider that the locals are destroying local habitat because they need food.

People in the developing world understand perfectly the consequences of destroying the planet, more so than people than developed nations I would imagine. However, they love their kids too, and if they had a choice between a tree and their own kids then of course they'd choose the kids.

By giving people in developing nations the resources they need to make less hard choices, then they may very well take more action to protect their land. In the case of some farmers interviewed by Planet Earth on their views of the environment, they really did care for the habitat around their land, and thanks to some government initiatives were able to protect some of that same habitat. They were quick to point out, however, that without the government assistance they'd have no choice but to resort to more destructive practices if they ever hoped to make a decent living.

Of course, one could also argue that food will only lead to more children, you can never be too certain.
Truthfully, given the choice between food and rainforest protection I always prioritize food. Buying acres of rainforest will protect it in theory, but that won't stop desperate locals from plundering the land, especially if the buyout of the rainforest actually cost them their previous job (in the case of loggers, sugar tappers, and farmers).
But I still choose to protect rainforests every once in a while, sometimes they'll allow rubber tappers into the rainforest, which seems like a fair deal to me.

Simply Amazing! I was totally curious as to whether such a site existed as this! Thanks so much!

Hey, cool, I didn't know that this website had already been shared on this guild.

You don't just have to define words, you can click "subjects" at the top and answer multiplication problems, figure out which artist drew what painting, and a few more things.

Speaking of which, has anyone tried submitting any questions? whee