Help me save rainforest (From Thisisdorset)

Help me save rainforest

8:20am Friday 26th October 2007

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A THERAPIST is calling on local firms to save the Amazon Rainforest through the power of collective healing.

Bob Murphy, a complementary therapist in Weymouth, believes healing hands can do the world of good by paying for a chunk of rainforest that will be preserved forever.

Mr Murphy, 55, has built a website and is inviting therapy companies to subscribe to it and be listed on a database.

He said: "The Amazon Rainforest is a long way away but we need to stop it from being destroyed.

"We need the Amazon for the air we breathe and it is being cut down at an alarming rate.

"We're asking people to help us stop deforestation and keep the rainforest in its original state. It's not about owning the rainforest, it's about buying it to keep it preserved."

The Leamington Road resident is also appealing for businesses and individuals to make donations through the site.

He wants to secure several hundred acres of land, which will be bought through the national Cool Earth campaign.

Mr Murphy hopes the fundraising will gather pace in the build-up to a charity day next year, which will offer people the chance to try complementary therapy techniques.

World Healing Day, to be held in Weymouth, will let people try out a range of therapies including reiki, hypnotherapy and re-connection healing.

Mr Murphy said: "People can have a go at lots of different things including hand massage and metamorphic therapy, which builds up the energy in your body."

The website - still under construction - will be a database of therapists from all over the world and give little-known therapies more exposure, Mr Murphy said. For information and to make a donation, see www.globalhealing.me.uk and www.coolearth.org

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