Tropical forests are biodiversity hotspots, providing habitat for half of the global species population and 80% of terrestrial wildlife. 

Rainforests exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen, recycle rainwater, and cool the climate, supporting life as we know it across the planet. It will be impossible to curb global warming without saving tropical forests. If deforestation were a country, it would be the third largest emitter of greenhouse gases after China and the United States.

Millions of Indigenous people also depend on forests for their survival, and the livelihoods of over a billion people rely on rainforest resources. 

An acre of rainforest is destroyed every 3 seconds — that’s an area of forest the size of Bristol wiped out every day. 

Tropical deforestation is responsible for up to 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions, which drive climate change, and is also the primary cause of biodiversity loss. A million species are at risk of extinction this century, each unique and irreplaceable. 

That’s why we’ve chosen to take action to save the planet’s tropical forests, preserve the lungs of the planet and allow nature to thrive.