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3 - 5 pm

A reception and fundraiser for the Center for Amazon Community Ecology (CACE) will be held at the Elk Creek Café and Aleworks in Millheim on Sunday, January 10 from 3 to 5 pm.  The benefit will feature a photo exhibition called “Intimate views of Amazônia,” a slide-show presentation by environmentalist and photographer Dr. Campbell Plowden and a display of Amazon native handicrafts.  The exhibition that will be on display at the Café from January 5 through February 2 will feature portraits of Amazon forest peoples, plants and wildlife taken by Plowden who has visited the jungles of Brazil and Peru for over twenty years and founded the Center for Amazon Community Ecology – a non-profit conservation group based in State College, PA.
 
Plowden will discuss his group’s projects to promote forest conservation and support traditional communities in the Amazon.  Proceeds from the sale of the photos, baskets, bags, jewelry, and decorative items will help fund the Center’s research, community support and education programs.  These projects include sustainably harvesting plant resins and fibers and transforming them into valuable aromatic oils and handicrafts that forest families can sell.

Plowden made his first trip to the Amazon in 1986 with the Tropical Ecosystem Research and Rescue Alliance (TERRA International) when he documented a range of causes and potential solutions to deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon and documented the wild bird trade for the Humane Society of the U.S.  He conducted undercover investigations of the illegal tiger bone trade in Indonesia and illegal logging in Honduras with the Environmental Investigation Agency and coordinated the Greenpeace International Tropical Forest Campaign from 1989 through 1992.  He lived and worked with the Tembé Indians in the eastern Brazilian Amazon for two years doing field work for a PhD in Ecology at Penn State University and founded the Center for Amazon Community Ecology in 2006.  Plowden’s photographs of people, nature, and environmental themes have appeared in more than fifty publications, exhibitions and websites.   
   
For more information about the Center, visit http://www.amazonecology.org. 
For information about the Elk Creek Café and Aleworks, visit: http://www.elkcreekcafe.net.

Details

COST:

free - donations for crafts and photos

BROUGHT TO YOU BY: Center for Amazon Community Ecology
WEBSITE: http://www.amazonecology.org