The Nature Conservancy's Accomplishments in Rainforests Around the World

• The Nature Conservancy is currently working with its partners to protect tropical and temperate rainforests in 23 countries throughout North America, Central America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific.
• The Nature Conservancy's Adopt an Acre® program has already helped to protect more than 600,000 acres of important rainforests around the globe.
• Francisco Solis, the Chilean lawyer-turned-baker-turned conservationist helped The Nature Conservancy and its partners purchase 147,500 acres of Chile's important Valdivian Coastal Range.
• During a five-week expedition into the remote Indonesian rainforests on the island of Borneo, Nature Conservancy scientists discovered several new species, including a "monster cockroach" that is believed to be the largest species of roach in the world.
• In the Amazon rainforest, The Nature Conservancy and its Brazilian partner organizations are protecting the Serra do Divisor National Park by building the local community's ability to implement and conduct natural resource management, environmental research and ecotourism.
• In 1975, The Nature Conservancy helped Costa Rica create the 100,000-acre Corcovado National Park on the Osa Peninsula. Today, The Nature Conservancy is part of a coalition to create a 10,000-acre conservation corridor between Corcovado and Piedras Blancas National Parks.
• The Nature Conservancy is backing one of the most ambitious conservation efforts ever undertaken: ensuring a healthy future for 21 million acres of Canada's Great Bear Rainforest — a land of mist-shrouded valleys and glacier-cut fjords, old-growth forests, rich salmon streams and the rare spirit bear.
• In Indonesia's East Kalimantan province, The Nature Conservancy is working with the local government, forest industry and forest-dependent indigenous groups, to help protect this important rainforest and all the life that depends on it.
  
  The Nature Conservancy's efforts include:
  • Seeking protected status for vital orangutan habitat found within the forest; and
  • Establishing a timber certification program with Home Depot, which promotes the purchase of timber that has been harvested using sustainable techniques.

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A small freshwater stream runs through the Valdivian Coastal Reserve
© Mark Godfrey/TNC
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