Be part of our solutions
Rainforest Foundation Norway is currently seeking funding to scale up several successful strategic projects, offering solutions to the climate and nature crises. We have the size, credibility and long-standing network of local partners needed to deliver tangible results. But we need your support.
ACAI: Hilario Dos Santos, resident of Curipi village and açaí cultivator, is part of a new and sustainable economic model for protected areas and Indigenous territories. Photo: Fernanda Ligabue/RFN
By Rainforest Foundation Norway.
SEEDS: Indigenous people harvesting seeds for replanting rainforest in the Brazilian Amazon. Photo: Rogerio Assis/ISA
From guardians to green entrepreneurs
Through empowered Indigenous leadership, the Amazon can be both prosperous and protected.
We support local communities and organizations in the Brazilian Amazon in building a new sustainable economic model for protected areas and Indigenous territories.
ISOLATED: Isolated peoples photographed during an overflight in Brazil. Photo: Gleison Miranda/FUNAI
The right to not be contacted
We have been instrumental in establishing five isolated peoples' territories in the border region between Brazil and Peru.
Now, we are working to connect these five territories into one large, contiguous protected area. Protecting the right of isolated peoples to not be contacted is crucial to the protection of the rainforest.
PLANNING: Members of a local community planning forest conservation efforts in the DRC in 2011. Photo: Julie Forchhammer/RFN
A gamechanger for climate funding
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, we support a pioneering initiative to channel climate funds to grassroot efforts. Why?
Because Indigenous peoples and local communities are highly efficient conservators of the rainforest, yet they receive less than 1% of climate funding. We are missing out on valuable opportunities to mitigate climate change.
