- Date
- 1995-12
- Kind
- Education
- Where
- Beaver Island
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- educationconservationenvironmentcommunitycommunication
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The December Beacon reports that Beaver Island Community School ninth- and tenth-graders sold 89 T-shirts, ten more than the previous year, to support the purchase of 81,500 acres adjacent to Brazil’s Pantanal National Park. The paper states that each ten shirts purchased one acre toward the conservation effort.
Evidence limits
This is a newspaper account of a student fundraising activity and the named conservation campaign, not a land-purchase deed, sales ledger, or independent measure of the project’s conservation outcome.
Sources
- Describes the Pantanal National Park and an adjacent 81,500-acre conservation purchase, and reports that Beaver Island ninth- and tenth-graders sold 89 shirts—10 more than the prior year—with each ten shirts credited toward one acre. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1995-12_Beaver-Beacon
- The held issue scan confirms the school rainforest article.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1995-12_Beaver-Beacon
Added 5 August 2026 · revised 7 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island ninth- and tenth-graders join a rainforest conservation project in 1995”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-school-rainforest-project-1995/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, December 1995, “9th and 10th Grade Students Help to Save the Rainforest!” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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