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Preserving critical habitats around the globe
For more than 36 years, we have demonstrated that safeguarding critical habitat is the most effective way to protect species. We work with local partners to develop projects aimed at securing vital habitat.
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Save species from extinction
A million species are at risk of extinction this century, each unique and irreplaceable. The leading cause is habitat destruction, and the most valuable habitat is rainforest.
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A million species are at risk of extinction this century, each unique and irreplaceable. The leading cause is habitat destruction, and the most valuable habitat is rainforest.
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Save rainforests to stop climate change
We cannot stop climate change without saving tropical forests and keeping historical carbon safely locked up in the wood and soil while removing excess CO2 from the air.
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We cannot stop climate change without saving tropical forests and keeping historical carbon safely locked up in the wood and soil while removing excess CO2 from the air.
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Saving the world isn't possible without people
We establish strategic partnerships with the world’s most experienced and committed conservationists and their organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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We establish strategic partnerships with the world’s most experienced and committed conservationists and their organizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Saving real acres of rainforest
Save 450,000 Acres of High-carbon Amazon Rainforest from Deforestation in Peru
Save Mexico’s Biodiversity Stronghold
Save Grauer’s Gorilla and lock up 28.6 million tons of carbon
Stopping Deforestation at the Edge of the Bolivian Amazon
Save Mozambique’s Butterfly Forest
Expand Protection for the “Asian Unicorn”
Last stand against deforestation in the Peruvian Andes
Critical Protection for Nepal’s Rhododendron Forests
Help Protect Biodiverse Atlantic Forest in Brazil
Save Critically Endangered Amphibians and Thousands of Threatened Species
“Protecting land is the critical first step in halting extinctions and stabilizing our climate. It can only happen through partnerships, and Rainforest Trust is committed to helping replicate this success worldwide.”
James DeutschPhD, CEO, Rainforest Trust
“Halting and reversing biodiversity loss and climate change requires expanded protected and conserved areas, especially in tropical forests—this has been Rainforest Trust’s mission for over 30 years,” said James C. Deutsch, Ph.D., CEO of Rainforest Trust. “Developing nations and Indigenous Peoples need financing to achieve this, which is why we are pledging to more than double our level of funding between now and 2030 and urging other private and public funders to do the same.”
Dr. James DeutschCEO, Rainforest Trust
"One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing... All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn’t any more available."
Stephen HawkingPhysicist & Author
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Dr. Jane GoodallScientist & Activist
Rainforest Trust has my highest respect... for its reserve-creating projects which have the exceptional merit of being based upon biological research of high quality, exact mapping, and clear statements of what support will accomplish.
The late E.O. WilsonTwo-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and former Rainforest Trust Board Member
“Halting and reversing biodiversity loss and climate change requires expanded protected and conserved areas, especially in tropical forests—this has been Rainforest Trust’s mission for over 30 years,” said James C. Deutsch, Ph.D., CEO of Rainforest Trust. “Developing nations and Indigenous Peoples need financing to achieve this, which is why we are pledging to more than double our level of funding between now and 2030 and urging other private and public funders to do the same.”
Dr. James DeutschCEO, Rainforest Trust
“Halting and reversing biodiversity loss and climate change requires expanded protected and conserved areas, especially in tropical forests—this has been Rainforest Trust’s mission for over 30 years,” said James C. Deutsch, Ph.D., CEO of Rainforest Trust. “Developing nations and Indigenous Peoples need financing to achieve this, which is why we are pledging to more than double our level of funding between now and 2030 and urging other private and public funders to do the same.”
Dr. James DeutschCEO, Rainforest Trust
"The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.”
E. O. WilsonTwo-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and former Rainforest Trust Board Member
"The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.”
E. O. WilsonTwo-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and former Rainforest Trust Board Member
Rainforest Trust has my highest respect... for its reserve-creating projects which have the exceptional merit of being based upon biological research of high quality, exact mapping, and clear statements of what support will accomplish.
The late E.O. WilsonTwo-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and former Rainforest Trust Board Member
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