Proven Impact
A peer-reviewed study verifies that the Rainforest Alert methodology can decrease deforestation on Indigenous peoples’ lands.
Here’s what the study says
- In the first year of the study alone, threatened Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon saw a 52 percent reduction in forest loss.
- Indigenous peoples who have access to satellite images and smartphones can reduce unauthorized deforestation in their territories.
- Over time, Indigenous communities became more effective and efficient at detecting and addressing deforestation as it happens.
Our analysis shows that expanding the Rainforest Alert program across the Amazon could reduce carbon dioxide emissions from deforestation to the tune of taking 21 million cars off the road. And do so cost-effectively, at only $3 per hectare per year.
Read about the study and the potential to scale it across the Amazon:
