Our donors stepped up to protect a vital wildlife corridor for the Himalayan Wolf! 🐺 Land conversion for agriculture and resource extraction, along with poaching, have driven the species’ numbers down across India and Nepal, and the highest estimates count fewer than 4,000 adult Himalayan Wolves remaining in the wild. Thanks to donors like you, vital habitat for the Himalayan Wolf and other threatened species is now protected in Nepal’s 123,157-acre Badimalika–Ramaroshan Forest Conservation Area (FCA). With our local partner, National Trust for Nature Conservation @NTNCNepal, we helped secure this government designation to prohibit commercial extractive activities and allow the sustainable use of forest resources for local communities. The remarkably diverse ecosystems of the Badimalika-Ramaroshan region extend from marshy lowlands to alpine highlands. 🏔️ Located between two national parks, the new FCA connects habitat across elevations for a protected corridor that will be crucial as species like the Himalayan Black Bear, Endangered Alpine Musk Deer, Himalayan Wolf, and hundreds of others adapt to climate change. Donors like you have given the Himalayan Wolf a second chance. Thank you for your generosity and investment in lasting conservation!

Rainforest Trust is proud to be a founding member of the Species Recovery Alliance, a groundbreaking collaboration of nine philanthropic organizations and conservation leaders committing more than $500 million over the next five years to prevent extinctions and recover the world’s most threatened species. 🌎🐾 Officially announced at the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Species Recovery Alliance brings together nine founding members, including: @RainforestTrust Ayers Wild Cat Conservation Trust @BezosEarthFund Colossal Foundation Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund Fondation Segré Franklinia Foundation @rewild @WildEarth More than 31,000 species worldwide are classified as Endangered, Critically Endangered, or Extinct in the Wild. Protecting their habitats is essential, but research shows that 57% of threatened species also need targeted conservation interventions, such as conservation breeding, habitat restoration, genetic rescue, reintroductions, disease mitigation, invasive species control, poaching prevention and anti-poaching measures, or other methods to prevent extinction. The #SpeciesRecoveryAlliance aims to become the largest coordinated philanthropic effort dedicated to species recovery. Rather than pooling funding, members will coordinate and align their investments, and work alongside conservation organizations and local partners to support effective recovery actions at the scale and over the time frames needed to achieve measurable results. Members will also share lessons and report on progress using the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Green Status of Species (@IUCN), as well as the Red List of Threatened Species, to assess collective impact. At Rainforest Trust, we know that preventing extinction requires more than protecting habitat alone. It takes sustained investment, targeted conservation action, and strong partnerships that empower conservationists and local communities to deliver results on the ground. 🌿 We are honored to join our fellow founding members in advancing this critical effort to make species recovery a global conservation priority and help secure a future for the world’s most threatened wildlife. Learn more about the Species Recovery Alliance: bit.ly/speciesrecoveryallian…

“Hi. It is so nice to meet you. I really love frogs.” When our Public Relations Manager Brynn Garner met Dr. Caleb Ofori-Boateng, she approached him with a simple greeting that kicked off an expansive conversation. Soon, Brynn and Caleb were reflecting on the outsize impact of an elusive frog that was once thought extinct. Caleb is a conservation hero, internationally recognized for his efforts to protect Ghana’s amphibians and reptiles. He talked with Brynn about a unique species that he helped rediscover: the Critically Endangered Togo Slippery Frog. Our partnership with the organization Caleb founded, @Herp_Ghana, helped establish and expand the Onepone Endangered Species Refuge to cover the majority of this rare frog’s global range. The latest expansion protects an estimated 250 mature Togo Slippery Frogs, Caleb told Brynn. They are some of the last survivors of their species. While their conversation was compelling, Brynn was determined to see the Togo Slippery Frog firsthand. As a certified Frog Watch volunteer who can identify the calls of 26 frogs and counting, she is no stranger to night hikes and careful listening. In our new Substack article, join Brynn as she searches the streams of Onepone Refuge for this elusive, resilient amphibian. 🐸 Read the article: rainforesttrust.substack.com…

70 million acres protected! 🌎🌿 Thanks to donors like you, we have surpassed 70 million acres protected worldwide! That’s an area roughly the size of Nevada, and we reached it just eight months after our 60 million-acre milestone. Together with our dedicated partners and local communities, you have helped us accelerate the pace of conservation for some of the planet’s most important places for biodiversity, climate and people. Last month, the designation of Agua Dulce Municipal Wildlife Reserve took us past the 70 million-acre mark. 🇧🇴 Protected in partnership with @Faunagua_com, this rainforest near the border of Bolivia and Brazil shelters 489 bird species and more than 70 mammal species, including Jaguars and Endangered Amazon River Dolphins. Agua Dulce’s ecological corridors connect to six other conservation areas, and the project’s alliance among local and international partners will ensure lasting impacts are lasting for conservation and the community. It has never been more urgent to invest in rainforests! Reaching 70 million acres is a measure of progress and a reminder of the scale of work still ahead. 💚 As we continue our work to protect millions more acres, we are truly grateful for your partnership and support. Learn more about our work to protect rainforests and critical habitat, and help support conservation action now: bit.ly/rainforestx26

