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Maia is a tree pixie doll from the Amazon.  Whe you give new toy dolls, such as Maia, to your child you will be providing her educational toys that are both fun and informative. Maia is made from certified organic cotton and comes with a card that teaches your child about the Amazon Rainforest and how humans are the main cause of the loss of rainforest trees.

Rainforests have been around for millions of years–they’re the Earth’s oldest living ecosystems–they may not be around for much longer. At the present rate of destruction, all the earth’s rainforests will be gone in 30 years. And once the rainforest is destroyed, it doesn’t come back. 137 species of plants and animals become extinct every day in rainforests around the world.

Why Is the Rainforest In Danger?
When you think of the rainforest, you probably think of monkeys, jungle plants, big snakes, and lots of rain. You may not think about oil, copper, and gold, but these are found in the rainforest, too! Companies from many different countries are interested in removing things like oil, copper, and gold from the rainforest and selling them in other parts of the world. The wood from certain types of trees in the rainforest, like mahogany, is also very valuable. When these natural resources are removed from the rainforest, companies often destroy or damage the water, soil, plants, and animals there.

Learn more about the Rainforest and the dangers it is facing at: http://www.pbs.org/journeyintoamazonia/teacher_act.html.  The above information is from this website and offers simple steps for students, schools, and families to help be a Amazon activist.

Some ways you can help are listed such as:

• avoid buying products made from “exotic woods” that grow in the rainforest. These include Mahogany, Teak, Rosewood, Sitka Spruce, and Western Red Cedar.
• use recycled paper (or tree-free paper made from cotton, straw, or other substances)
• recycle paper goods at home and at school

Maia has two sisters – Kayla, a Marsh Pixie doll from the Florida Everglades and Anyu, an Ice Pixie soft doll from the North Pole.  These girl dolls are sold separately as well as in a set of three at a discounted small bulk price.

Your child will love playing with her new soft toy dolls and parents and educators can use her to teach about how her homeland in the Florida Everglades is being threatened by water pollution. Your new doll will come with a card that teaches children more about water pollution.

New from ImagiPLAY our girls dolls are packaged in 100% post consumer recycled cardboard. Ages 3+.  Delightful to play with,  Kayla is a girl doll and is made from certified ORGANIC cotton fabric and non-toxic water based dyes.
 

Organic Cotton – So, Just What Does That Mean?

• Cotton is one of the world’s dirtiest crops – although it covers only 2.5% of the world’s cultivated land, it uses 16% of the world’s insecticides!
• It takes almost one third pound of fertilizer to grown just 1 pound of cotton (about 1 t-shirt)?
• Synthetic fertilizers are considered the most detrimental to the environment.
• Cotton seed and field trash, where many pesticide residues have been detected, is usually sold for animal feed and traces of common cotton pesticides have been found in cows milk

 According to Lynda Grose of the Sustainable Cotton Project at: http://www.sustainablecotton.org/ cotton is considered one of the most chemically dependent crops in the world, conventional cotton uses 10 percent of all agricultural chemicals and 25 percent of the world’s insecticides—in the U.S., one-third of a pound of chemicals are needed just to grow enough conventional cotton for a regular T-shirt. “Organic cotton is a solution to the problem of chemical use in conventional cotton.”

Organic cotton crops, on the other hand, are kept healthy with a number of natural methods that help control weeds and pests. According to the Organic Consumers Association’s Clothes for a Change Program at http://www.organicconsumers.org/clothes/background.cfm., these methods include mechanical or hand-weeding, crop rotation, planting several crops together (intercropping), use of mulches, adjusting planting dates and densities of crops, and introducing beneficial predator insects.

Kayla has two sisters, Anyu, an Ice Pixie soft doll from the North Pole and Maia, a Tree Pixie Doll from the Amazon Rainforest.  These dolls are sold separately as well as in a set of three at a discounted small bulk price.