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Rainforest Trust Launches Conservation Circle Program for Corporate Partnerships

Rainforest Trust recently announced the launch of its new corporate partnership program, the Conservation Circle. Rainforest Trust’s new premier business sponsorship program allows corporations of all sizes to participate in the organization’s mission to purchase and protect threatened tropical h...

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Supporter Spotlight: Sisters Use Their Love of Arts and Crafts to Save Acres

Rainforest Trust shares a dream with our supporters: that rainforests and the species that call them home will survive far into the future, beyond our lifetimes and those of our children and grandchildren. Safeguarding these crucial habitats is a gift for the future, a legacy of which we are...

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Reserve Expansions are Integral Habitat Builders

When protected areas are strategically expanded, more optimal habitat becomes available for threatened species. Knowing that threatened species are already residing in the original protected area significantly strengthens the likelihood that they will also find suitable habitat in expanded...

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Endangered Maleos Safeguarded through Protected Area Expansion

Rainforest Trust’s local partner WCS-Indonesia recently purchased an additional 72 acres to protect the nesting sites and coastal habitat for the iconic and Endangered Maleo on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island. This additional land purchase brings the total protected area size to 388 acres and is ano...

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Climate Change Series Part 4: The Unique, Cyclical Relationship between Climate and Tropical Forests

Cloud formation in Magombera Forest. Photo courtesy of TANZANIA FOREST CONSERVATION GROUP. As previously discussed in our climate change series, there are multiple ways that tropical forests affect our global climate from carbon sequestration and...

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Supporter Spotlight: Suzanne Davenport

A friend of tapirs and of the rainforest: Celebrating the life of Suzanne Davenport As 2017 has drawn to a close, I would like to veer away from the usual “year in review” posts and invite you to join us here at Rainforest Trust in celebrating the life of Suzanne Davenport, a...

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Land Purchase Is First Protection for Rediscovered Blue-eyed Ground-dove

Blue-eyed Ground-dove. Photo by Rafael Bessa. The recently rediscovered Blue-eyed Ground-dove now has a protected habitat to call home thanks to the purchase of a 1466-acre private property in Brazil. Rainforest Trust teamed up with its local partner...

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New Land Purchases Expand Narupa Reserve in Ecuador

With the purchase of three new properties, Narupa Reserve in the Napo bioregion of northeast Ecuador has been expanded by over 345 acres. Rainforest Trust’s local partner Fundación de Conservación Jocotoco purchased three new properties totaling over 345 acres to add to the Narupa Reserve. This...

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Strategic Purchases Establish Chocó Biodiversity Corridor

With the recent purchase of six new properties, Rio Canandé Reserve was expanded by 853 acres, working toward a biodiversity corridor in Ecuador. Rainforest Trust and local partner Fundación Jocotoco have purchased several properties during 2017 for a total of 853 acres that will be added to the...

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Challenging Land Purchase Expands El Dorado Bird Reserve

Rainforest Trust provided technical help and support to complete the complex purchase of a 344-acre property that was owned by a family of 19 to expand the El Dorado Bird Reserve in Colombia. El Dorado Bird Reserve, part of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain range in northern Colombia,...

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New Land Purchase Safeguards Endemic Maleos in Sulawesi

A new 316-acre land purchase is now protecting nesting sites and coastal habitat for the iconic Endangered Maleo, all as part of a planned 47,328-acre protected area. Indonesia’s Sulawesi island, located within Wallacea – an archipelago straddling the boundaries of Asia and Australia...

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New Bird Species Named for E.O. Wilson, “Father of Biodiversity” and Rainforest Trust Board Member

The world-renowned biologist Dr. E.O. Wilson received the honor of having a new species of antbird named after him in recognition of his lifetime contribution to scientific discovery and conservation. Dr. Wilson is a myrmecologist, an entomologist who studies ants, and is known as the “father...

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One of World’s Most Threatened Turtle Species Gets New Protected Home

Over 2,000 acres were designated by the municipal government of Mendoza as a major step toward the creation of a larger permanent protected area for the Critically Endangered Palawan Forest Turtle. Through the efforts of Rainforest Trust’s local partner Katala Foundation, Inc. (KFI), the...

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Ecuadorean Reserve Expanded to Safeguard Cloud Forest

An additional land purchase of 126 acres brings Río Zuñac Reserve’s total size to over 2,400 acres, protecting pristine cloud forest, endangered and range-restricted orchids and other threatened species. Rainforest Trust’s Ecuadorean partner Fundación EcoMinga has purchased a 126-acre property...

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Creating a Firewall of Protection Around Sierra del Divisor National Park in Peru

Over the last three years, Rainforest Trust and local partner Center for the Development of an Indigenous Amazon (CEDIA) helped 16 indigenous communities in Peru gain titles to their lands, totaling more than 428,815 acres. This is part of a larger effort to title over 50 community territories...

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Strategic Land Purchases Establish New Cerro Amay Cloud Forest Preserve

Throughout 2017, Rainforest Trust has helped its local partner Fundación para el Ecodesarrollo y la Conservación (FUNDAECO) purchase six properties totaling 995 acres to establish the Cerro Amay Cloud Forest Preserve. Together, Rainforest Trust and FUNDAECO are strategically purchasing...

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Private Land Purchase Expands Protection for Endemic Bolson Tortoises

Rainforest Trust and partners Habio, A.C. and the Turtle Conservancy have purchased the 43,243-acre privately-owned Rancho San Ignacio to establish the Mexican Bolson Tortoise Preserve, a key site that falls within the globally recognized Mapimi Biosphere Reserve. Its flat desert floor is...