Rainforest Foundation US
@RainforestUS
Protecting rainforests and our climate in partnership with Indigenous peoples since 1988
Do you value: 🐒 Healthy Rainforests ✊Indigenous Peoples’ Rights 🌎Climate Action? So do we! Click to learn more about the ways you can support our work. Together, we can protect forests and tackle the climate crisis 👇 rainforestfoundation.org/give/?segmentC…
Huge thanks to @basejumpxyz ! We just received the first installment of their pledge to donate 5% of profits to help defend the Indigenous Matsés people's territory in the Amazon 🌳💚 Keep playing 🎮! you're helping protect one of the world’s most vital rainforest ecosystems in…
To protect the world’s rainforests, support Indigenous peoples. 🚨In 2024, the world lost over 16 million acres of primary rainforest——the highest in 20+ years. Indigenous peoples play a crucial role in keeping rainforests standing. In the Amazon, they protect nearly one-third…
On this International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem, we share their story and ours as one. The future of our coasts rests on the wisdom of its oldest guardians, us. #MangroveDay #IndigenousLeadership #CoastalResilience #ProtectMangroves @rumahAMAN…
🚨 Brazilian Congress has just approved the so‑called #DevastationBill, a massive rollback of environmental protections. If enacted, projects with medium polluting potential (including most mining and agribusiness) could self‑approve licenses online with no prior impact studies…
🌿 Join us to put mangrove conservation and community voices at the center! 🌊 Mangroves connect ocean, culture & life. Indigenous leaders & fishers from Latin America will share experiences & proposals. Be part of this conversation for climate justice & territorial governance!…
🌱 ✊A major new project led by @aidesep_org and the Regional Government of Loreto, in partnership with @RainforestUS and @RainforestTrust will support 41 Indigenous communities in Peru 🇵🇪to secure legal titles to 550,000 acres of ancestral rainforest — an area about the size of…
🌳🛰️"We have more tools than ever to help us combat deforestation" – Crystal Davis, Global Program Director at @WorldResources, in conversation with Mongabay. ✊We're proud to see our work in Peru featured in this interview on the top tools to protect rainforests. 📽️Video…
It's their planet too 💚 Let’s stand up for rainforest protection and all the incredible wildlife that call it home.
While Brazil highlights the Indigenous concept of #mutirão (a collective effort rooted in community and solidarity) the government’s recent approval of the Devastation Bill (PL da Devastação) threatens to undo everything by weakening environmental protections and opening the…
“The answer is us—all of us.” Last month at the First Global Forest Basins Congress in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, Indigenous peoples and local communities from the world’s major forest basins came together with one urgent message: The future of Earth’s forests, and the…
In 🇵🇦Panama’s Darién region, Embera Wounaan women weave chunga palm leaves 🌴 into intricate handcrafted pieces, an ancestral tradition passed down through generations and a vital source of income. But sourcing chunga palm, essential to their crafts, has become increasingly…
In 2024, Anibal’s community was one of 20—that secured legal titles to their ancestral lands in the Amazon rainforest. Have you seen our 2024 Annual Report yet? It highlights some of the milestones made possible thanks to the support of people like you ⬇️ rainforestfoundation.org/about/financia…
🚨Today is World Rainforest Day, but the numbers tell a troubling story. In 2024, the world lost over 16 million acres of primary rainforest—more than in any previous year of the past two decades, according to @WorldResources. The world must act urgently to curb this…