How we work
Rainforest Foundation Norway is one of the world’s leading organizations in the field of rights-based rainforest protection, offering solutions to the main challenges of our time: the climate and the nature crises. We work along three pathways to preserve and protect the world's remaining large, contiguous rainforests.
PATROL: Two men from the Yanomami people in the Brazilian Amazon on the lookout for illegal gold miners. Photo: Thomas Nilsen/VG
By Rainforest Foundation Norway.
LAND RIGHTS: Protesters campaigning against the Marco Temporal legal thesis in 2023, a thesis that would have threatened Indigenous land rights in Brazil. Photo: Shutterstock
1. Securing land rights
Forest management by Indigenous peoples and local communities is a proven and highly effective way of protecting rainforests. That is why one of our key goals is to secure land rights and strengthen civil society. To achieve this, we partner with over 50 environmental, Indigenous and human rights organizations across six countries.
MINISTERS: Norway's Minister of Climate and Environment, Andreas Bjelland Eriksen, Brazil's Minister of Climate and Environment, Marina Silva and the UK's Minister for Energy Security and Net Zero, Graham Stuart at the celebration of the Amazon Fund's 15th anniversary at the COP28 climate conference in 2023. Photo: Julie Wentzel Frøland/RFN
2. Creating political change
It is essential to develop and implement policies, legal frameworks, and finance mechanisms that can protect rainforests and forest-dependent peoples – globally and in rainforest countries. We work at every level, from local governments to the UN, to push for political change.
OIL: Oil pipelines in the Peruvian Amazon. Photo: RFN
3. Making businesses sustainable
Commercial exploitation of the rich resources in the rainforests is the main driver of deforestation. We work to hold commercial actors accountable and present them with tailor-made solutions to stop deforestation and human rights violations.
