EARTH DAY 2021

All gifts matched 1:1 up to $920K. Your gift will have DOUBLE the impact!

Fighting Climate Change by Protecting the World’s Most Important Tropical Forests

In the midst of the worsening climate crisis, tropical deforestation is once again on the rise. In 2020 alone, the world lost over 30.1 million acres of tropical forest – an area larger than the state of Pennsylvania. That’s nearly an acre per second.

This rampant destruction dumped into our atmosphere 2.64 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide, more than double all annual vehicle emissions in the USA.

We must act now.

Take a stand for our planet this Earth Day and donate to our new Rainforest Climate Action Fund to support two projects that protect forests which cost-effectively store and sequester vast quantities of carbon.

PREVENT THIS…

FROM BECOMING THIS.

Donating to this fund may be the most efficient way to fight climate change right now. Together, we will work to permanently lock up 15 billion tonnes of carbon by 2025.

All gifts will be matched 1:1 up to $920,000.

We’d like to thank our founding donors to the Rainforest Climate Action Fund for offering a match in celebration of Earth Day: Bruce and Jian Irish, Docusign, Jefferies LLC, and Gerald, Keith, Rosemary and Julia Bradley.

The RAINFOREST CLIMATE ACTION FUND will support
high-impact projects like these.

BOLIVIA

Bolivia is ranked third in the world for forest loss, with the country’s Bajo Paragua forest as ground zero in the fight to save the Amazon Rainforest from logging, fire, and conversion to agriculture. During the terrible fire season of 2020, nearly 10% of the forest burned. If these trends continue, the entire forest will be lost in just a few years along with 354,251,601 metric tonnes of carbon. To hold the line, Rainforest Trust and our partner, Fundación Natura Bolivia are working to create the San Ignacio and Concepcion Municipal Protected Areas, safeguarding the majority of this landscape – over 2 million acres of rich, old-growth, lowland rainforest.

ECUADOR

Ecuador’s Chocó rainforest, the fourth most important biodiversity hotspot in the world, experiences the fastest deforestation rate in the country – less than 2% of the original vegetation remains. Rainforest Trust and our long-time partner, Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco, have an incredible opportunity to purchase 53,907 acres from two prominent logging companies and completely remove the practice from the Chocó forever. This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to keep 12,818,952 metric tonnes of carbon – equivalent to the electricity emissions of every home in Maryland for one year – stored in the Earth to stabilize our planet’s climate.

WHY SAVE RAINFOREST?

70% of the known cancer fighting plants exist only in the rainforest.

Deforestation releases as much carbon as the entire global transportation sector each year.

Nearly 70,000 acres of tropical rainforest are lost every day.

The majority of the world’s plants and animals are found in rainforests.

Habitat for Hundreds of
Species Protected

34 Million +
Acres Saved

30 + Years of
Conservation Successes

Rainforest Trust was founded on the premise that all rainforests, especially those replete with endangered species and endemic biodiversity, should be priority conservation sites, and that protection provides the best means of preventing destruction.

Protecting the most threatened tropical forests.

Our unique, cost-effective conservation model for protecting endangered species has been implemented successfully for over 30 years. Protection requires swift action, and we implement scientifically-based conservation plans that are not only timely, but also resilient and sustainable. With your support, we work tirelessly to permanently protect rainforests and other vital habitat throughout the world.

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The RAINFOREST CLIMATE ACTION FUND will support
high-impact projects like these.

BOLIVIA

ECUADOR

Rainforest Trust was founded on the premise that all rainforests, especially those replete with endangered species and endemic biodiversity, should be priority conservation sites, and that protection provides the best means of preventing destruction.

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The RAINFOREST CLIMATE ACTION FUND will support high-impact projects like these.

BOLIVIA

ECUADOR

Rainforest Trust was founded on the premise that all rainforests, especially those replete with endangered species and endemic biodiversity, should be priority conservation sites, and that protection provides the best means of preventing destruction.

Quicklinks

Headquarters

Connect With Us

Ways to Help

The RAINFOREST CLIMATE ACTION FUND will support
high-impact projects like these.