Dear Rainforest Friends
The online silence has an end 
. We are back in Europe after 3 months hard labor in and around the Atlantic Rainforest. Finally we are also back to “normal” internet speed, so we are delighted to update you with what is happening in Brazil. The local internet provider promised to install faster lines beginning of April, we are looking forward to update you more regular in 2012.
The first ARFI office in Itacaré, built out of recycled wine bottles is basically finished. OBRIGADO to all the constructors – Milton, Manuel and helper, Nicolas Müller, Xavier De le Rue, Mirjam Jäger, Richard Permin, JP Walker, Florine Deplazes, Oliver Gittler, Anne-Flore Marxer, Drew Stevenson, the whole Swatch Crew, Moritz & the locals and everybody that helped during the Breathe Brazil Festival! Grand Opening in April 2012, who knows – maybe you are in the area?! Check attached pictures!
Starting April 2012 we will be down in Southern Bahia all year round teaming up with the boardering rainforest school “Escola Bosque da Passagem”. Check back in April when we will invite all of you to donate the school fee for a local kid in Itacaré – so rewarding I tell you…
Short before Christmas I had a truly creative and motivating meeting in Rio with the biggest Bank in Brazil. To reforest and protect rainforest on a big scale we need money, loads of money – yes – it does look very promising – we keep you updated on this matter.
We all wish you a great 2012! May your dreams and wishes realize!! In case you would like to absorb your CO2 emissions with the direct protection of a lot of Atlantic Rainforest, please visit our site at www.atlanticrainforest.org and protect rainforest in one of the 5 remaining biodiversity hotspots of our planet. OBRIGADO!
Thanks and Big Up to Mother Nature!
Chris Bachmann
