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Rainforests
Exotic, Diverse and Highly Threatened
Rainforests of the World
Wild and wondrous, rainforests extend from as far as Alaska and Canada to Latin America, Asia and Africa. They nurture thousands of plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth and provide life's essentials such as our medicines, food and water.
The Nature Conservancy is working around the world in places like Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula to protect rainforests, engaging local and indigenous communities in creative solutions that balance the needs of people with nature.
Besides providing food, water and air to the rest of the world, rainforests offer critical habitat for many of the Earth's most interesting and rare plants and animals. And temperate and tropical rainforests play a key role in climate change, helping to regulate the Earth's temperature and weather patterns.
Our Work to Protect Rainforests
The Nature Conservancy has launched many conservation programs to protect these vital forests and all the plants, animals and people that depend on them. As some of the last truly wild places left in the world, rainforests deserve our immediate attention. You can help preserve the world's rainforests and the local communities around them when you Adopt an Acre® of rainforest today.
Explore the Osa Peninsula, where the jungle meets the sea.
Over the last 40 years, one-fifth of the Amazon has been cut down.
The Great Bear Rainforest is the largest coastal temperate rainforest on Earth.
Our work in Chile’s Valdivian Coastal Reserve benefits people and nature.
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
We’re helping loggers in Indonesia make changes that keep more trees standing.
In Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest, one researcher goes in search of grizzlies.
Do you know how fast the world's rainforests are disappearing?
Share your love of rainforests with someone special.
Explore Rainforests
See beautiful images of Rainforests around the world, and download one for your desktop!
Explore the magic of the rainforest with our photo slideshow.
Journey deep into the Great Bear Rainforest in this audio slideshow.
Canada's Great Bear Rainforest
Capturing DNA samples from Grizzly Bears along the Koeye River in Canada's Great Bear Rainforest.
This remote paradise harbors a diversity of habitats and biological richness found nowhere else on Earth.
The discovery of a previously unknown population of wild orangutans here in East Kalimantan has provided new hope and a catalyst for conservation efforts.
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Adopt an Acre of Rainforest
Protect one of the world's most extraordinary, yet highly threatened rainforests - the Osa Peninsula.