Saving the world isn’t possible without people
All of our projects start and end with dedicated people
We establish strategic partnerships with the world’s most experienced and committed conservationists and their organizations across the tropics. Together, we identify critical sites that will benefit most from permanent protection.
The Unsung Heroes of Conservation
Fundación ProAves Guardian, Cristian Andrés Vásquez Bermúdez, performs field monitoring of the El Dorado reserve's La Cumbre section in Colombia.
Our Indonesian partner, FKL, encountering poachers traveling by boat. The work performed by the Guardians–who monitor and survey the land and its species–while rewarding, can be a very dangerous job.
KTK-Belt Guardian, Kamala Rai, performs household surveys in the community of Okharbote, Nepal.
YUS Conservation Area rangers Ken (left) and Stanis (middle) and Conservation Officer Chris (right) practice using a PDA to collect data in the field.
San Luis, Philippines forest guards work with local partner, Daluhay, to monitor and survey areas of rainforest and the species that call it home.
Herp Conservation Guardian, Caleb Ofori, discovering the Togo Slippery Frog in the Onepone Refuge in the Togo-Volta highlands of Ghana.
Free, prior and informed consent
Indigenous people steward three-quarters of the world’s remaining biodiversity. Many of our projects bolster that stewardship, securing ownership and management of land and natural resources for local and indigenous people. Every one of our projects engages with local and indigenous people, and none proceeds without their freely given, prior, fully informed consent (FPIC).
Saving real acres of rainforest
Saving Indigenous Lands in the Amazon
Final Push to Protect Critical Peruvian Amazon Watershed
Empowering Communities to Save the Philippine Eagle
Empower Indigenous Communities to Protect a Cloud Forest in Peru
Community Empowerment to Protect Rainforests in Liberia
"This fruitful and long-lasting relationship has resulted in the protection and sustainable management of millions of beautiful acres of Peruvian Amazon, securing legal ownership of Indigenous territories and establishing natural protected areas co-managed by local Indigenous communities.”
Dani RiveraCEDIA Project Director
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
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
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
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
Who makes our work possible?
You make it possible
Our work is made possible entirely by voluntary contributions from private individuals and a few companies. Every gift, no matter the size, makes a difference to the world’s rainforests and their inhabitants.
Our work is made possible entirely by voluntary contributions from private individuals and a few companies. Every gift, no matter the size, makes a difference to the world’s rainforests and their inhabitants.
A lean team
Because 100% of donations go directly to conservation action, we keep our team lean and full of dedicated individuals who work to carry out our mission.
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Because 100% of donations go directly to conservation action, we keep our team lean and full of dedicated individuals who work to carry out our mission.
Many thanks to our local partners in the field who make our work possible.
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