It’s #WorldGorillaDay, and we have remarkable new footage from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that reveals the power of protection and the real-world impact of donors like you. 🦍🌿 Shared by our partners at the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund (@SavingGorillas), the video clip features a family of Grauer’s Gorillas foraging through grasslands in the Community Forest that we helped establish together. Look closely, and you can see a baby gorilla riding on an adult’s back! Keeping rainforests intact is essential to the long-term survival of species in DRC and around the tropics. Large mammals like these gorillas need safe, expansive habitats free from the threats of deforestation and hunting. Many of our partnerships support local teams who patrol, monitor, and manage Community Forests. In the Nkuba Conservation Area, the Fossey Fund reported on the incredible value our partners bring to conservation in the Congo. In recent months, their teams have: 🚫 Removed more than 1,500 illegal hunting traps 🔬Trained 40 biodiversity researchers in SMART data collection 🌳 Conducted more than 100 biodiversity surveillance patrols, each lasting two weeks On World Gorilla Day, you can do your part for threatened wildlife and conservation that lasts. Donate to our Conservation Action Fund so that we may act urgently to save the species and habitats at greatest risk. 🌍 Donate now: bit.ly/rtgorillax

We’re honored to share the replay of our conversation with our partners in Papua New Guinea, home to Oceania’s largest stretch of intact rainforest! 🌏🌿 Dr. Lisa Dabek, Founder and Senior Director of the Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program at @woodlandparkzoo, and Modi Pontio, Associate Director of the Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program, share their stories of success and opportunity in community-led conservation. The Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program is at the forefront of conservation in Papua New Guinea. Together, we helped create the country’s first nationally recognized conservation area of its kind. Named for the Yopno, Uruwa, and Som rivers that flow through it, the YUS Conservation Area protected 233,186 acres, and subsequent protections have expanded to nearly 400,000 acres. Our continued partnership will build on this important milestone, extending protection across an additional 74,000 acres. Join us for an inside look at how partnership and community-led conservation can create lasting impact in a globally important rainforest. Watch the replay and learn more about conservation action in Papua New Guinea: bit.ly/treekangaroo26

Rainforest Trust announced a $10 million commitment to conservation in Madagascar during Climate Week NYC, providing new funding to help protect some of the world’s most irreplaceable biodiversity while supporting Madagascar’s ambitious conservation goals. This new commitment will support Madagascar’s efforts to protect its extraordinary biodiversity and advance progress toward conserving 30% of its lands and waters by 2030. 🌍🌿🌊 Madagascar is one of the most biologically unique places on Earth, with the vast majority of its plants and animals found nowhere else. Its forests are home to lemurs, chameleons, frogs, and thousands of other endemic species, including many that remain unknown to science. But these ecosystems continue to face intense pressure from deforestation, habitat degradation, and other threats. Rainforest Trust's pledge will support new conservation projects, working alongside Malagasy conservation organizations, Indigenous Peoples and local communities, government agencies, and other partners to establish and strengthen durable protections for priority ecosystems. The $10 million commitment comes at a time when rapid action can secure important landscapes before they are lost!

Thanks to our donors, endangered sea turtles now have triple the protection along Colombia’s Caribbean coast! 🌊 Your support helped expand the Wildlife and Flora Sanctuary of Acandí, Playón, Playona, San Francisco, and Cabo Tiburón along the border of Panama and Colombia. This expansion faced years of delay, but local communities remained committed to conserving the remarkable region and its biodiversity. 💚 Initially covering 65,000 acres, the sanctuary now protects 220,568 acres of connected marine and terrestrial ecosystems, including: 🐢 Rocky shores where Vulnerable Leatherback Turtles and Critically Endangered Hawksbill Turtles build their nests 🪸 Reefs that sustain diverse species, including Critically Endangered Elkhorn Coral 🦈 A migratory corridor for marine megafauna like Critically Endangered Scalloped Hammerhead sharks 🌿 Seagrass beds and mangrove forests that store blue carbon We supported our local partner, @WWFColombia, in their collaborations to expand the protected area with @ParquesColombia and the community councils of Cocomanorte, Cocomaseco, and Cocomasur. Strong community representation throughout the process and ongoing co-management will ensure that the protections align with local priorities and needs. From all of us at Rainforest Trust, thank you for helping us secure this important Caribbean sanctuary! Learn more about our work and help support conservation action now: bit.ly/acandix26

