We are fighting to protect forests around the globe from deforestation and degradation — setting them on a path to restoration. Working together with Indigenous Peoples, allies, and individuals like you, we're calling out the industries and companies destroying our forests, and the governments who have failed to protect them.

Forests help stabilize the climate, sustain a diversity of life, provide economic opportunity, and are the source of culture for many Indigenous Peoples. Yet, forests and other critical ecosystems are hanging in the balance, as there is increasing pressure to convert forests to croplands, pasture, and plantations. Currently, there are deeply inadequate protections against activities that degrade the value of forests.

The decades of exploitation have destroyed and degraded much of the Earth’s natural forests. In fact, we’ve already lost half of our forest land globally. Across the planet — from the Amazon to Canada and Indonesia — large areas are being degraded, due in large part to unsustainable industrial activities. The need to protect those forests that remain is more urgent than ever. Losing these vital ecosystems is displacing communities, threatening the habitats of rare and endangered species, and spewing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In 2019, two UN science reports, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Landuse Report, and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services underlined the urgency of saving forests in order to curb the extinction crisis and fight climate change. To avoid further consequences, we urgently need to protect what is left.