FUNDACION DE LA JUVENTUD EL DEPORTE Y EL AMBIENTE

YFSE (Youth Foundation for Sport and Environment) is a non-profit NGO that seeks to promote, through educational programs, a global awareness of the need and urgency to save Earth's remaining forests, as well as paving the way for recovery of forest areas and habitats that have already become deteriorated, but that are of vital importance for the Earth's bio-diversity, climate, and health for all of it's inhabitants.

Facts:

Around ten thousand years ago, forests covered more than ten thousand million hectares of our world's surface. Today they cover less than four thousand million hectares worldwilde International experts predict Central America will become a desert by the year 2015 Every passing hour, 44 hectares of rainforest are destroyed in Central America alone Every minute, a piece of forest the size of a football pitch disappears from the face of the Earth Half of our Tropical Rainforest have been cut down during the twentieth century Trees are the main and possibly the best solution again the Green House Effect Forests are the main shelter for our Planet's biodiversity

By helping to save the forests, you will not only saving Fauna, Flora, Fresh Water and unique ecosystems; you will also be contributing to the fight against the climate change.