 Introduction
What are rainforests? What defines them?
Destruction
Why are rainforests being destroyed? At what rate are they being destroyed?
Conservation
What efforts are being made to preserve rainforests?
Facts & Figures
Statistics on rainforests.
Maps
Where are most rainforests located?
How Can I Help?
Actions you can take to help save our rainforests.
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Donate
"An area the size of a football field is being destroyed every second."
In addition to their awesome beauty, rainforests are a vital part to the earth's ability to sustain life. They prevent the greenhouse effect, regulate rainfall on a global level, house 50% of the plants and animals in the world, hold untold amounts of untapped medicines and products, and are homes to many dying cultures.
Unfortunately, rainforests continue to be cut down all throughout the world. In fact, at the rate we are going, in the next 30 years we will lose 30% of all the plants and animals living on this planet--roughly 20,000 a year.
Help stop this atrocity now. Contributions may be made directly to The Rainforest Project or to other rainforest organizations.
Send contributions to The Rainforest Project to the following address:
The Rainforest Project
19335 Ranfre Lane
Saratoga, CA 95070
Send contributions to the Rainforest Action Network to the following address:
Rainforest Action Network
Membership Department
221 Pine Street #500
San Francisco, CA 94104
Send contributions to the International Society for the Preservation of Tropical Rainforests to the following address:
ISPTR
3302 N. Burton Ave.
Rosemead, CA 91770, USA
Send contributions to the World Wildlife Fund to the following address:
World Wildlife Fund
1250 Twenty-Fourth Street, N.W.
P.O. Box 97180
Washington, DC 20090-7180
Adopt an acre through the Center for Ecosystem Survival's Adopt An Acre program. Send contributions to the following address:
Center for Ecosystem Survival
699 Mississippi Street, Suite 106
San Francisco, CA 94107
Make a contribution to Forest.org. Visit the following online address:
http://forests.org/donate/
Save an acre of rainforest for $50 through the Tropical Rainforest Coalition's Save-an-Acre program. Send a check or money order to the following address:
Tropical Rainforest Coalition
21730 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 102
Cupertino, CA 95014
Save a rainforest species for $30 through the Tropical Rainforest Coalition's Save-a-Species program. Send a check or money order to the following address:
Tropical Rainforest Coalition
21730 Stevens Creek Blvd., Suite 102
Cupertino, CA 95014
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Plants & Animals
Important plants and animals that live in the rainforest.
Health & Medicines
Beneficial medicines and products that come from the rainforest.
Biodiversity
The diverse ecosystems that rainforests support.
Natives
Indigenous peoples that live in the rainforest.
Other uses
What we gain from rainforests.
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