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RFCx: the Rainforest Savior

_____________ you are standing in a rainforest.

You are surrounded by tall trees, many of ___________ are more than 40 meters tall.

You are a hundred kilometers away _________ the nearest city.

What do you hear? Do you think it is a _________, peaceful place?

If so, you are wrong. The rainforest is actually a very _________ place.

Insects, birds, and monkeys are ____________ for much of this noise.

And sometimes there is another sound, one that _______ not belong in the forest at all. It is the buzz of a chainsaw.

Every year some 13 million hectares of rainforest, an area about the size of England, ______________.

This loss destroys the habitats for millions of species and _________ a major effect on the jungle's biodiversity.

Also, it increases the amount of CO2 ______ the air.

______________ of the rainforest is caused by logging, farming, mining, and other human activities.

Among these, logging is the main reason for nature's _________.

Some 70 to 80 percent of the logging in the rainforests is thought to be ___________.

To address this problem, a young American engineer has invented a simple device that detects illegal logging the moment it _____________.

It all started in 2011, when Topher White ____________ Indonesia as a volunteer.

One day, he and some of the other volunteers set out from the ranger station on a walk into a ___________ rainforest.

After walking only five minutes, his group came upon people who were cutting down trees ____________.

The surprised loggers fled, but White _______________.

_____________ the fact that they were still fairly close to the ranger station, it had been impossible to hear anything from back there.

It is ____________ the forest was so full of other sounds.

White ____________ thinking about ways to help.

He knew that even in the jungle, far from the city, there _________ good cell phone service.

He thought that perhaps cell phone technology could __________ the problem.

After he returned home to the U.S., in his father's garage he developed a small listening device ____________ an old cell phone.

He attached a sensitive microphone to the cell phone so _________ it could detect chainsaw noise from up to three kilometers away.

This device would be __________ high up in a tree.

When it picks up the buzz of a saw, it would ___________ a message to a ranger's cell phone.

White knew that he had to protect the cell phone so that it could ___________ in the hot and wet rainforest environment.

His solution was to _______ the phone in a plastic box.

Since there was no electricity where the phone needed to ___________, the device had to be able to power itself.

White ___________ solar panels to the cell phone.

He was sure ________ the panels would work, even under the shade of the thick tree leaves.

White ___________ to Indonesia to test the device.

Surprisingly, on only the second day after he _____________ the device, it picked up chainsaw noises.

An alert message was _______________ sent to White and the forest rangers.

When they approached the logging spot, the illegal loggers __________ away.

White published his story on the Internet and _________ quickly spread.

People living in other countries contacted White and ___________ if they could use the device.

Others, from around the world, started sending him their old cell phones so he could build more ____________.

These devices, called Rainforest Connection (RFCx), are now ____________ in the rainforests in Africa and South America.

One RFCx can ___________ 300 hectares of forest.

If a forest of this size is cut, 15,000 tons of CO2 ____________ into the air.

Preventing this amount of CO2 from ______________ has the same effect as taking 3,000 cars off the road for a year.

These devices are saving rainforests and providing new life for thousands of _____________ cell phones.

Thanks to Topher White and his RFCx devices, the earth is now a better place to __________.