Our Rainforest Climate Action Fund supports projects that cost-effectively store and sequester vast quantities of carbon. Healthy forests. Healthy planet.
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Species at Risk
Critically Endangered, Endangered, and Vulnerable
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Carbon stored
Per acre average of 153 mT*
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Partner
Various Local Partners
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3,300,000 Proposed Acres Conserved by
Purchase/Designation/Community Reserve
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Project Cost: $5,000,000
3,300,000
Our Rainforest Climate Action Fund supports projects that cost-effectively store and sequester vast quantities of carbon. Healthy forests. Healthy planet.
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Species at Risk
Critically Endangered, Endangered, and Vulnerable
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Carbon stored
Per acre average of 153 mT*
*(metric tons of CO2 equivalents) -
Partner
Various Local Partners
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3,300,000 Proposed Acres Conserved by
Purchase/Designation/Community Reserve
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Project Cost: £3,968,253
3,300,000
2X THE IMPACT
For the next $1,000,000 donated, every $1 will be matched by $1—giving your gift 2X the impact—thanks to the Troper Wojcicki Foundation.
DOUBLE YOUR DONATIONDOUBLE YOUR DONATIONHelp Stop Climate Change—Save Rainforests
Rainforests provide natural climate solutions, working for our benefit today. They absorb and store carbon, support biodiversity, and regulate the climate. Saving them offers a cost-effective, immediate strategy to the world’s urgent climate crisis. Yet, among forest types around the world, tropical forests face the highest risk.
Our Rainforest Climate Action Fund prioritizes projects that:
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- halt destruction of carbon-dense forests, or “carbon vaults”
- protect landscapes with the greatest storage of carbon per dollar
- avoid immediate, destructive carbon emissions
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Protect rainforests to protect our planet
The world lost over 16.5 million acres of primary tropical forest in 2024—an area almost the size of South Carolina. That’s 18 soccer fields per minute. Destruction doubled from the previous year and dumped 3.1 gigatonnes of carbon into our atmosphere—equivalent to India’s annual CO2 emissions.
The consequences of increased carbon dioxide emissions—and worsening climate change—are impacting people and nature every day:
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- Stronger hurricanes
- Record-breaking heatwaves
- Prolonged droughts
- Catastrophic wildfires
- Life-threatening floods
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Protecting tropical forests is one of the best ways each of us can fight climate change right now.
Rainforests hold some of the world’s most carbon-rich ecosystems, like mangrove forests and peatlands. They keep our planet’s climate in balance and protect people and wildlife from climate change impacts.

Rainforest Trust projects have stored
metric tons of carbon equivalents. Comparable to the annual emissions from more than 4 billion gas-powered vehicles.
We must act now.
With climate disasters escalating, your donation is the fastest, most effective way to protect the planet. Your donation goes directly to projects that cost-effectively store and sequester vast quantities of carbon.
We cannot save the Earth without you. Donate now and stop rainforest destruction before it’s too late.
Supporters taking action around the world.
Explore Forest Types
Donate to the Rainforest Climate Action Fund to support high-impact projects in three types of forest:
Frontier Forests
These forests massively reduce carbon emissions in the immediate future because they protect forest in imminent danger of destruction—a so-called "frontier" providing a protective barrier, keeping dense forest intact.
Super-Sequesterers
Forests inundated by water are particularly efficient sequesterers because the water blocks the oxygen required for carbon-releasing decomposition. These include flooded forests, swamp forests, peat forests and mangroves.
Carbon Vaults
These forests lock up carbon in large, tall, intact hardwoods in perpetuity for a reasonable cost. These large trees store vast amounts of carbon in their wood, roots and soil, preventing the release of huge amounts of carbon.
Amazon Rainforest, by Panga Media
Rainforest Climate Action Fund Updates
Rainforest Trust’s Climate Action Fund supports projects that cost-effectively store and sequester vast quantities of carbon.
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Focus on Climate Report 2025
April 2025
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RCAF Update
March 2024
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RCAF Update
January 2023
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