Rainforest Trust UK

Rainforest Trust UK Rainforest Trust purchases and protects the most threatened tropical forests, saving endangered wildlife through partnerships and community engagement.

Rainforest Trust UK purchases and protects the most threatened tropical forests, saving endangered wildlife through partnerships and community engagement. Through these local partnerships, we empower indigenous people to own and steward their own lands while offering them education, training, and economic assistance. This training includes employing them as reserve guards and wildlife monitors. This highly effective community-inclusive model ensures long-lasting results for all the biodiversity within the forests we help to purchase and protect.

70 million acres protected! 🌎🌿Thanks to donors like you, Rainforest Trust has surpassed 70 million acres protected world...
08/10/2026

70 million acres protected! 🌎🌿

Thanks to donors like you, Rainforest Trust has surpassed 70 million acres protected worldwide! That’s an area roughly the same size as Ecuador, just eight months after reaching the 60 million-acre milestone.

Together with dedicated partners and local communities, you have helped us accelerate the pace of conservation for some of the planet’s most important places for biodiversity, climate and people.

Reaching 70 million acres is a measure of progress and a reminder of the scale of work still ahead.

It has never been more urgent to invest in rainforests.

As we continue our work to protect millions more acres, we are truly grateful for your support.

Link below to find out more about our work to protect rainforests and critical habitat, and help support conservation action now.

https://www.rainforesttrust.org/urgent-projects/conservation-action-fund/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social+media&utm_campaign=70M+acres

📸 Matses and Madre de Dios Territorial Reserve courtesy of CEDIA

Writing your will could be the most extraordinary thing you do for our planet this month. It is a powerful way to protec...
08/10/2026

Writing your will could be the most extraordinary thing you do for our planet this month. It is a powerful way to protect our planet’s wild ecosystems, long into the future. ⁠

Writing or updating your will is easy, and it can provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones. Our free wills service means you can complete your will online, in person or via a phone/video call.

To find out more or discuss ways to leave your conservation legacy, follow the link below or contact us using [email protected] or 0203 488 4495.⁠

Find out more: https://octopuslegacy.com/online-will?utm_source=charity&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=charitybau-rainforesttrust&utm_term=bau-na&utm_content=na-generic-website-1

📸 Mother and baby Orangutan by JMcurto

Grey-handed Night Monkeys feed and travel after dark in Colombia’s lowland forests and wetlands. These petite primates w...
04/10/2026

Grey-handed Night Monkeys feed and travel after dark in Colombia’s lowland forests and wetlands. These petite primates weigh around a kilogram each. With large eyes that see in the dark, they move through the canopy seeking fruit and eluding nocturnal predators. In just 25 years, cattle ranching, logging, agriculture, and illicit coca production have claimed at least 30% of the forests that sustain Grey-handed Night Monkeys. In Colombia, only 20% of their habitat remains. The illegal pet trade also threatens this unique species.

In the Middle Magdalena Valley, a biodiversity hotspot where more than 98% of the original lowland rainforest has been destroyed, Rainforest Trust’s project doubled the size of El Silencio Natural Reserve, expanding it to cover 7,000 acres.

As one of Africa’s “big five” species, rhinos are highly sought by tourists on safari – and by poachers. Kenya offers es...
22/09/2026

As one of Africa’s “big five” species, rhinos are highly sought by tourists on safari – and by poachers.

Kenya offers essential rangeland for Critically Endangered Black Rhinos, and conservation has more than doubled their low numbers, from 400 in the 1980s to more than 1,000 today. Rhinos are prized by poachers, who hunt them for their horns. Poaching not only threatens the health of a species, but also the biodiversity of their habitat. Deforestation further increases the risk of human-wildlife conflict.

Rainforest Trust’s project in Kenya helped fortify 4,625 acres of Black Rhino habitat within the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. This landscape was recently named a Key Biodiversity Area, which recognises decades of conservation and brings greater attention and investment to the region.

Your will isn’t just a legal document: it’s a chance to shape the world you leave behind. This week is Remember A Charit...
10/09/2026

Your will isn’t just a legal document: it’s a chance to shape the world you leave behind. This week is Remember A Charity Week, a time to consider the impact you could make by supporting your favourite causes in your will.

Leaving a gift to support our mission will help us to continue preserving critical habitats for years to come, benefitting endangered species and future generations.

