Get Ready for Rio: Thank You for Supporting the Amazon Rainforest Conservancy
/BALLET FANTASTIQUE X AMAZON RAINFOREST CONSERVANCY
photo by Bob Williams
Celebrate Good with our final blog of the Get Ready for Rio series
Thank you so much for your support of Ballet Fantastique’s 2021 New Year’s Eve World Premiere, Arrivals: Rio. We loved sharing this new art with you, and are so grateful that it all came together! Leading up to the performance, we shared stories from our guest visual and musical artists, as well as local businesses that helped us get into the New Year’s Eve experience!
Now that we are in 2022, we wanted to share with you the impact you made on one of the beloved locations we journeyed to together in the show: The Amazon Rainforest
With your help, we were able to raise $1,598.00 for the Amazon Rainforest Conservancy!
The Amazon Rainforest is the most biodiverse terrestrial place on Earth. It is home to 30% of our planet’s species. This incredible place provides plants that have been used to treat and cure many diseases and sequesters much of the carbon that would otherwise pollute our atmosphere. This biome spreads across eight South American countries, occupying 2.6 million square miles.
Due to climate change, deforestation, and illegal gold mining, the Amazon is losing roughly 10,000 acres per day. This means that the greatest rainforest on Earth, known as the Lungs of our Planet, could be completely gone by 2064.
This incredible biome of diversity and life inspired so much of Ballet Fantastique’s Arrivals: Rio, that we knew we had to give back. We partnered with the Amazon Rainforest Conservancy. Amazon Rainforest Conservancy (ARC) protects threatened tropical rainforest habitats in the Peruvian Amazon to conserve and restore the biodiversity of species and ecosystems for the benefit of future generations. ARC currently helps protect 146,000 hectares (360,000 acres) of pristine old growth rainforest in the Amazon lowlands. In 2022, ARC is expanding with projects in the cloud forests and headwaters of the Amazon basin. This will allow us to protect a wider biodiversity of plants and animals, and especially endangered species and the wildernesses they call home.
“In these challenging times it’s more important than ever that we stand together to protect and defend what’s left of the Amazon Rainforest. This is one of the most meaningful investments we can make – for our future generations, and for the good of our planet.”
-Jana Bell, ARC Founder & President