Rainforest Trust

World land and biodiversity conservation: since 1988, Rainforest Trust has conserved areas in the tropics and subtropics through partnerships with local organizations which yield government designation of new protected areas, the purchase of land for private nature reserves, and strengthening land-tenure and guardianship of indigenous people and local communities. This work yields three areas of impact: ending the biodiversity crisis by slowing and reversing the extinction of species, stemming climate change by permanently locking up carbon and protecting nature's ability to sequester carbon from the atmosphere, and contributing to the rights and livelihoods of indigenous people and local communities.program service accomplishments:for species: Rainforest Trust reserves currently provide criticalhabitat for 31% of all iucn red list threatened terrestrial mammalspecies and 37% of threatened terrestrial birds.for climate: Rainforest Trust projects have permanently locked up 7.4billion metric tons of co2 equivalent, more than a year's worth of usgreenhouse gas emissions.for people: approximately 65% of acres protected or conserved withrainforest Trust funding have supported the recognition of the rights,governance capacity and/or territorial management by indigenous orlocal communities, including through securing land tenure and resource rights, and Rainforest Trust projects have provided jobs, livelihood benefits, and the safeguarding of ecosystem services such as fresh water to millions of people. In 2023, Rainforest Trust agreed new projects totaling over $46 million and protected over 1.5 million acres of habitat.