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Show ir OafciTialano jseayenge potpourri yog chic ctorob in voroigED land: By CHfSSTENA COLCLOUGH Associated Press Writer EL CRUCE, Guatemala 300 families are involved in the business and keen to piotect the rainforest they once slashed and burned. The village, one of several in the area, is only 150 miles north of Guatemala City, but nestled in the jungle it is a world away. Covering 6.400 square miles. Guatemala's tropical rainforest is the largest in Central America and the second biggest after the Amazon in Latin America. It is home to more than 400 exotic bird species. 57 snake species, a variety of monkeys, five types of wild cat and Car- los Acuni and others left Guatemala's coastal plain to carve out a new life in the jungle as farmers. The poor immigrants weren't bent on destroying the fragile rainforest, he says, "but we did come here for land and to plant com, so ue have to burn down the jungle." Conservationists have long worried about such threats to the world's rainforests, so one group came to the villagers of El Cruce with a proposal for making a living without harming the trees: Harv est die products of the jungle itself. Peasants hand pick detritus from the forest floor. They dry the leaves, dye the seeds and perfume the wood chips, which are exported to be sold in elegant packaging as exotic potpourri in chic stores in the United States and Europe. Jhey also gather ingredients for the beauty-car- e dyes and allspice leaves and berries to perfume potpourri. Now, about a third of El Cruce s Your Newspapers problems aren't er KnJght-AkM- child-car- e a headache just for you. Employee absences from work because of such problems are costing companies $3 billion a year, according to a Conference Board report. 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The conservationists also are among construction and food service workers, writers, designers, artists and athletes, a U.S. Depart- e tf w working with the jungle villages to collect exotic materials that are used in personal care products. ff full-tim- ri 1 Acuna said. Conservation International's enterprise development director. With the success of the harvesting project, a spin-oindustry began among local artisans, who paint decorative patterns on vegetable gourds as packaging for the Among i 1W Acu-na- A Washington-base- d environmental group. Conservation International, came up with the harvesting idea to save the forest while providing work' fori the impoverished communities in the region. "Basically it is the garbage of the rainforest. But the potpourri project creates alternative sources of income and jobs based on the sustainable harvest and extractions of the forest," said Sharon Flynn. : 1985. I Sitting on the ground inside a 's wooden shack at the center, sister Edie patiently sorts through what appears to a mound of delicate paper butterflies. Tittering, she said. "Pretty aren't they? But they are just the inside of a pod that grow s on a jungle vine." A U.S. company imports thousands of these "butterflies" annually, dips them in gold or silver and sells them as jewelry, bookmarks and Christmas ornaments. "Just imagine, those beautiful earrings came from our jungle." programs important to companies Child-car- e " Apri 13, potpourri. thousands of varieties of tropical plants and trees. Conservationists have been warning that the rainforest is disappearing at an alarming rate because of illegal logging of its precious hard woods and a rise in the number of poor Guatemalans moving in seeking land. industry. Business is booming. 'People thought we were mad when we told them we would pay money if they brought us w hat was on the jungle floor." said Acuna. who oversees the daily operations of the village's potpourri center. But the villagers quickly found they could earn up to three times the nation's minimum wage of $140 a day by collecting botanicals and harvesting tree woods for Tuesday, Available at LVseret Book or wherever Deseret Book products are sold or call I n?1 rj. pio |