Our donors stepped up to make a powerful difference for Madagascar’s high-altitude rainforest! The new Tsinjoarivo-Ambalaomby Protected Area has been officially designated as a Harmonious Protected Landscape, a designation that conserves key habitat while recognizing the role of communities in shaping the area’s future. 🌿 This is Madagascar’s first major declaration of a new protected area in more than a decade! Our donors’ generosity supported our long-term collaboration with local NGOs Madagasikara @Voakajy and SADABE, who worked with the Government of Madagascar and communities for lasting conservation that will improve people’s lives while protecting unique biodiversity. 🤝🌍 With several species found nowhere else on Earth, Madagascar’s rainforest is vital for local and global biodiversity. Rare wildlife in the new 65,859-acre protected area include critically endangered lemurs such as the Sibree’s Dwarf Lemur and Diademed Sifaka, in addition to two critically endangered orchids. Thanks to donors like you, we helped secure a safe habitat for these threatened species and many more. 💚 Your support is essential for successful, sustainable conservation in Africa and worldwide!

Our partners in Indonesia recently shared incredible images from the field, featuring the rare Sumatran Tiger!🐅 Critically Endangered Sumatran Tigers are on the brink of extinction, victims of a deadly legacy of poaching, human-wildlife conflicts, and relentless deforestation. Thanks to donors like you, protection is underway for the vital habitat that remains for this and other threatened species in Sumatra’s rainforest. Our partnership with Yayasan Palka Agra Hayati (@Palka_Tweet) is helping create Village Forests across 44,479 acres. This social forestry agreement between local communities, Solok Protected Forest Management Unit, West Sumatra Forestry Service, and our partner builds on the government of Indonesia’s vision of collaboration with NGOs, academics, and other related parties to preserve the forests and environment for the long term. Illegal logging, commercial hunting, and conversion to plantations will be prohibited. The new protected area lies within the RIMBA Ecosystem corridor, an important landscape for Indonesia’s wildlife, and it connects to the 3.39-million-acre Kerinci Seblat National Park. The largest known population of #SumatranTigers (~128 individuals) relies on this corridor, along with endangered species like the Malay Tapir, Sumatran Clouded Leopard, and the Critically Endangered Sunda Pangolin. Supporters like you play an important part in protecting vulnerable species like these. Together, we can take urgent action for extraordinary biodiversity! Take action now: bit.ly/indox26

The Critically Endangered Niger Delta Red Colobus now has a stronger chance at survival and a safe haven in its native forest! 🐒 Donors like you helped us protect critical habitat for this rare monkey within Africa’s largest river delta, where lowland forests survive despite rampant logging and oil pollution. Through support to the @SWNigerDelta Forest Project, we helped establish Community Conservation Areas (CCAs) that cover 2,492 acres of habitat for the Niger Delta Red Colobus and other threatened species, including the Endangered Grey Parrot and the Endangered White-bellied Pangolin. When we began our partnership with the SW/Niger Delta Forest Project, this Old World monkey ranked among the world’s 25 most threatened primates, due to extreme population declines from habitat loss and hunting. In 2025, the species was removed from this list, thanks in part to data from our partner’s team that included the first-ever camera-trap footage of a Niger Delta Red Colobus! Community-led conservation has been central to this project’s success and will ensure its long-term impact. The CCAs secured land rights for approximately 2,500 local residents, and a 10-year conservation management plan prioritizes local leadership and species monitoring by community teams. Our supporters’ generosity makes a world of difference. From all of us at Rainforest Trust, thank you! 💚

The risk and damage of fires are spreading worldwide, and even humid rainforests and water-dominant landscapes like wetlands are feeling the heat. Just two years ago, record-breaking fires burned more than 8 million acres across the Amazon rainforest. 🌳🔥 Deforestation intensifies the impacts of fire, making protection a key tool for preserving rainforests as fire risks grow. In a fragmented or degraded rainforest, fires can rapidly burn out of control. The consequences can be devastating, said Ameyali Ramos, Rainforest Trust’s Latin America Regional Director. “It’s like a trauma, and recovery can take decades.” We need your help to build resilience against future fires in the Amazon. Our Brazilian Amazon Fund will direct your donation to protect the world’s largest rainforest from: 🔥 Slash-and-burn practices to clear land 🌾 Deforestation for agriculture and ranching 🌍 Forest loss that releases stored carbon ⛏️ Mining that pollutes and degrades the landscape 🐒 Habitat destruction in a global biodiversity hotspot This year’s fire season is already destroying forests in Europe and North America, and the warm air of a powerful El Niño is headed toward South America. With a gift to our Brazilian Amazon Fund, you can help us take urgent action to protect the rainforest now while preparing for fire risks in the future, before it’s too late.💔 Donate now: bit.ly/baf26x

