OUR #1 CLIMATE SOLUTION
RECOMMENDATION
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PROTECT RAINFORESTS
​and INDIGENOUS communitIES
IN AFRICA

$2.32 per acre
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Sapo National Park, Liberia

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1. Click this Donate Now link to make a 100% TAX DEDUCTIBLE gift to our nonprofit partner RainforestTrust.org.
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2. Choose the project ​Community Empowerment to Protect Rainforests in Liberia ​in the first menu. Fill out the form and make your donation. 


3. Done!​ As a thank you we will email you a customized Contributor's Report highlighting the global-scale benefits of your donation. ​

THE PLACE

​THE rainforests


​​"EXCEPTIONALLY DIVERSE"

"very HIGH RATES OF unique, LOCAL species"
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Engage four local clans in the establishment of five Community Forests across 318,520 acres of the Upper Guinea Forest System. This historic effort to increase protected, old-growth ecosystems in this critical region of West Africa maximizes connectivity between existing protected areas and creates a buffer around Gola Rainforest National Park.

​Project Synopsis
Help the historic effort to empower 4 indigenous communities, save 7 endangered species, and protect +135 tons stored CO2 per acre, in Liberia’s threatened Upper Guinea forests. 

Highlights
  • 29% funded 
  • 1 to 1 donation match 
  • $10 protects 8.6 acres with donation match
  • $16 donation protects an amount of stored CO2 equivalent to your lifetime carbon footprint 
  • Critical habitat
  • Prevents extinctions
  • Community-centric plan
  • Biodiversity treasure trove 
  • Creates 5 community-owned forests
  • Strong in-country, international, and indigenous partners
  • Prevents release of +135 tons biologically-stored CO2 per acre
  • Strengthens protection of critical wildlife corridors, habitat, and wildernesses
  • Expands land protections for the Tonglay, Normon, Gola Konneh, and Sokpo clans
  • Maintains global atmospheric moisture flows, essential to Earth's temperate climate and weather 
  • Is partnered with, and creates a buffer around, the REDD+ certified Gola Rainforest National Park project​
  • Absorbs immense solar heat, converts that energy into immense biological productivity, i.e. making food and oxygen and sequestering CO2 on a daily basis
  • Protects more than 300,000 acres of old growth tropical rainforests in critically-affected and vulnerable areas
  • ​No fees extracted from your donation
  • 100% Tax deductible
 

​CLIMATE SYSTEM SIGNIFICANCE

Protecting this ecosystem is a necessity for maintaining Earth's temperate climate. Liberia's geography situates it such that its impacts on the global climate system are immense.
  • Emissions Reduction: one acre of this project likely sequesters well more than one ton Carbon Dioxide (CO2) per year, on average. Thus, making a $2.32 donation to this project is at least as effective in annual emissions reduction as the average rooftop solar system. 
  • Emisssions Storage: each acre stores and cycles well more than 135 tons CO2 in its thick soils and vegetation. Every 13.3 acres you protect, is equivalent to offsetting one U.S. citizen's entire lifetime carbon footprint. 
  • Climate System: the Amazon's extensive forests and waterways service Earth's global atmospheric system in at least five ways: 1) by providing safe, massive, long-term carbon storage and cycling, 2) by providing an enormous heat buffer who's well being co-determines the rate of global warming, 3) by providing safe, long-term moisture storage and cycling at the equator where it's planetarity most significant, 4) by being a key influence on tropical tradewinds and thereby global winds, 5) by providing local to continental-scale moisture balancing.
  • The Weather: All of the above conspire to make tropical forests a primary maintainer of today's temperate weather, heat, and moisture cycles. Tropical forests have perhaps the greatest influence over the rate of global warming and the intensity and reliability of atmospheric circulation at the equator, of any ecosystem. Their influence on global heat and moisture define aspects of both the global climate system and your weather now. For example, tropical forests are known to be low pressure ecosystems with enough atmospheric influence to significantly reduce hurricane intensity, if not formation. 

BIODIVERSITY
​on site

Mega-diverse, Super-local. By protecting this ancient tropical forest 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 here. These myriad species' interactions conspire to maintain a super-productive, globally-influential ecosystem who's primary benefit is keeping our Earth cool, fertile, and productive year-round. This project protects pristine forests in Liberia. Thousands of unique organisms coexist here in a living wilderness that stores carbon, makes oxygen, filters freshwater, pumps moisture around our planet, absorbs Earth's most intense solar heat, makes food, and reduces greenhouse gas emissions more effectively than any technology.

Recognized by conservationists around the world as a top priority, this PROJECT HELPS form the largest remnant of thIS Biodiversity Hotspot. 

"Community Empowerment to Protect Forests in Liberia" is home to 7 Endangered species. 
As identified by the IUCN Red List: 
  • Chimpanzee 
  • Pygmy Hippopotamus
  • Upper Guinea Red Colobus
  • Jentink’s Duiker
  • Gola Malimbe
  • Tai Toad
  • Ringed River Frog
Flagship species include the Chimpanzee, the Pygmy Hippopotamus, the Upper Guinea Red Colobus, and the Gola Malimbe (bird). Gola Forest Park and surrounding buffers support +300 bird species. The region is also home to at least 31 fish species, 600 butterfly species and 43 amphibian species. At least 70% of this invaluable ecosystem has already been destroyed, Liberia holds the most significant remaining portion of the ecosystem at 42%. This project dramatically expands protection of this irreplaceable biodiversity hotspot and productivity engine. 

​INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
LIVING HERE

The area was highly disturbed during the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone, leaving many villages were abandoned. Currently, the population is comprised of a wide range of ethnicities with Gola representing the majority. Local communities involved in the project are represented by the Tonglay, Normon, Gola Konneh, and Sokpo clans. Primary sources of income in these communities include artisanal diamond mining and commercial bushmeat hunting, which are illegal. The area attracts miners and bushmeat hunters from across Liberia as well as neighboring countries. The Normon, Toglay and Gola Konneh clans have worked with the partner previously. The Sokpo clan specifically requested assistance with the establishment of Community Forests after noticing the successes of nearby clans.  

PARTNERSHIPS

One Community Forest will be developed with each of the Tonglay, Normon, and Gola Konneh clans while two Community Forests will be developed in collaboration with the Sopko clan. Land-use plans will be developed to implement zoning schemes, ensuring the protection of areas of high conservation value.

BioIntegrity is supporting Rainforest Trust and The Society for the Conservation of Nature of Liberia with this fundraising effort. All donations are 100% tax deductible. By donating directly to Rainforest Trust 100% of your gift will go to Liberia. No fees will be extracted from your donation. BioIntegrity and Rainforest Trust cover all associated costs. RainforestTrust.org has been serving the world for more than 30 years. They currently have a 100% rating from Charity Navigator and have worked all over the world to protect more than 20 million acres of tropical forests and ecosystems. 
Help Protect 318,000 Acres of Africa's Last Rainforests!
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