For over 35 years, Rainforest Foundation US (RFUS) has been protecting rainforests in Latin America in partnership with the forests’ greatest protectors: the Indigenous peoples who call them home. Your support enables RFUS to provide the tools, training, and resources that ensure the rainforests’ best guardians are able to defend their rights and forests. We partner with Indigenous peoples to secure legal recognition of their lands, protect their forests through monitoring, and build strong governance for managing their territories through capacity strengthening.

Our partnership with Indigenous partners advances nature-based carbon sequestration, as forests protected by Indigenous peoples have reduced deforestation and remain strong carbon sinks.

In 2024, RFUS’s work on Indigenous land titling and forest monitoring in Peru, Brazil, Guyana, and Panama supported communities to achieve a net annual carbon sink of 9.8 million metric tons of CO2e¹ on their lands—equivalent to the annual emission of more than 2 million gas vehicles or 1.3 million homes.