Africa without Lions is unimaginable. 🦁 But this could be the future we face without urgent action to save their shrinking habitat. In the past 25 years, global Lion populations have been slashed in half. They are victims of habitat loss, poaching, and conflict with humans as development destroys their rangelands. In the highlands of Angola, our partnership with Fundação Lisima will help protect Lions and their vital habitat. 💧 By helping us conserve 3.15 million acres of habitat in the Angola Highlands, you will make a powerful impact for wildlife across central and southern Africa. Known as the Lisima Lya Mwono, or “Source of Life,” the Angola Highlands capture trillions of gallons of rain each year. This incredible inundation flows through rivers and peatlands to flood the globally important Okavango Delta, a critical stronghold for African wildlife. Lisima holds one of the largest intact, unprotected expanses of Miombo woodlands, a patchwork of wooded shrublands, grasslands, and savannas that stretches 1.5 million miles across south-central Africa. This combination of open spaces and forest cover supports wide-ranging megafauna, including Lions. On World Lion Day, you can help secure a safe future for this iconic animal. 🐾🧡 Show your support for Lions with a donation to safeguard their habitat in the Angola Highlands: bit.ly/lionx26

Many of the rainforests standing today owe their survival to Indigenous stewardship. Yet Indigenous Peoples and their lands have faced a legacy of destructive development, exploitation, and deforestation. 🌿🌎 When the world loses rainforests, it loses biodiversity and climate stability. When people lose rainforests, they lose their homes, foods, medicines, traditions, and cultures. Sometimes they lose their lives. On the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, and every day, we recognize the Earth’s traditional stewards and today’s defenders of the rainforests that benefit us all. Read our new Substack article: Why We Support Indigenous-led Conservation Many of our local partners work closely with Indigenous Peoples around the world to help secure their land tenure and management rights while conserving key habitats for biodiversity. Our new Substack article features the insight and expertise of some of these partners. Learn how Indigenous knowledge has sustained people and nature together for generations and how modern conservation is applying traditional practices for greater impact. Read the article: bit.ly/4xjKHFw

Our donors helped make conservation history! 🌊🌎 Together, we supported the creation of the first-ever Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Central African island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe. These two new designations will provide safe harbor for threatened species, and six more MPAs are pending. The shores of São Tomé and Príncipe host critical nesting sites for five sea turtle species struggling to survive: 🐢 Critically Endangered Hawksbill Turtles 🐢 Vulnerable Olive Ridley, Leatherback, and Loggerhead Turtles 🐢 Green Turtles Protected habitats will also include 600 acres of mangrove forest and migratory routes of threatened species like the Critically Endangered Scalloped Hammerhead shark. In partnership with @FaunaFloraInt, we supported the designation of two MPAs that cover 15,617 acres. Six more MPA designations are expected to ensure a total of 21,505 acres will be safe from destructive fishing practices, overfishing, and habitat degradation. Communities will co-manage the MPAs to align conservation with local livelihoods and wellbeing. “I’ve lived near the coast my entire life, and I’ve never seen the sea under so much pressure…It’s more important than ever to step up and save our ocean.”  -Pedro Ramos, Project Officer for Fauna & Flora International, in the Tanzania Times. Our incredible donors played an important part in this milestone achievement. Your support makes conservation possible, and we are deeply grateful! 💙

The Boma–Badingilo migratory landscape in South Sudan, where we are helping connect protected areas across 9.4 million acres,  just became South Sudan’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site. This milestone celebrates the global importance of one of Africa’s last great wilderness areas! 🌍 Spanning nearly 30 million acres of savannas, wetlands, floodplains, and woodlands, this extraordinary landscape protects one of the greatest wildlife migrations on Earth. More than 6 million antelope, including White-eared Kob, Tiang, and Mongalla Gazelle, move across this ancient migration route each year! The Boma-Badingilo landscape remains largely intact, but it needs urgent protection. Poaching, wildlife trafficking, climate change, and unsustainable development put this incredible ecosystem and its wildlife at risk. World Heritage status provides an important international framework for strengthening protection and attracting the technical and financial support needed to secure the landscape’s future. Its long-term survival will depend on continued cooperation among the Government of South Sudan, local and Indigenous communities, traditional authorities, and conservation partners. Rainforest Trust is honored to be a partner in this effort!