World Rainforest Day
For a future with healthy, standing forests on a thriving planet.
Our Mission
Founded in 2017 by Rainforest Partnership, World Rainforest Day celebrates the importance of healthy, standing rainforests for climate, biodiversity, culture, and livelihoods— and convenes a global movement to protect and restore them.
In 2021, we launched the World Rainforest Day Summit, bringing together people and organizations from all sectors, all around the world for dialogue and community building with one shared purpose: to spark action and drive resilient forest protection.
Our partner network consists of rainforest organizations, indigenous groups, policy representatives, youth leaders, the private sector, and artists and creatives, among others, collaborating and innovating for more holistic forest impact.
World Rainforest Day 2023
at a Glance
The 2023 Summit, brought to life by over 30 organizations, convened registrants from 77 countries for vital discussions and seamless networking towards resilient forest impact.
77
Countries represented by Summit registrants
30+
Organizations
93.8M
Users reached with #WorldRainforestDay
In the Press
Rainforests are under siege. Here's what you should know.
World Rainforest Day: How we can save our existing rainforests
World Rainforest Day 2023: Conserve, Restore, Regenerate
World Rainforest Day: Celebrating the Amazon, the planet’s largest rainforest
World Rainforest Day: The world’s great rainforests
The sounds of Mexico’s last rainforest
Ben & Jerry’s joins initiative to ensure packaging doesn’t come at the expense of world’s vital forests
Here’s what happens if the world loses its rainforests
World Rainforest Day 2022: As rainforests are depleting, see what governments are doing to protect them
The World’s Top 10 Biggest Rainforests
Why Rainforests?
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Our Global Community
Our team
Core Team
Support Team
Niyanta founded Rainforest Partnership in 2007 with a clear vision for achieving ground-up and global-scale rainforest conservation that can provide the sweeping and rapid impact we need to protect biodiversity, sustain thriving rainforest communities, support a balanced climate, and ensure a livable planet for all. Prior to founding Rainforest Partnership, she worked at the first lobbying firm in London, led a management consultancy, and worked with Texas environmental agencies as part of a legislative agency.
Beth works with the CEO and leadership team to design and implement strategies across the organization: from top-level strategies such as vision and mission; to the operational strategies that inform campaigns, partnerships, messaging, and initiatives. A professional analyst and strategist, her 30 + years of experience are rooted in a two-decade career at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, before moving to the nonprofit sphere. Beth has been part of Rainforest Partnership since inception, first as a strategic planner, later as strategic advisor.
Luther, now living in Boston, has been working at Rainforest Partnership since the beginning of 2022 as an Executive Assistant to the CEO while also coordinating one of its new Global Initiatives, Rainforest Partnership Publishing, and completed a professional certificate in Geographic Information Systems and Data Communication from the University of Vermont. He has a B.A. from Boston College majoring in International Studies with a concentration in Global Environmental Issues.
Andrea leads strategy and implementation of Films for the Forest, RP’s forest-focused annual juried short film competition, and Music for the Forest, a new initiative to inspire and raise awareness about forests and climate change through the power of music. As a professional biologist, she has experience in the field of science communication within museums and the creation and management of strategies for audience engagement in educational and cultural environments.
