What is Twearth Day?

The name is derived from the combination of TWitter and Earth Day.

Twearth day is Project Green Jungle’s Earth Day Event.
Twitter.com is a website that allows it’s users to update “followers” with information in a real time basis. Project Green jungle is utilizing this technology to update this website in real time from the Jungles of Costa Rica for Earth Day. We will be updating this site with water quality tests conducted on the Sixaola River, as well as during a species account and biodiversity survey of Hitoy Cerere Biological Reserve. In fact, we wil be updating this site from Costa Rica for six days!

From your classroom, or from your home, you can take part in a whole week worth of events on this site. Through these events, we encourage you to develop and use the information for your science curriculum or for a home learning experience.

Twearth Day 2009 will take place in Costa Rica. Costa Rica is an amazingly unique country which houses an unbelievable amount of wildlife and natural resources.

Please Note: This site will be receiving a lot of updates through the first week of March. we are building this site during that time, so if you show up during this time, please sign up and keep up to date by utilizing the RSS feeds or adding this page to your favorites.

The commercial wildlife trade is a profitable industry. According to most studies, the business of wildlife trafficking generates billions of dollars each year across the globe. But if you mentioned those numbers to an indigenous trader from a Careworn Village in South America, he might scoff and point to his crumbling home or the bellies of his hungry children. It rarely profits those who need it most. The majority of proceeds from the wildlife trade do not line the pockets of indigenous peoples; but commercial operations and black market middlemen who profit by exploiting native communities for their greatest natural resource - wildlife. Through practices legal and illegal, exploitative trade threatens to devastate our planet’s exotic species, and the lives of the people who rely on them. But It doesn’t have to be that way. What if there was a means to decrease exploitation, increase wildlife numbers and assist those who depend on the trade of wildlife for their very survival? With your help, we believe we can do just that. Founded by The Florida International Teaching Zoo, a non-profit organization, The Green Jungle Project is dedicated to starting indigenous populations on the path to self-sufficiency through the cultivation of commercial wildlife. By developing safe breeding facilities and responsible trade practices among indigenous cultures, we aim to swell wildlife populations and provide a solid means of economic support for struggling communities. By working together, we believe we can take on social, environmental and wildlife causes by creating common-sense solutions that benefit all. The world doesn’t have to be man versus nature. With a little hard work and patience, we can better our planet for both.

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