Save the Rainforest with Cool Earth

Why are rainforests so important?

Cool Earth is a charity that protects endangered rainforest to combat global warming, protect ecosystems and provide sustainable jobs for local people.

Working with partners throughout the Amazon, Cool Earth secures rainforest, helps protect it around the clock and ensures communities benefit from keeping the forest standing. Sponsoring an acre of rainforest with Cool Earth challenges global warming. find out more »

Rainforests under threat

Rainforests are made of living carbon - more than 260 tonnes are locked away in each acre. Destroying them releases more climate warming CO2 each year than the entire USA.

In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. That’s 100 acres cleared every minute to create short-term farmland for crops such as soya or palm oil, or for cattle ranching. find out more »

Keeping carbon where it belongs

Unless rainforest is more valuable standing than cut down, the Amazon will be cleared in 50 years. Cool Earth enables individuals and organisations to help protect rainforest and keep carbon where it belongs. find out more »

Since 2007 Cool Earth's sponsors around the world have:

• Protected thousands of acres of endangered rainforest
• Prevented millions of tonnes of CO2 emissions
• Conserved many thousands of species at risk of extinction