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Some Positive News for Nature’s Pharmacy
As a consumer of Whole World Botanicals’ therapeutic herbal products, you have a very personal reason for caring about what happens to the Amazon Rainforest, which, as you are undoubtedly already aware, is in deep crisis due to global warming throughout the world.
Join Whole World Botanicals in supporting Amazonian Indigenous peoples' right to clean and safe water
Join Whole World Botanicals in supporting Amazonian Indigenous peoples' right to clean and safe water
Viana Muller, Ph.D.
Your Whole World Botanicals products are being endangered by an oil spill in the Ecuadorian Amazon. What's worse is that a court has rejected an appeal by indigenous and human rights organizations to prosecute the oil company responsible. Every Whole World Botanicals product except Royal Maca and Royal Lucraco derives from the Amazon River Basin, and their continued existence is threatened by the oil companies.
We urge you to read this short description and get involved: https://www.amazonfrontlines.org/chronicles/1-year-anniversary-oil-spill/
COVID-19: 5 Things You Can Do to Take Care of Yourself and Others
As COVID-19 continues to spread in communities near and far, it can feel overwhelming and scary. But there are ways we can cope with this health crisis together. No one individual, community, or country can deal with this challenge alone. We must work together, in our communities and across borders, with dignity and compassion.
Oscar Winner Joaquin Phoenix's New Film Sounds Alarm on Destruction of Amazon Rainforest
The 2019 – 2020 film awards season has been a busy one for Joaquin Phoenix, culminating with a win for Best Actor at Sunday’s Academy Awards for his titular role in the film Joker. The 45-year old actor has been using his stage time at these awards ceremonies to urge viewers and fellow actors alike to take action and do their part to combat the effects of climate change which are ravaging our planet.
Rainforest destruction from gold mining hits all-time high in Peru
Rainforest destruction from gold mining hits all-time high in Peru
Viana Muller, Ph.D.
Small-scale gold mining has destroyed more than 170,000 acres of primary rainforest in the Peruvian Amazon in the past five years, according to a new analysis by scientists at Wake Forest University's Center for Amazonian Scientific Innovation (CINCIA).
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Brazil's president-elect threatens Amazon rainforest
Jair Bolsonaro aims to boost mining, farming and dam building in Amazon.
Next year's climate talks were due to take place in Brazil, but that has now been reversed by the President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, who has also made no secret of his desire to open the Amazon to mining, farming and dam building.
Amazon Deforestation
Columbia's Amazon has become a wild west for environmental destruction. Criminal loggers and coca growers are swarming in and destroying everything in their path!
The area of deforestation jumped 44% in 2016 to 178,597 hectares (660 square miles) compared to the year before, according to official figures released this month.
We have to stop this secret attack on the Amazon!
Food Disaster: Republicans Stomp on GMO Labeling
With no debate and only a voice vote, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture today (July 14, 2015) passed out of committee H.R. 1599, a bill to preempt states’ rights to label GMOs. Within hours, it was announced that the bill will go straight to the House floor, as early as next week, with no vote in the Energy and Commerce Committee.
USDA Gives First Non-GMO Verification
USDA Gives First Non-GMO Verification Viana Muller, Ph.D. Minneapolis, MN—The USDA has verified its first non-GMO claim through its Process Verified Program(PVP). Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack noted that while the PVP itself is not new, this is the first claim of its kind to be verified through it. He added that other companies have taken interest in having their claims verified through the program. PVP being used for non-GMO verification does not mean that the USDA has set its own non-GMO standards. Instead, the program has the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) act as a third party in verifying marketing...
Peruvian Partnerships featuring Whole World Botanicals, Inc. Alliance for New Humanity
A new model of sustainable business practice that respects indigenous wisdom. Large corporations aided by a contemptible global economic system, perpetuate notoriously poor business practices in the majority world.
