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About us

We work in respectful co-operation with local partners to protect and, where necessary, restore tropical forests in areas with extremely high biodiversity. Our focus is on creating reserves and connecting large areas of forest to safeguard green infrastructure. Most of the forests we preserve are primary forests that have never been cut. Some are also secondary, recovering forests. Common to all are the threats of logging, agriculture and plantations.

An additional part of Rädda Regnskog is our support of local sustainable development. In collaboration with our partners, we deal with the underlying causes of deforestation by conducting activities: facilitating environmental education, developing sustainable agroforestry practices and engaging in ecotourism. We also cooperate with research institutions.

Our funds come from private donations and from companies that either donate themselves, or invite customers to donate to encourage their corporate sustainability work.

1. Cambugan watershed, Ecuador.    2. Children planting trees.

Partners

Most of our funds are forwarded directly to our partners, whom we keep a close and personal contact with. Rädda Regnskog’s partners make outstanding contributions to the conservation of the world’s most biologically diverse, yet threatened, terrestrial regions.

These partners are all well-respected NGOs with strong commitments to forest conservation. Many of Rädda Regnskog’s partners have received prestigious awards for their work. One example is Fundación Cambugan, who won a sustainability award from the City of Quito. Another is Serraniagua, who received the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund award “Hotspot Heroes”.

Why tropical forests?

Climate change

Forests are important carbon sinks. They absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and store it in the biosphere, trees, other plants, and soil. Neither the amounts of carbon nor the linkages between our forests and the atmosphere are yet fully understood. However, preserving healthy ecosystems is, in general, among the most important things we can do to mitigate climate change.

Biodiversity

Biodiversity basically means the variation of life on Earth. Rainforests are by far the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world. They comprise around 6% of the planet’s land area yet are home to more than half of all species of plants and animals.

The likely reason for this biodiversity is that rainforests are Earth’s oldest ecosystems. In them, the hot and wet climate provides ideal conditions for nutrient recycling and for many species to thrive. As a result of deforestation, these plants and animals are today at risk of becoming extinct even before being discovered.

Local livelihoods

When rainforests and their biodiversity diminish, this has negative impacts on local populations and indigenous people who have lived in them for thousands of years. Their cultures, economies and daily lives depend on the forests’ survival.

Rädda Regnskog supports the prosperity of local communities through caring for their forests, along with developing livelihoods from sustainable agroforestry and ecotourism. In this way, both the communities and forests are strengthened.

Cubs of spectacled bear caught on camera in Cambugán forest, Ecuador.

Rädda Regnskog

(Save the Rainforest Sweden)

About us

Partners

Kenya | Africa

Rwanda | Africa

Madagascar | Africa

Brazil | South America

Honduras | Central America

Colombia | South America

Ecuador | South America

Why tropical forests?

Climate change

Biodiversity

Local livelihoods

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