Place an Ad in the Commemorative Event Program!

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1 Sponsorship Opportunities Amazon Watch s 4 th Annual Celebration and Fundraiser October 7, 2009 The Green Room San Francisco, CA Place an Ad in the Commemorative Event Program! We invite our partners, allies, friends and progressive businesses to place a special advertisement or message in our event program. Raise your profile in the community while contributing critical funds to protect the Amazon rainforest and advance the rights of indigenous peoples. Amazon Watch is excited to announce our 4th annual Celebration and Fundraiser, where we anticipate the attendance of 250 guests, many of whom are prominent throughout the Bay Area and beyond for their leadership and commitment to the environment and human rights. The magazine format program will be printed on 8 1/2 x 11 New Leaf recycled paper with vegetable based ink, featuring full color throughout. It will feature award-winning photography, information about Amazon Watch s programs, and articles about topical issues like climate change, fair trade, human rights, indigenous peoples and corporate accountability. Publicity and Promotion: All sponsor names to be featured on the event page at amazonwatch.org Sponsors of $1,000 and up will have their logo featured on the website event page The 250 attendees of the event will receive the program containing sponsor ads, and it will also be distributed at various events throughout the year An electronic version of the program will be posted on our website Current and past host committee members include: Benjamin and Peter Bratt, Paul Hawken, Q orianka Kilcher, Jeff Mendelsohn, David Rothschild, Bill and Lynn Twist and Nadine Weil. Payment and Art Work Due: September 9, 2009 Advertisement rates and sizes are described in the attached form CONTACT: For any questions, or to submit payment and artwork, please contact: Cyndie Berg, Development Director Amazon Watch, 221 Pine Stret, Fourth Floor, San Francisco, CA Phone: (415) xt. 24 Fax: (415) cyndie@amazonwatch.org Amazon Watch, 221 Pine Street, Fourth Floor, San Francisco, CA Phone: (415) Fax: (415)

2 Sponsorship Form All proceeds from the event will directly benefit Amazon Watch programs. Full-payment is due upon submittal of this form. Payment and Art Work Due: September 9, 2009 ADVERTISER INFORMATION Name: Org/Business: Address: City: State: Zip: Phone: Fax: Website: ADVERTISEMENT INFORMATION (all adds will be printed in full color) Location / Specs / Amount: Full Page Ad and Event Banner $5,000 Front Inside Cover 7.5 x 10 $2,500 Back Cover = 7.5 x 10 $2,000 Back Inside Cover = 7.5 x 10 $1,500 Full Page = 7.5 x 10 $1,000 Half Page (vertical) = 3.6 x 10 $500 Half Page (horizontal) = 7.5 x 4.75 $500 Quarter Page = 3.6 x 4.75 $250 Business Card = 3.5 x 2 $125 PAYMENT Total $ Check Enclosed (please make checks payable to Amazon Watch) Please charge my (circle one): Visa Mastercard AMEX Card #: Exp. Date Printed Name on Card: Signature: AD SPECIFICATIONS AND FORMAT All ads will be printed in full color. For digital files, please include all printer and screen fonts plus imported graphics. All images or graphics must be 300 dpi and sent as.jpg or.tif files. We ask that you provide one print out proof of copy and one CD of files labeled with your company name. Graphics not sized may be reduced or cropped. If you wish to send large files electronically, you may post your artwork posting via Amazon Watch FTP site. Please ask for details. Business card size ads may be submitted in hard copy format. Digital Art / Ad on CD Enclosed per Specifications Hard Copy Art / Ad Enclosed per Specifications Amazon Watch, 221 Pine Street, Fourth Floor, San Francisco, CA Phone: (415) Fax: (415)

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5 The Amazon Rainforest and Our Global Climate Many people realize that Amazon rainforest is the world s largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest, covering an area larger than the continental United States. What more people are coming to understand is that the Amazon rainforest plays a critical role in regulating our global climate. Waves of hot humid air leave the Amazon and travel across the planet, contributing to atmospheric circulation that drives weather systems from the U.S. to Asia, affecting the strength and timing of the monsoons and hurricanes. Scientists report that deforestation in the Amazon can adversely affect rainfall as far away as California and Mexico. The rainforests of the Amazon basin are also one of the world s largest reservoirs of carbon. Deforestation in the Amazon basin now emits an estimated 600 million tons of carbon a year, more than U.S. automobile use. Scientists warn that Amazon deforestation is reaching a critical tipping point that will lead to entire forest systems collapsing for lack of recycled rain. The basin has already lost percent of its forest cover and an equal area has been degraded. Under current rates of deforestation, nearly 50 percent of the Amazon could be lost or severely degraded by the year 2020, with grave implications for global climate stability. Carbon emissions from tropical deforestation compose nearly 25 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions. In turn, climate change is making tropical rainforests more vulnerable to forest fires and droughts, leading to more deforestation. This positive feedback loop threatens the very survival of the Amazon rainforest and life on our fragile planet. Deforestation is fueled by shortsighted industrial development. Dams, oil and gas pipelines, roads, as well as large-scale logging and agribusiness open up pristine rainforest areas, with devastating effects for indigenous communities, biodiversity, and our global climate. Thus, Amazon Watch s work with indigenous peoples to protect their Amazonian homelands could not be more urgent. The Amazon: Our Planet s Largest Tropical Rainforest Basin area: Just over 2.7 million square miles, nearly the size of the United States Population: Approximately 3.3 million Indigenous population: 1.7 million people; more than 350 indigenous and ethnic groups Biodiversity: One-third of the world s species live here, including 40,000 plant species. It is a refuge for jaguars, harpy eagles, pink dolphins, manatees, two-toed sloths, howler monkeys and the world s richest diversity of birds, freshwater fish and butterflies Water resources: One-fifth of the world s flow of freshwater Average annual deforestation (Brazil): 8,297 square miles Estimated percent deforested (Basin-wide): percent Carbon Sink: roughly billion metric tons of carbon Countries with land inside the Amazon Basin: Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, and Suriname Sources: Woods Hole Research Center, World Wildlife Fund 2

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