Rainforest Concern Protecting biodiversity for 25 years

Rainforest Concern's programmes focus on vital areas where a relatively small amount of research and conservation can make huge changes.

Robin Hanbury-Tenison OBE, explorer, writer and President of Survival International

What we do

Direct conservation involves the protection and management of native forests to create protected reserves. This includes the purchase of land, usually in the name of the local NGO or the local communities, the registration of ancestral indigenous territories and the reforestation of cleared areas. Particular emphasis is placed on the creation of 'forest corridors' that connect existing protected areas and thereby avoid the risk of fragmentation. This greatly assists the effectiveness of these reserves by enabling species to move freely from one to another.

Who we are

Rainforest Concern was established as a UK registered charity in 1993 to protect threatened natural habitats and the biodiversity they contain, together with the indigenous people who depend on them for survival. In 25 years we have helped to protect 2.2 million hectares of threatened forests.

In partnership with Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh

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Overseas

Sonja Dillmann

Neblina Reserve, Ecuador

Sonja Dillmann has been Rainforest Concern's project manager for the Neblina reserve in Ecuador since 2012. She manages the Neblina Reserve from co-ordinating the forest guards, to overseeing the purchase of new land.
Overseas

Suprabha Seshan

Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary, India

Conservationist Suprabha Seshan is the director of GBS. In 2006 she won the Whitley Award for Nature, and has travelled extensively educating others about the importance of a healthy, biologically diverse planet.
Overseas

Carlos Fernandez

Urpiano Beach, Costa Rica

Environmental lawyer, Carlos Fernandez has worked with Rainforest Concern since 2007. First as our legal representative in Costa Rica for the Pacuare Reserve and now as manager of Urpiano turtle conservation project.
Overseas

Professor Antonio Lara

FORECOS, Chile

Antonio Lara is the President of FORECOS foundation, Rainforest Concern's project partner for the Nasampulli reserve. Through this collaboration, we help to protect Chile's endangered native monkey puzzle forests.
Overseas

Carlos Zorrilla

DECOIN, Ecuador

Rainforest Concern collaborates with Carlos Zorrilla and his grassroots organization DECOIN to protect the extremely biodiverse Intag cloud forest, and halt mining activities in this area of northwest Ecuador.

Where we work

Colombia

Yaigoje Apaporis National Park

1.1 million hectare National Park created in the Colombian Amazon, managed by indigenous communities

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Since 1993 Rainforest Concern:

Has helped to protect over 2.2 million hectares of threatened forest
13 countries: Panama, Brazil, Colombia, Belize, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Romania, India, Suriname, Peru
Over 30 conservation projects and 21 partner organisations