Learn more: https://www.rainforesttrust.org/uk/ways-to-give/gifts-in-wills/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social+media

The risk and damage of fires are spreading worldwide, and even humid rainforests and water-dominant landscapes like wetl...
05/09/2026

The risk and damage of fires are spreading worldwide, and even humid rainforests and water-dominant landscapes like wetlands are feeling the heat.

Deforestation intensifies the impacts of fire, making protection a key tool for preserving rainforests as fire risks grow.

Donations to Rainforest Trust’s Brazilian Amazon Fund will protect the world’s largest rainforest from a variety of devastating impacts such as deforestation for agriculture and ranching, and habitat destruction in a global biodiversity hotspot.

This year’s fire season is already destroying forests in Europe and North America, and the warm air of a powerful El Niño is headed toward South America. This , you can help us take urgent action to protect the rainforest now while preparing for fire risks in the future, before it’s too late.

Tap the link to donate now: https://bit.ly/4qRuGEJ

📸 Amazon rainforest trees Brazil by Gustavo Frazao / Amazon rainforest deforestation by Brasil2 / Amazon River by Johnny Lye / Deforestation by Richard Whitcombe

The Upper Mahakam River sustains hundreds of species, including threatened species that need large forested habitats to ...
19/08/2026

The Upper Mahakam River sustains hundreds of species, including threatened species that need large forested habitats to survive, such as the Critically Endangered Bornean Orangutan.

Unsustainable agriculture, logging, mining, and a rapidly expanding population threaten this Bornean rainforest, and new infrastructure threatens to destroy another 100,000+ acres of high-integrity habitat.

Rainforest Trust is working with Yayasan Konservasi Alam Nusantara to support the creation of Customary Forests and Village Forests to protect 600,000 acres in the Upper Mahakam River basin.

This you can help protect the astounding biodiversity by donating now: https://bit.ly/4xdKmEQ

📸 Borneo Orangutan by Lukas Zeman Photo

Elephants are “ecosystem engineers,” with behaviours that benefit other species. While feeding and travelling, forest el...
12/08/2026

Elephants are “ecosystem engineers,” with behaviours that benefit other species. While feeding and travelling, forest elephants push over trees and shrubs that feed smaller herbivores. As a herd moves, they leave trails that other animals follow. In the past 35 years – or half the life-span of a Critically Endangered African Forest Elephant – populations have plummeted by 86%. Habitat loss in the Congo Basin not only harms threatened wildlife, but it destroys forests that store carbon and balance the climate.

Rainforest Trust has helped protect more than 8 million acres in the Congo rainforest, including habitat for African Forest Elephants. Protecting this region also shores up the world’s largest tropical peatlands.

📸 African Forest Elephant by Roger de la Harpe

Africa without Lions is unimaginable.But this could be the future we face without urgent action to save their shrinking ...
10/08/2026

Africa without Lions is unimaginable.

But this could be the future we face without urgent action to save their shrinking habitat. In the past 25 years, global Lion populations have been slashed in half.

In the highlands of Angola, Rainforest Trust is working in partnership with Fundação Lisima to help protect Lions and their vital habitat

Known as the Lisima Lya Mwono, or “Source of Life,” the Angola Highlands capture trillions of gallons of rain each year.

Lisima holds one of the largest intact, unprotected expanses of Miombo woodlands, a patchwork of wooded shrublands, grasslands, and savannahs that stretches 1.5 million miles across south-central Africa. This combination of open spaces and forest cover supports wide-ranging megafauna, including Lions.

On , you can help secure a safe future for this iconic animal by donating now: https://www.rainforesttrust.org/urgent-projects/save-the-angola-highlands-watershed/?form=FUNHMLUXEDG&utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social+media&utm_campaign=International+Day+of+the+World%27s+Indigenous+Peoples

📸 Lion with cub by Thomas Retterath

On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, and every day, we recognise the Earth’s original stewards an...
09/08/2026

On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, and every day, we recognise the Earth’s original stewards and today’s defenders of the rainforests that benefit us all.

When the world loses rainforests, it loses biodiversity and climate stability. When people lose rainforests, they lose their homes, foods, medicines, traditions, and cultures. Sometimes they lose their lives.

Many of Rainforest Trust’s local partners work closely with Indigenous Peoples around the world to help secure their land tenure and management rights while conserving key habitats for biodiversity.

Indigenous knowledge has sustained people and nature together for generations, and modern conservation is applying traditional practices for greater impact.

📸 Indigenous person in Brazil, by Celio Messias Silva

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