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1. Conserve trees and forests in your area. Forests and trees—especially big trees and mature forests—have many benefits. They provide habitat for a multitude of species, store carbon, maintain water quality, stabilize the climate, and provide places for people to recreate and connect with nature.
- Eliminate Deforestation From Your Diet. Many of the foods we eat are grown on lands that have been deforested for grazing and agriculture. For example, beef, soybean, and palm oil are major drivers of deforestation in the Amazon basin.
- Buy Responsibly Sourced Products. Choosing products that are responsibly sourced or made from recycled materials can go a long way to curbing tropical deforestation.
- Choose Products That Give Back. It’s best to buy less. But when you do buy, choose companies that donate directly to environmental causes. Teadora—which offers a line of skin care products—works with Rainforest Foundation US to protect over 500 square miles of rainforest habitat for endangered species, and to plant more than one million trees in an area that is sacred to the Wapichan people.
- Support Indigenous Communities. Indigenous peoples are the best defenders of their territories and science backs this up. Buying artisanal and fair trade products made by Indigenous peoples is an effective way to protect rainforests—but know who to buy from to be sure you are not inadvertently supporting companies that benefit from cultural appropriation.
For the last five decades, UN agencies, development institutions, governments, conservationists, the private sector and other key stakeholders have worked together to help protect the world’s forests, many of which are buckling under various pressures, including agriculture, resource extraction and illegal logging.
Dec 22, 2020 · Of the world’s remaining forests, only 40% are intact, with high ecological integrity, according to data from the newly developed Forest Landscape Integrity Index, the first of its kind to measure the state of forests on a global scale.
- Liz Kimbrough
Mar 19, 2021 · From cleaning the air we breathe, to providing food we eat and the medicines we take when we’re ill, it can be easy to forget the range of ways forests touch on our everyday lives. About 1.6 billion people – including over 2,000 indigenous cultures – rely on forests for their livelihoods.
- Natalie Marchant
Oct 24, 2023 · Reforming the rules of global trade that harm forests, cutting deforesting commodities out of global supply chains, and removing barriers to forest-friendly goods; Accelerating the recognition of land rights to Indigenous peoples; And making the shift toward nature-based economies.
Dec 4, 2020 · The very existence of rainforests will help regulate climate change and minimize the amount spent on lowering CO2 emissions.
