Rainforest Trust

The Rainforest Trust is a non-profit organization (NPO) environmental protection organization under American law, which was founded on December 8, 1988 in New York . The underlying idea is to buy land in tropical areas and protect it in order to preserve the endangered species that live there. The original name was World Parks Endowment . In 2006 they merged with World Land Trust , an English NPO environmental organization, and renamed themselves “World Land Trust-US” in order to optimize costs and invest more in individual projects. On September 16, 2013, as part of the 25th anniversary celebration, they changed the name to Rainforest Trust .

The organization supports the purchase of large areas of land by local NGOs in a way that is comparable to what “ The Nature Conservancy ” does. So far, areas in the order of 47,000 km ^{2 have been} placed under protection.

Sample projects

Completed

• Protection for gorillas in the rainforest of the Congo approx. 4500 km ² .
• Protection of the cloud forest in Ecuador approx. 6 km ² .
• Sanctuary for bow-forehead hammerheads in the Golfo Dulce in Costa Rica approx. 700 km ² .

In progress

• Protecting the indigenous habitat in the Amazon region of Peru approx. 24,700 km ² .
• Protection of wild animals in Java approx. 40 km ² .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ October 2006 - World Parks Endowment becomes World Land Trust-US . World Land Trust-US. October 2006. Accessed December 21, 2018.
2. ↑ Major Protection for Grauer's Gorillas in the Congo Rainforest
3. ↑ Land Purchase Campaign to Save Ecuadorian Cloud Forest
4. ↑ Sanctuary for the Scalloped Hammerheads of Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica
5. ^ Saving Indigenous Lands in the Amazon
6. ↑ Conserving Endangered Wildlife in Java

Web links

• Organization website
• New York Times