One way you can help save the forest is by donating to the foundation, but you can also do more than that. Watching where you buy things like your gold jewelry, and who you buy from, can make a difference.
"It takes about 250 tons of earth to produce a simple wedding ring. And if that gold is produced in the Amazon rainforest, it's also mined using mercury," said Gamble."They either burn off the mercury from the gold nugget that they get. Or, if they don't get any gold, they'll pour the mercury back into the water, so it goes everywhere."
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