Rainforest Foundation

Rainforest Foundation us's (rfus) programs are tackling the world's most urgent challenges: biodiversity loss, climate change, and human rights. We partner with indigenous peoples and local communities to protect vital Rainforest ecosystems and address the climate crisis. We provide financial and technical support to indigenous and local communities and organizations to secure their rights to their traditional lands and protect their forests and livelihoods. We work to protect the tropical rainforests of central and south america, and in 2022 we worked in the countries of peru, guyana, panama, and brazil. Our programs focus on delivering the following three services: land titling, legal defense and advocacy. Rfus works with indigenous peoples and local communities to understand andexercise their rights; map and demarcate their territories, and to obtain legal representation to secure land rights, settle disputes and seek justice for human rights violations perpetrated against environmental defenders. Territorial governance and security: rfus supports partners to monitor and secure their territories, strengthen collective forest governance and management, and issue evidence-based advocacy to address deforestation on their lands. Direct finance: rfus supports the establishment and financing of indigenous peoples and local community-led territorial facilities to sustain forest protection strategies, the strengthening of partners' institutional capacities to administer increased financial flows, and abilities to negotiate new economy-building partnerships for their communities.