Impact

Transferring funds and resources to rainforest communities has remarkable results for all.

3.7M

Hectares of Rainforest Protected by Communities

Explore our holistic approach to planetary health

More Money,
More Forests

We bridge global resources and funds to rainforest communities.

Thriving
Communities

Rainforest communities use traditional knowledge and local expertise to design holistic climate solutions to protect the forest.

Protecting
Biodiversity

Rainforest communities safeguard rainforests, home to half of Earth’s biodiversity.

The impact is
climate stability

Every $1 invested into Amazon rainforest communities is expected to prevent up to $120 of carbon emissions

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Community Thriving Narratives is a platform to amplify Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and Afrodescendant Peoples’ citizen journalism.

This process, owned by and led by communities, represents a move away from narrow, top-down evaluation approaches and facilitates a knowledge transfer of the Indigenous science, cultural, and spiritual practice of living in balance with nature to a global audience.

Audio: In Madagascar, where we use bioacoustic monitoring to monitor wildlife health, 89% of the species detected are endemic, underscoring the region’s astounding biodiversity. This audio recording is a Malagasy coucal (Centropus toulou) and a long-billed bernieria (Bernieria madagascariensis) in the Manombo rainforest.

Camera footage: We collaborate with our partners in Indonesia, Alam Sehat Lestari (ASRI) and Gunung Palung National Park (GPNP) to monitor wildlife through cameras. The camera footage here is of a Burung Enggang in Gunung Palung National Park in Indonesia.

We work with research partners to use sound and video to monitor wildlife and therefore the health of the rainforest's biodiversity over time.

Indigenous Peoples and local communities manage 500 million hectares of tropical rainforest, protecting 60 billion metric tons of solid carbon.

On average, we expect every dollar invested in the rainforests that HIH support to prevent around $12 of carbon dioxide emissions. However, in particularly critical areas such as the Apyterewa territory (pictured), stewarded by the Indigenous Parakanã people in the Brazilian Amazon, an investment that reduces the rate of deforestation by a mere 10% is expected to avert 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions over a 5-year period— this equates to averting nearly $120 of carbon dioxide emissions for every $1 invested.

A Global Approach

We work with rainforest communities in the Amazon, Andes, and Congo Basins, as well as Indonesia. Why basins? Rainforest basins collect and release rainwater slowly, preventing floods, ensuring a steady water supply and healthy soil, reducing erosion, and supporting vital biodiversity and local communities.

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