Tag: Collection by Ni Rang 2014

2013 have remains a most important year in the history of fashion because this really fantastic and great brand Ni Rang is introduced first time in 2013. This recently introduced brand have made his name in the world of fashion very quickly and know by many for creativity and elegance spread by this brand in [...]scale forest protection. And it's the Amazon. I feel like we've won the World Cup of Conservation!

So how did it all happen?

In 2002, Brazil established the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) program to continue the commitment the country made in 1998 to protect at least 10 percent of the Brazilian Amazon in response to growing concerns about the future of tropical rainforests. The challenge they faced however, and with most conservation programs in general, was how to fund it for the long-term.

A squirrel monkey travels branch to branch in an Amazonian tree. (Image credit: ©Zig Koch/WWF-Canon)

A decade later, WWF had teamed up with the government of Brazil; the Brazilian Biodiversity Fund, a private non-profit organization that designs and manages financial mechanisms for biodiversity conservation; Larry Linden, a former