Rainforest Trust

🔥Over 20 million acres of rainforest on the line. Help us protect this essential habitat for threatened species.

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Only 270 Bornean Orangutans remain. Deforestation is destroying their home.
This #EndangeredSpeciesDay, you can help Rainforest Trust and our local partner build a wildlife corridor to protect Asia's only great ape.🦧
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Red-faced Parrot The Red-faced Parrot is a colorful conglomeration of colors, mainly green with red touches on its face, crown, and wings, yellow ear coverts, and dark blue wing and tail feathers.

Fewer than 2,400 Red-faced Parrots remain in the wild. But there’s still hope for this adorable avian species. 🌄

ABC, Jocotoco, @rainforesttrust.bsky.social, & #ConservaAves recently established a Reserve in southern Ecuador to conserve Red-faced Parrots. ♥️ bit.ly/4i7O2zn. 🪶

Earth Day 2025 – Rainforest Trust Help Stop Climate Change—Save Rainforests Today

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Rainforests are our most powerful natural climate solution—storing carbon, protecting biodiversity, and buffering us from climate disasters. But we’re losing an acre every three seconds, releasing carbon back into the atmosphere and accelerating global warming.

We cannot stop climate change without saving tropical forests.

#Climatechange isn’t a distant threat. It’s here—polluting our air, creating more intense allergy seasons, triggering floods and mudslides. These daily realities are intrinsically linked to rainforest destruction.

Deadly heatwaves, raging wildfires, and destructive hurricanes are not just predicted—they’re happening now.

1 acre of rainforest 🌳 is lost every three seconds.

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Hold the Line Against Agribusiness in the Bolivian Amazon – Rainforest Trust Industrial agriculture is threatening to destroy essential Amazon rainforest and communities built on traditionalist, sustainable, forest-based livelihoods.

You can help protect 2,000,000 acres here, safeguarding habitat for species like the Vulnerable White-lipped Peccary.

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The Pando department (state) is a prime target for industrial agriculture that aims to transform biodiverse Amazon rainforest into lucrative cattle pastures and soy farms to feed the cattle—releasing large amounts of #carbon and mirroring the tragedy taking place in Brazil.

Alarmingly, Bolivia had the second-highest rate of primary forest loss in 2023 (after Brazil) of all the Amazon countries, and #deforestation here is increasing.

In the Amazon region of eastern Bolivia, over 92% of the land—about 14.3 million acres—is still forested.

Hold the Line Against Agribusiness in the Bolivian Amazon – Rainforest Trust Industrial agriculture is threatening to destroy essential Amazon rainforest and communities built on traditionalist, sustainable, forest-based livelihoods.

You can help protect critical habitat for the Amazon River #Dolphin and other threatened species in Bolivia.

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These #animals have a striking pink color, and use echolocation to navigate through dark or muddy waters.

The Endangered Amazon River Dolphin is a freshwater species found in rivers of South America.

One of the largest amphibians in South Africa, African Bullfrogs are found near waterways, rivers and streams.

These #frogs are olive green in color with a yellow or orange throat, and males are known to measure nearly 9.5 inches long!

Species Archive – Rainforest Trust

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In response, Rainforest Trust has taken decisive action to safeguard vast areas of critical habitat for pangolins and halt poaching in Myanmar, the Philippines, India, and across Africa.

These #animals are also captured for the illegal pet trade, though they rarely survive longer than a year.

Unrelenting demand for their meat, considered a delicacy in some Asian countries, and their scales for traditional medicine threatens all eight species of pangolin with extinction.

Pangolins are the most trafficked mammals in the world.

In addition to safeguarding #wildlife, Ecuador Ridgely Reserve will generate numerous benefits for human residents of the region, including clean water, landslide reduction, and the preservation of the area’s unique ecosystems.

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Named after renowned ornithologist and co-founder of Fundación Jocotoco Dr. Robert Ridgely, this reserve is a major step in protecting Ecuador’s astounding #biodiversity.

Rainforest Trust, @abcbirds.bsky.social, and Jocotoco Foundation are thrilled to announce the creation of the Ecuador Ridgely Reserve in Selva Alegre!

Our partner, African Parks sent brand new camera-trap photos of lions in the Yassa Lake area, where the cameras also documented numerous other African mammals.

The track count from 2024 indicates the lion population has exceeded 2012 levels—the highest on record before human encroachment into the area.

Rainforest Trust is supporting land management that guides herders to areas outside the conservation area where they can graze their cattle.

By the end of 2024, we had expanded the zone that limits human-wildlife interaction to over 7,850 square miles.

In Chinko, where the forest meets the savanna, pastoralist herders convert wilderness habitat to cattle pasture, and poaching driven by poverty and civil unrest is rampant.

Tracking data revealed a dramatic recovery of the lion population and a healthy population of chimpanzees in the area protected by Rainforest Trust’s #conservation work.