Every time you search with Ecosia 80% of the revenue generated gets sent to WWF's Tumucumaque project in the Amazon. Ecosia also compensates all the carbon associated with each search made.
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- The search engine Ecosia is powered by Bing and Yahoo
- It has an international partnership with WWF
- WWF receives 80% percent of the site’s total monthly revenue, in support of its work in the Amazon.
- In 2010m €123,000 was raised for WWF - simply through people searching the web as they do everyday.
- Ecosia specifically supports the world’s largest tropical forest reserve, the Tumucumaque Conservation Landscape in northern Brazil.
- One of the most bio-diverse regions in the world, Tumucumaque is home to a number of endangered species, including the jaguar.
- It is part of the Guiana Shield, which contains 1/4 of the world’s untouched tropical rainforests, as well as the last major unpolluted water reserves in the Neotropics, supplying 1/5 of the Earth’s water.
- Ecosia GmbH is a social business based in Germany
- 80% of its revenue goes to the world’s rainforests. The remaining 20% of revenue is reinvested in the further growth and development of the business.
- The carbon associated with each search made via Ecosia is offset to balance out the impact of that search.
- To this end, Ecosia collaborates with PURE - a UK based carbon offset charity, which invests money in Gold Standard projects for the creation of renewable energy sources.
- Ecosia also runs on verified green power sources.
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