Rainforest meets ocean. We see someone in a canoe next to a palm lined shore with a large misty hill covered in trees in the background.

New Guinea Rainforest

The third-largest rainforest on Earth.

The rainforest in New Guinea boasts monumental Earth-cooling potential – our work here aims to keep it that way.

Stretching 73 million hectares, the New Guinea rainforest is incredibly biodiverse, resource-rich and extremely valuable. Valuable to the people that call it home, to exploitative industries and in the fight against the climate crisis.

This rainforest stores around 6.9 billion tonnes of carbon and counting. Crucially, it is still a carbon sink (it captures and stores more carbon than it emits) but it needs protection.

Mining, logging and industrial farming is increasing in The New Guinea. The climate breakdown effects that come with this threatens the health of rainforest, the lives of the people that live there and the processes that balance the climate.

New Guinea is changing

Rainforest has always been managed and kept healthy by local and indigenous people.

To keep New Guinea rainforest healthy, we must come together to protect it.

7% of the world’s species live in New Guinea

This 7% of global species live on an island that covers just 1% of the land’s surface.

7% of the world’s species live in New Guinea

This 7% of global species live on an island that covers just 1% of the land’s surface.

Home to many rare and critically endangered species.

The cuscus, the singing dog, bats, echidnas and beautiful birds of paradise and even the world’s tiniest frog.

Communities in rainforest are often extremely remote.

Schools and health centres can be multiple days of travel away, with access dependent on whether heavy rain has broken river banks.

New Guinea and the communities that nurture it experience extreme weather.

Inland flooding can ruin crops, landslides, droughts and wildfires - all made worse by deforestation.

Trees need biodiversity

Animals, birds, insects and reptiles create balance in rainforest and ensure that they stay carbon sinks.

Protecting Biodiversity

The rainforest in New Guinea boasts monumental Earth-cooling potential – our work here aims to keep it that way.

New Guinea is changing

Trees need biodiversity

FROM THE FOREST FLOOR

Partnerships in this rainforest