“BUY
THE RAINFOREST FOR MEDICINE & HUMANITY”
BUY + PROTECT
+ECONOMICAL ALTERNATIVES + MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER = SAVED
RAINFOREST
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COME VISIT AGAIN
WE ARE WORKING ON
ADDING
NEW EXOTIC SURPRISES
We are a group of
Peruvian and U. S. American naturalists and scientists working
together on a unique concept and the most effective way of saving
the Rainforest before it is gone.
Our concept involves buying and
protecting the Rainforest, and concurrently in a timeline
sequence establishing the Medical
Research Center as the main economical alternative for the
inhabitants of the forests involved. The strategy for this
concept to effectively work, is that these steps cannot be
separated; they go together, money will be prorated to start up.
Peru contains 84 out of 104 ecosystems found in the
world today. This has sparked a series of world records that
would astonish even the most skeptical researcher: Peru is home
to between 40,000 and 60,000 vascular plants (the most highly
evolved ones), of which only half have been classified.
The diversity in this region has contributed to pharmaceutical
knowledge including quinine to fight malaria at the turn of the
century, to “cat's claw” to treat modern immune system
diseases. Given the medical importance of plants in this region,
the need to share information on both the “known” and
“unknown” species of plants is crucial.
Our OBJECTIVES are as follows:
- To buy the land
which encompasses the Cloud & Rain forests in the
Amazon region of Peru, establishing it as an eternal preserve.
- To hold the land in
a private trust for use by the
Medical Research Center and other legal research
entities. The purchased land must be secure and
patrolled to prevent further clearing and
development. To allow for existing infrastructures on
purchased lands to remain, but no further encroachments
into the rainforests to be constructed.
- To open the “Medical
Research Center” in the Peruvian Rainforest,
with the following objectives:
- Once established and staffed
with scientists and local Shamans
from the forest involved, the Research Center will
research the rainforest's plants to find new
compounds, vaccines and cures for common
diseases, especially for Malaria, Cancer and AIDS.
- The Research Center additionally
would serve as an online library
storehouse of information on rainforest botanicals,
medical usage, research reports for new findings,
providing an access point for information
sharing.
- Pharmaceutical Companies,
botanists, zoologists, private researchers, and
others would petition the Medical Research Center for
access to regions of the forest for legitimate
research. Reports on research
findings conducted would be mandatory.
- The Research Center would
provide a contact point and facility whereby an
international team of professional scientists can
meet with the Shamans or medicine
men of the forests involved, to learn more about the
traditional medicinal uses of the plants in the
rainforest.
- Patents rights for new
discoveries and royalties will remain in situ under
the umbrella of the MRC and its discoverers (Shamans,
Tribes, Scientists)
..... Fees would be established to
offset costs of operating the rainforest preserve and the
Research Center.
- To foster the tradition of the Shamans
and apprentices to keep and pass their knowledge and
wisdom especially to the youngest generations.
- To develop sustainable management
projects as economical alternatives for
all the native population already living in the forests.
The main and better alternative will be that most of the
people from these forests will work and get paid to look
after all the genetic material from all
forests involved. Among other
alternatives projects are: reforestation, oils &
resins extraction techniques, manufacture of final
medicinal & health products, fish-farming,
eco-tourism, and nutritional & healing lodges for the
local and international market.
- Allow for the rainforest to
heal itself. Monitor and care for the forest
recognizing it is humanity's largest supply of oxygen,
and best hope for utilizing nature's diversity in
medicine.
- Eventually the sustainable
management projects will generate its own funds to keep
the projects alive forever, enabling us to try to apply
the same concept in other countries.
PROJECT INFORMATION:
The following outlined steps are somewhat
concurrent.
- Step 1: Form a team in Peru to
arrange for large land purchases of any
parcels legally for sale and available for private
purchase. (Buying the land at the perimeter of the
rainforests first before purchasing interior lands is
recommended). 16-24 months
- Step 2: Hire, train, and maintain an
uncorrupted security patrol to prevent
all burning, clearing, and development of the privatized
acreage. Monitoring larger interior areas by satellite is
an option to be explored. 12 month set up.
- Step 3: Disseminate information to
local populations, foster good will and education on
preservation of the Rainforest. The goal is to develop sustainable
management projects as economical
alternatives for native populations already
living in the forests. Native populations will not be
relocated from any privatized rainforest land. Concurrent
with step 1. 16-24 months
- Step 4: To implement and staff the Medical
Research Center. The Center, the first one of
this kind in Peru, will research for cures of common
diseases, will be the “gateway” for
international researchers to access the Rainforest's
botany and will also document Shaman medicine and catalog
the rainforest foliage. 24 month set up
