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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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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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Herp Conservation Guardian, Caleb Ofori, discovering the Togo Slippery Frog in the Onepone Refuge in the Togo-Volta highlands of Ghana.
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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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Success Stories

Saving real acres of rainforest

“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 Deutsch
PhD, 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 Deutsch
CEO, 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 Hawking
Physicist & Author

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Dr. Jane Goodall
Scientist & 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. Wilson
Two-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 Deutsch
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 Deutsch
CEO, 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. Wilson
Two-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. Wilson
Two-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. Wilson
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and former Rainforest Trust Board Member

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