Our Vision A world where the rights of Indigenous peoples are respected and rainforests flourish. Our Purpose The purpose of Rainforest Foundation US is to support Indigenous peoples and forest

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

2025 Annual Impact Report A view of one of RFUS’s partner Ticuna communities in the Upper Napo region of the Peruvian Amazon, photographed during a team visit in May 2025.

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

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

Indigenous peoples’ territories across four countries sequester more than 9.8 Million Metric Tons of CO2e—equivalent to the annual emission of more than 2 million gas vehicles or 1.3 million homes.

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

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