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The Amazon: A Global Treasure Rainforests sustain us. They help regulate the global climate and are vital to maintaining the earth's fragile balance. The Amazon rainforest is the world's largest and most biodiverse tropical rainforest, covering an area larger than the continental United States. It houses one-third of the Earth's plant and animal species and produces one-fifth of all its flowing fresh water. Nearly 400 distinct indigenous peoples depend on the Amazon rainforest for their physical and cultural survival. At current rates of deforestation, nearly 50 percent of the Amazon could be lost or severely degraded by the year 2020, and the vast majority will no longer be in a pristine state. With global deforestation contributing 20–25 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, Amazon Watch and our indigenous partners are providing a service to all humanity as we together seek to defend the rainforest. Each of us can take action. We may be the last generation that has a chance to protect this precious gem of our world's cultural and ecological heritage – an irreplaceable source of life and inspiration.

The Bitcoin Unlimited Community Organization The Bitcoin Unlimited organization maintains the open-source Bitcoin client by the same name. The organization's mandates are: 1. To foster competing implementations of the Bitcoin protocol in order to provide more choice to node operators and to add robustness to the network. 2. To support the continued growth and adoption of Bitcoin as a peer-to-peer electronic cash system as described in Satoshi Nakamoto's white paper [PDF]. The organization is governed by its Articles of Federation [PDF] and controversial decisions are settled by members voting. The organization is funded by donations, and it awards grants to qualified groups and individuals to help fund projects in line with its mandates.

Die Piratenpartei Deutschland beschäftigt sich mit den entscheidenden Themen des 21. Jahrhunderts. Das Recht auf Privatsphäre, eine transparente Verwaltung, eine Modernisierung des Urheberrechtes, freie Kultur, freies Wissen und ein moderner Sozialstaat sind unsere grundlegenden Ziele.