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About this project
We are an environmental education project with a network of 15 000 students around the Atlantic Ocean. For the last eight months three of us have been travelling around the ocean rim, producing collaborative climate change projects for schools and raising awareness of the problems communities are facing. We are now in Brazil and have been presented with an incredible opportunity.
We are working with a group of conservationists, campaigners and ecologists who can get us access to remote parts of the rainforest where abundant wildlife and virgin forest are still intact. We will be able to produce truly unique films and projects for the school network, including interviews with ecologists, live link ups between schools and experts, and dramatic film material of the forest's flora and fauna. Material the average high school student would never usually encounter in class.
However, nothing in the Amazon comes cheap. We need to raise $2000 to access the forest 1000 miles up-river from Belem, pay for guides and specialist equipment, and have enough left over to get out again.
If you have an adventurous itch, or care about how future generations understand our impact on the natural world, then please support this project. We are desperate not to miss out on the opportunity.
More information can be found on our website www.atlanticrising.org.
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A big thank you from us for considering the project.
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Your name on our website and our undying gratitude.
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A portfolio of high-res photos taken from the heart of the rainforest (one of our sponsors is a medium format camera company). We will email these to you.
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A postcard and a portfolio of high-res photos emailed from the rainforest.
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A tailor made report from the rainforest, including photos and a diary of our time there and a postcard.
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Your name and website on a special supporters page on our website.
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We will do a live link up with you from the heart of the rainforest. We will arrange a time and answer any questions that you might have about life in the Amazon. You will also get a special report about our time there.
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We will make you a short film about the Amazon, answering any questions that you might have. If possible, this will include interviews, aerial shots and landscape photography.
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Get your community involved in the project. For $1000 we will include one school or community group of your choice in our network, giving them access to all of our educational resources. If they are near the Atlantic Coast, we will even spend a day with them explaining the project and answering their questions.
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Come and join us! For $2000 you can accompany us for a long weekend when we pass through your country. You will have the roof tent to yourself, but will be expected to muck in and help with cooking on a camp fire. Join our visits to schools and our work with environmental projects around the Atlantic coastline.
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Atlantic Rising
Send MessageWe are an ambitious environmental education project, currently on a 32 000 mile expedition to circumnavigate the Atlantic Ocean overland. We have already been through Europe and West Africa, crossed the ocean by container ship, and are now about to embark on a journey through the Americas from Brazil to Nova Scotia.
During our project we are establishing an educational network between 15 000 students around the ocean rim. We have schools in thirteen countries, from Scotland and Canada to Ghana and Brazil. Throughout the expedition we are carrying out climate change research which we are formatting into education projects for the schools involved in the network.
We are currently fundraising for $2000 to enable us to ship ourselves and our vehicle, 1000 miles up the Amazon river to carry out some work with an organisation campaigning against deforestation in the area. This is a unique opportunity to produce incredible educational resources, right from the heart of the rainforest.
More information about our work can be found on our website www.atlanticrising.org
