Rainforest Foundation US partners with Indigenous peoples and local communities across the rainforests of the Amazon and Central America to protect their territories.

At the critical intersection of environmental protection and human rights, we focus on three priority areas: Land Rights, Rainforest Protection, and Strengthening Organizations.

A video message from a community in Menkragnoti Territory calling for solidarity in the fight against deforestation.

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

Team members from Rainforest Foundation US (RFUS) helped convene a meeting of the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities (GATC)—the world’s largest indigenous peoples’ coalition— in Geneva, Switzerland.

To counteract climate change, we must protect indigenous peoples. Rainforest Foundation US’s Executive Director lays out why.

More than 50,000 people marched in the “Great People’s March” during COP30, calling for an end to violence against land defenders, a halt to environmental destruction, and a global phaseout

The city of Iquitos, Peru, hosted an event dedicated to the protection of Amazonian wildlife. Organized by Rainforest Foundation US, the Regional Organization of Indigenous Peoples of the East (ORPIO),

For three years in a row, Vox has featured Rainforest Foundation US in an article that lists high-impact organizations addressing the climate crisis.

Earlier this month, the United Nations’ climate change panel released a report stating that global warming will inevitably intensify in the coming decades. The only question is: By how much?