What can you do globally?
support the #1 SOLUTION​ For Earth's Future

Protect  Tropical  forests.

Why?

Tropical forests, around the world

​humanity's #1 PRIORITY
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TROPICAL forests

Climate. Weather. Biodiversity. Life-support System. Human history. Human rights. Tropical Forests are Earth's most biodiverse and bioproductive ecosystems, their wellbeing determines our wellbeing in many domains. They contain more carbon than any other land-based ecosystem. They are Earth's most biodiverse ecosystems. Their contain more indigenous tribes and have greater influence on global moisture and atmospheric circulation than any other productive ecosystem. Your support of Rainforest Trust's Conservation Action Fund maximizes cost-efficiency. There are numerous great groups, but we have enjoyed a long relationship with RainforestTrust.org.

Rainforest Trust focuses on saving real acres of rainforest by aligning indigenous rights agreements, land purchases, conservation resources, and government designations. Each of their projects is crucial to preserving critical habitat for endangered species.

Protect Tropical Forests

Help historic efforts around the world to empower indigenous communities, save endangered species, and protect +150 tons of forest-stored CO2 per acre, on average, by supporting this exemplary nonprofit organization's overall conservation program.

Our Criteria

• Super cost efficient 
• Prevents extinctions
• 100% Tax deductible
• ​Protects critical habitat
• Biodiversity treasure trove 
• Protects endangered species 
• Preserves wilderness integrity
• Built on long-term partnerships
• Community and indigenous-centric programs
• Strong in-country, international, and indigenous partners on team
• ​Prevents release of +150 tons biologically-stored CO2 per acre (average)
• Strengthens protection of critical wildlife corridors, habitats, and wildernesses
• ​No fees extracted from your donation (Conservation team pays all transaction fees)
• Expands land protections and land rights for indigenous peoples as primary strategy
• Maintains global atmospheric circulation and moisture flows; essential to stable climate and weather 
• Affordably can protect an amount of living forest-carbon greater than your entire, lifetime carbon footprint 
• Contributes to the ongoing protection of rainforests in critically-affected and vulnerable areas year after year​
• Protects ongoing absorption of immense solar heat and the continuious conversion of that warming energy into immense biological productivity (aka. photosynthesis), e.g. making food and oxygen, circulating moisture, cooling the global atmosphere and oceans, and holding and sequestering CO2 on a daily basis at globally-beneficial scale. 

​​global CLIMATE  
​system SIGNIFICANCE

Protecting this ecosystem is a necessity for maintaining Earth's temperate climate. Tropical Forest's equatorial location situates them such that their influence on the global climate system is immense.

• Emissions Reduction. One acre of this project likely sequesters at least half a ton (.5 tons) Carbon Dioxide (CO2) per year, on average. Thus, a small donation to this project removes more CO2 per year than an entire, average-sized, rooftop solar system. 
• Emissions Storage. Each acre stores and cycles at least 150 tons CO2 in its trees, soils, animal life, and vegetation, on average. Every 12 acres you protect contains an amount of CO2 equivalent to, or greater than, one U.S. citizen's entire lifetime carbon footprint. 
• Global "Climate." Tropical forests' extensive vegetation and waterways service Earth's global atmospheric system in at least five ways: 1) Carbon storage, by providing massive, long-term carbon storage and cycling, 2) Heat absorption, by providing an enormous heat buffer, which co-determines the rate of global warming, 3) Moisture services, by providing massive, ongoing storage, cycling, and balancing of atmospheric, ground, and subteranean moisture at local to continental scale, at the Equator where it is most planetarily significant, 4) Atmospheric circulation, by being a key influence on tropical tradewinds, 5) Moisture circulation, by directing and characterizing inter-hemispheric moisture exchanges and the equatorial / tropical / subtropical moisture flows, which are root determiners of temperate and high-latitude atmospheric moisture availability.
• Your Weather. All of the above conspire to make tropical forests a primary determiner and maintainer of today's weather, no matter where you live. Tropical forests have perhaps the greatest influence on atmospheric moisture circulation and global warming of any productive ecosystem. Not only does their collective influence define root conditions of your weather every day, all year long, they also dramatically affect extreme weather. For example, tropical rainforests are known to be low pressure ecosystems with enough atmospheric influence to significantly reduce hurricane intensity and formation. 

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​BIODIVERSITY  significance

​EARTH'S RICHEST ECOSYSTEMS
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Mega-diverse, Super-local. VERY HIGH RATES OF UNIQUE AND LOCAL SPECIES​. These are Earth's most biodiverse and bioproductive ecosystems. By protecting ancient tropical forests you're helping protect a series of ecosystems powered by an enormous range of land, river and soil species. A rich community of irreplaceable bird, reptile, amphibian, plant, mammal, fish, insect, and microbial species thrive and co-produce in tropical forests. These myriad species' trades and interactions conspire to maintain a super-productive, globally-influential, super-fertile ecosystem who's primary benefit is keeping Earth cool, temperate and productive year-round. Thousands of unique organisms coexist in these wildernesses. Because of the super high biodiversity of tropical rainforests, this fund is helping to protect 10s of thousands of species all over the tropics. 

50% of earth's biodiversity
lives in tropical forests...
Protecting tropical forests
protects ENDANGERED SPECIES.

​​INDIGENOUS  PEOPLES' EMPOWERMENT

Today, tropical forests are homelands to the majority of the world's indigenous communities, and relocation grounds for many new communities. With more than 30 years of experience, Rainforest Trust has found time and again that by integrating and supporting the local community's vision for long-term stewardship of their forests, everyone wins. The Conservation Action Fund focuses on achieving social justice, cultural empowerment, land occupation rights, community-based, sustainable economic development (including education and healthcare development), greater community cohesion, and ongoing native input, stewardship, and shared decision making. This fund helps indigenous communities all over the tropics protect their homelands in perpetuity. 

One testimonial

​"WE (as in all of US) can literally SAVE endangered forests and the millions of species and thousands of indigenous peoples they support, and RESTORE millions of acres of tropical forest that have already been damaged. How can WE do this, and why is this the most efficient and direct way to use a few dollars each to help EARTH and all of US dodge a whole bunch of bad outcomes predicted by scientists? SIMPLE: we each give a small amount to literally buy and directly protect tropical forests, a forest at a time, like this one. Protecting one acre of tropical forest offers the same climate benefits as installing 1-4 rooftop solar power systems/per year. Imagine donating $50 and accomplishing the same carbon offset benefit as $750,000 of solar power systems. Yeah, I know that is really cool, right? Let's do this."
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— Dr. Marc Gitterle

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