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Location: Ilha Grande, Brazil

Name: Claudia Pezzolato

The handmade sign above says in Portuguese: “Keep Brazil Clean of Trash and Waste”

The locals finally understand how precious our rainforests are, but despite the local and worldwide attention towards protecting the rainforests for over three decades the current rate of destruction, according to the Rainforest Action Network, is more than an acre-and-a-half every second of every day.  Experts also estimate that each day we are losing 137 plant, animal and insect species.  That’s 50,000 unique species a year.