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UK Philanthropy & Funders

Partner to save species and protect our planet

Businesses, Trusts and Foundations across the UK can play a vital role in saving the world’s most critical lands and waters.

By partnering with Rainforest Trust UK, your funding can permanently protect tropical habitat so that species can thrive, ecosystems flourish, and the planet’s natural systems return to balance.

Working alongside local NGOs, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, Rainforest Trust turns your support into enduring protection for wild places and the climate systems that sustain all life.

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Why Partner With Us?

We are at a defining moment for the future of life on Earth. Nowhere is this more urgent than across the tropics, where habitat loss is driving species extinction and destabilising our climate. The solution is to protect our planet’s wild lands and waters.

We Deliver Proven, Lasting Impact

Since 1988, Rainforest Trust has helped protect more than 69 million acres of rainforest across 69 countries. 98% of forests in our protected areas remain intact today, demonstrating the long-term success of our conservation model.

We Build Trusted Partnerships

We work closely with UK funders to identify and select projects that align with your strategic priorities, geographic focus, and impact goals, ensuring every partnership delivers meaningful and measurable outcomes. We provide highly impactful and cost-effective conservation opportunities that meet 11 of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs) and are recognised as a top nonprofit climate solution by the Global Returns Project.

We Provide Transparent Reporting

We provide clear reporting and measurable results, with conservation outcomes tracked acre by acre to ensure full transparency and accountability. Learn more about Rainforest Trust UK and access our annual reports.

What Your Support Makes Possible

Your support helps Rainforest Trust protect real acres of rainforest through land purchases and designations. This work slows climate change, prevents deforestation, preserves biodiversity, and supports local communities.

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“For anyone looking to make a difference in climate change or conservation, we would recommend Rainforest Trust. It is a highly cost-effective raiser of funds which are carefully deployed at scale to the best operating partners—local charities and the Indigenous communities they support—protecting millions of acres each year. As climate change has become a race against the clock, we think it’s crucial to back those environmental charities that have the highest possible impact, getting the most done as quickly and efficiently as possible. ”

– Mike & Helen Brown Charitable Trust

Global Partners

Your Support Has A Lasting Impact

Our Impact

Preserving critical habitats around the globe

Since 1988, 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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Success Stories

Saving real acres of rainforest

"Rainforest Trust has my highest respect and in my opinion deserves support for its reserve-creating projects which have 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

"Rainforest Trust has my highest respect and in my opinion deserves support for its reserve-creating projects which have 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 since 1988.”

James C. Deutsch, Ph.D.
CEO of 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 since 1988,” 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

“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 since 1988,” 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

“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 since 1988.”

James C. Deutsch, Ph.D.
CEO of 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

“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 since 1988,” 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 since 1988.”

James C. Deutsch, Ph.D.
CEO of Rainforest Trust

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

Dr. Jane Goodall
Scientist & Activist

"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