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Though impact can be measured in many ways, here are some highlights of our impact in protecting rainforests. Since our funding, we have secured over 43 million acres of Indigenous
What can you do to protect the rainforest? It turns out quite a bit, even if you don’t live near one! Here’s a list with opportunities to take action.
Join Treehouse, Our Monthly Giving Program. Treehouse is where the fiercest advocates for rainforests, human rights, and our planet’s future come together.
Rainforest Foundation US (RFUS), alongside Indigenous partners, has long advocated for a proven solution to mitigate the impacts of climate change—securing Indigenous peoples’ rights to their ancestral lands in Latin
Homes on the Amazon River in Iquitos, Peru
The latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts increasingly unstable water availability. Trace the stories of our indigenous partners who are already seeing these impacts and what
Forest monitors from RFUS and ORPIO walk along the dry bed of the Amazon River near San Augusto, Peru. Photo: Plinio Pizango Hualinga l Rainforest Foundation US
A severe drought in the Amazon is disrupting transportation, isolating communities, and putting wildlife at risk for survival. Indigenous peoples in the region are urging their governments to declare a
The voluntary carbon market is quickly evolving and being introduced in new territories, making it challenging to sort out who’s who and what the implications are for impacted communities. To
Funded by a $2 million grant from US Agency for International Development (USAID), the B’atz project has worked on multiple fronts over the past three years to enhance the capacity
This drought is the worst in four decades and is contributing to an alarming number of fires this year raging across multiple regions throughout the Amazon and posing a threat
In response to COVID-19, four indigenous leaders prepare bags of food and medical supplies to distribute to communities
RFUS is supporting our indigenous partners with deliveries of food and medical supplies as they battle Covid-19 in their communities.
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