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Disney is committed to being more than
just one of the world's leading
entertainment companies we're all
citizens and caretakers of this planet
and we take seriously our responsibility
to help protect this incredible place
that we call home Disney nature was
launched on Earth Day 2008 with the
mission of bringing the world's best
nature filmmakers together to share a
wide variety of wildlife stories on the
big
screen the main aims of these films is
to raise people's awareness and through
the conservation projects we do some
good in the field as well it's a way of
giving Back To Nature which is the
obvious source of inspiration for vir
everything Disney's ever done our
audience especially kids really have
been able to give back in a pretty
profound way on each of these
movies it began with the first release
Earth for every movie ticket sold the
first week Disney nature through the
Disney worldwide conservation fund
planted a tree in Brazil's Atlantic
coast
forest of all the rainforest on the
planet the one that is most threatened
is the Atlantic coast forest in Brazil
there just 7% of it left in intact so
it's really important for us to protect
it the Disney Friends for Change
initiative Works to bring Environmental
Education to communities and with the
help of Disney Channel Latin America
Stars rata Ferrera and Jorge Blanco they
engage the people of jiz Deora Brazil to
join the tree planting
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effort at Disney we're committed to
helping kids develop lifelong
conservation values through connecting
them with nature experiences children
have to know how important all this is
as soon as they learn how to take care
of nature the better the planet's going
to be and now after four years of
working with the nature conservancy and
the people of Brazil Disney Nature has
planted its three millionth
tree this project has had a tremendous
impact here locally in D Brazil the
planting of the trees has created jobs
protected the water supply and brought
new life to the
Community but the Atlantic Forest of
Brazil was just the beginning with
Disney Nature's next release oceans
first week ticket sales made it possible
for the Disney worldwide conservation
fund to establish 40,000 Acres of Marin
protected coral reefs in the Bahamas by
going to see African cats audien has
helped protect 65,000 Acres of Savannah
in Kenya keeping crucial migration
corridors open for thousands of
migrating animals and for the latest
release chimpan
audiences helped Safeguard nearly
130,000 Acres of chimpanzee habitat care
for chimpanzees and educate 60,000
school children in the Republic of Congo
about the importance of chimpanzee
protection and nature conservation it's
desperately important that we raise
awareness and choose projects to help
people to help animals to help the
environment Disney nature the Disney
worldwide conservation fund Friends for
Change and Disney's Animal Kingdom are
working together on projects all over
the world that are connecting kids and
families with nature conserving our
planet and helping protect the wild
creatures that we share it with
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