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

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

It's their planet too 💚 Let’s stand up for rainforest protection and all the incredible wildlife that call it home.

🌳🛰️"We have more tools than ever to help us combat deforestation" – Crystal Davis, Global Program Director at World Resources Institute, 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

🌱 ✊A major new project led by AIDESEP and the Regional Government of Loreto, in partnership with Rainforest Foundation US and Rainforest Trust will support 41 Indigenous communities in Peru 🇵🇪to secure legal titles to 550,000 acres of ancestral rainforest — an area about the size of

🌿 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!

🚨 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

Huge thanks to Basejump ! 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

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

Yesterday was World Nature Conservation Day. 👉It's time to decolonize conservation. ⚠️While environmental conservation is crucial to our collective survival, any form of conservation that does not respect the rights of Black, Indigenous, and local communities is simply

Shades of green 🍃 Rainforest therapy 💚 Share it with someone who needs a moment of calm today.

Can you imagine the impact if we understood that direct financing is the bridge, not the destination? Defending our rights takes steady support and ongoing collaboration to ensure our demands are not only heard, but acted upon. 👉🏻 First, we strengthen our own organizations and

✊Brazil’s capital has once again become a space of collective resistance, as thousands of Indigenous women from across the country, the Amazon Basin, and the world unite for the IV March of Indigenous Women. The convening has emerged as a critical space for political strategy

⚠️ Across the United States and the Amazon Basin, decades of progress toward protecting rainforests and Indigenous rights are under threat. New laws are rolling back environmental safeguards, opening the door to unchecked exploitation. ⚠️ In the US, the “One Big Beautiful Bill

🏹 In celebration of the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, 📚 we're sharing a reading list featuring some of our staff's favorite works by Indigenous authors. These books span genres and geographies, offering windows into Indigenous cultures, histories, and

For centuries, many people in the Western world imagined the Amazon as an unpopulated and untouched wilderness. In truth, Indigenous peoples have shaped and managed it for thousands of years. Our article "The Ancestral Forest" explores how—through the creation of fertile soils