Watch How This Couple Spent 20 Years Transforming Desolate Patch of Land into Flourishing Rainforest
The Sai Sanctuary started out as 55 acres of desolate coffee and cardamom fields. Now, it is a fully-fledged rainforest hotspot for biodiversity.
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If You Buy a Sapling For This Rainforest, Money Also Helps Turn Illegal Loggers into Forest Guardians
Trailblazing charity Health In Harmony lets you offset your carbon footprint while also ending deforestation in areas most impacted by illegal logging.
How Costa Rica Slowed, Stopped, Then Reversed Deforestation in Their Rainforests
Once the captial of logging and deforestation in Latin America, Costa Rica's Payment for Environmental Service model helped reforest the country.
Indigenous Group in Brazil Wins Decades-Long Battle Against Illegal Loggers in the Amazon
The Ashaninka people of the Amazon have won a 20-year legal battle with illegal logging interests, securing $3 million and undisputed right to their land.
Amazon Tribes Are Excited to Use Drones to Detect Illegal Deforestation in Brazilian Rainforest
Helping to guard their forest home, Brazilian Amazonian tribes are being trained to use drones to gather evidence for illegal logging cases.
Amazon, Unilever, and Nestlé join the UK, US and Norway in New $1Billion Initiative to Preserve Tropical Rainforests
A new coalition of the UK, US, and Norway, and companies like Amazon, Bayer, Nestle, and Unilever formed LEAF to finance forest preservation.
Tribe in Panama Wins Landmark Case Granting Them Stewardship of 400,000 Acres of Pristine Ancestral Forests
After 50 years of legal battling, Panama's Naso Tribe La Amistad National Park, has won their land rights case and now manages the forest.
If Left to Regrow, Brazil's Atlantic Forest Could Recover Faster and Store More Carbon Cheaper Than Tree Planting
Instead of mass tree planting, natural regeneration could save brazil's Atlantic Forest, store more carbon, and cost $90 billion less.
14 Years Ago the Amazon Was Being Bulldozed for Soy - Then Everything Changed As Corporations Joined Activists
New research shows that 98.6% of all soy grown in the Amazon rainforest don't come from deforested fields thanks to the 2006 Soy Moratorium.
Philippine 'Raptor Boy' Shows It Takes a Village to Protect an Eagle Migration Route
Joriden Ligoyligoy is 15 years old, and he's known as the 'raptor boy' of the Philippines. Learn about his conservation work.
The US Halts Old-Growth Timber Sales in World's Largest Remaining Temperate Rainforest
The US Department of Agriculture announced this month an end to large-scale old growth timber sales in Alaska's Tongass National Forest.
Precious Rainforests Are Being Preserved at Highest Rate in 30 Years, After Palm Oil Moratorium in Indonesia
Falling four straight years, including a 75% reduction since 2019, Indonesian deforestation rates are plummeting.
Astonishing 'Fairy Lanterns' Found Growing in the Darkest Depth of Malaysian Rainforest
Oxford University botanists have found a new species of 'fairy lantern' in the Malaysian rainforest.
Man Wins 200 Million on the Lottery and Donates Almost All of It to Save the Earth
An unnamed retiree put his money where his mouth is, insisting that it's happier to give than have, even after winning the lottery.
Nonprofit Protects More Than a Million Acres of Rainforest So Far This Year - All With Public Donations
The Rainforest Trust in Virginia has already protected more than one million acres of biodiverse habitat across the world so far in 2022.
77,000 Acres of Pristine Forest Purchased for Protection in Guatemala and Belize
One of the largest and most intact privately owned forest lands in Guatemala is now protected from development. The Nature Conservancy purchased two pristine holdings totaling 77,000 acres, home to several endangered species such as puma, jaguar, tapir, anteater, howler monkey, ocelot, scarlet macaw and the Moreletti crocodile
Check Out These Victories for Old Growth Forests Worldwide on International Forest Day
Stories of hundreds of thousands of hectares saved in Australia, the Amazon, Europe, Oregon, and Florida are a good way to celebrate.
Corporations Join Norway in Creating $400M Rainforest Fund
These corporate giants are joining Norway in helping to fund rainforest countries meet the UN's Paris Climate Agreement standards.
Man Survives 9 Days in Bolivian Amazon Thanks to Watchful Monkeys
This Chilean tourist was reportedly driven mad by jungle spirits when he found himself lost in the Amazon – and then he was rescued by a group of monkeys.
Orange is the New Green For Thriving Costa Rican Forests, Thanks to Orange Peels
Twenty years after the ‘leftovers' from industrial food production were dumped on a Costa Rican forest, the land is now a flourishing ecosystem.
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