Land Protections Around the World
From 11,000 to more than 50 million, every single acre we protect is possible only with your support and commitment. Here, we take a look at a few of the places you helped safeguard over the years. Together, we are quite literally helping protect these species from potential extinctions. Thank you for standing beside us. We could not do this without you.
Sierra de las Minas Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala 11,000 acres protected in 1989
Rainforest Trust partnered with Defensores de la Naturaleza to purchase 11,000 acres of undeveloped cloud forest habitat, protecting the landscape from being cleared for agriculture or other uses. Those acres were the very first we helped protect, and are now part of the 594,379-acre Sierra de las Minas Biosphere Reserve, which safeguards critical habitat for hundreds of bird, mammal, amphibian, and reptile species, and protects the headwaters for more than 60 rivers.
Young Geometric Tortise | satct
222 Indigenous communities secure land titles in Peru 4,409,133 acres protected in 2023
Indigenous Peoples on the Matses and Madre de Dios Territorial Reserve | cedia
Without legal titles for their ancestral lands, many local and Indigenous communities are unable to protect their territories from forest-clearing threats such as logging and agriculture. Working together, Rainforest Trust and partner Centro para el Desarrollo del Indígena Amazónico( CEDIA) supported 222 Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon in obtaining land titles to their territories. Combined, these Indigenous lands safeguard 4,409,133 acres of Amazon rainforest.
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