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. Th

is highly effective community-inclusive model ensures long-lasting results for all the biodiversity within the forests we help to purchase and protect.

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

31/07/2026

Experts predict next year will be the planet’s hottest on record, and the threat of fire will continue to rise.

The last El Niño, in 2023, exacerbated years-long droughts across much of tropical South America. According to the United Nations, an impending, powerful El Niño will also “pour fuel on the fire of a warming world.”

Humid tropical rainforests evolved with very little natural fire. This makes places like the Amazon rainforest especially vulnerable when fires do occur.

In Ecuador, after Rainforest Trust’s project with Jocotoco strengthened community fire management, park guards and local volunteers successfully contained flames until firefighters arrived, saving key conservation areas from destruction. Conservation that integrates fire prevention and response can support the resilience of people who live within or on the edge of the rainforest.

Read more in our latest article, to find out how collaboration is a vital tool for addressing the growing threat of fire, and how Rainforest Trust can play an important role as a convener across the Americas.

Read now: https://www.rainforesttrust.org/our-impact/rainforest-news/the-future-of-fire-in-the-rainforest/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social+media

On tropical coasts, treasure lies beneath the waves. “Blue carbon” ecosystems like mangrove forests absorb 10 times more...
28/07/2026

On tropical coasts, treasure lies beneath the waves. “Blue carbon” ecosystems like mangrove forests absorb 10 times more carbon than tropical forests, and they store it in their soils for millennia.

On World Nature Conservation Day, you can double your impact to protect carbon-rich tropical ecosystems.

Our donors have helped secure blue carbon vaults around the tropics:
- Mangrove forests on Brazil’s Atlantic coast: With RARE Brazil, over 188,000 acres of habitat for manatees and migrating birds were conserved.
- Seagrass meadows in Guinea-Bissau: With PRCM, Rainforest Trust is supporting Marine Protected Areas across 330,000 acres that shelter nurseries for endangered sea turtles.
- Marshes and flooded grasslands in the Pantanal: With Onçafari, 326,000 acres in the world’s largest tropical wetland, which hosts the greatest density of Jaguars worldwide, will be protected.

Together, these projects store the CO₂ equivalent of annual electricity use in 23 million homes. And this is only a fraction of the 19 billion tons of carbon our donors have helped secure around the world.

Don’t miss your chance to double your impact this 🌍

Donate now: https://bit.ly/4biIRfA

This we want to celebrate the essential role mangroves play in the survival of innumerable species, including American...
26/07/2026

This we want to celebrate the essential role mangroves play in the survival of innumerable species, including American Manatees..

Along the coastline of Brazil, Rainforest Trust and local partner RARE Brazil worked together to safeguard 188,118 acres of mangroves and coastal waters through government designation of two new sustainable use reserves and the expansion of one existing reserve.

This area was officially protected in 2024, and serves as a unique refuge and nursery environment for American Manatees as well as other marine and coastal species facing extinction, including the Atlantic Goliath Grouper and Black Rail, a tiny, elusive marsh bird.

You can learn more about this project by following the link: https://bit.ly/4vNoG0H

Scientists have identified a new primate species in a remote forest of the Congo Basin that our donors helped protect! W...
22/07/2026

Scientists have identified a new primate species in a remote forest of the Congo Basin that our donors helped protect!

With distinctive orange lips and a mane of shaggy black hair, Colobus congoensis stands out among primates in the Congo.

In 2018, building on a blurry photo taken ten years earlier, scientists began acoustic monitoring, community outreach, and genetic analysis to gather evidence in and around Lomami National Park.

This month, the species was formally recognised when the research team published their findings in PLOS One.

In 2015, with the Lukuru Wildlife Research Foundation (LWRF), Rainforest Trust helped support the creation of Lomami National Park to protect 2.2 million acres of habitat in the Democratic Republic of Congo. 🇨🇩

Little did we know that, along with endangered wildlife like African Forest Elephants and Bonobos, we were helping secure the small stretch of forest that sustains this extremely rare monkey.

Protecting rare species like this is only possible because of dedicated donors like you.

From all of us at Rainforest Trust, thank you for your unwavering support! 🐒🌿

The Endangered Albany Adder is one of South Africa’s most threatened snakes. This extremely range-restricted dwarf viper...
16/07/2026

The Endangered Albany Adder is one of South Africa’s most threatened snakes. This extremely range-restricted dwarf viper had not been seen for a decade when a research team supported by Rainforest Trust spotted them in 2017. The species’ primary habitat in South Africa’s semi-arid Coega Bontveld is quickly disappearing as mining activities fragment and disrupt the ecosystem. Urbanisation, including vehicle traffic, places this small viper at greater risk.

With local partner Endangered Wildlife Trust, Rainforest Trust is working to protect 23,440 acres of the planet’s only remaining habitat for the Albany Adder. Thanks to their work to document and track the species, their status was upgraded last year from critically endangered to endangered.

24/06/2026

Pollinators come in a variety of shapes and sizes, and are vital in maintaining healthy ecosystems.

is a time to celebrate these incredible beings, who may seem small but have a huge impact on our planet.

If we protect them, they protect us 🐝

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