Working with local people

We work alongside local people to build better health, better education and better livelihoods to create resilient and empowered villages.

From working with Cool Earth, our local partners have reported improvements in all areas of life:

Incidences of malaria have fallen by 60% among our Asháninka partners Enhanced Wellbeing

We've equipped 14 rainforest schools Improved Education

98% of women in our Awajún partners' AMARNO jewellery collective report feeling empowered as a result of our work Greater Happiness

vaccinations for healthy rainforest villages

55 lives have been saved through emergency evacuations Better Health

two children smiling behind rainforest cacao produce

We're supporting 174 cacao growers and 64 coffee producers to improve their income through forest produce Increased Incomes

Our partner villages help to lock in a total of 230 million tonnes of CO₂ Stronger Forest Value

STRONG VILLAGE, SAFE FOREST

Rainforest is only safe when there is a village strong enough to protect it. We’ve put more rainforest under the protection of indigenous people than any other NGO or government.

Each of our projects grows organically when neighbouring villages ask to come on board. As these villages link up, they form a shield to make the adjacent forest inaccessible to destruction.

Each partner village is helping form a shield for 5 million acres of pristine rainforest.

234,436,540 TONNES OF CO2 LOCKED IN

901,679 ACRES SAVED

216,402,960 TREES KEPT STANDING

68,527,604,000 LITRES OF WATER PRODUCED EACH YEAR BY OUR PROJECTS

14 RAINFOREST SCHOOLS EQUIPPED

80 SPECIES ON THE IUCN RED LIST PROTECTED

We’ve proven that it is local people, not fences and patrols or governments and boardrooms that save forest.

Help us grow the shield to halt the destruction of the world’s remaining forest.

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