World Rainforest Day
We invite you to join a global movement for our future with healthy, standing forests on a thriving planet.

Our 2022 Summit at a Glance

60
Organizations

32
Workshops & sessions

84
Industry experts & frontline guardians

10X growth
In attendees since last year

73
Countries represented

9.9M
Individual users reached with #WorldRainforestDay
In the Press
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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

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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

Rainforests are under siege. Here's what you should know.

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

World Rainforest Day 2021: Significance and Steps You Can Take to Help Save Rainforests

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.
Why Rainforests?
Let’s start with the basics. Rainforests are a type of forest where rainfall is continuous and abundant all year round. Most of our planet’s rainforests are found in the tropics, but they can also be found in temperate zones. Although when we think of rainforests we generally imagine vast regions of land covered in dense vegetation, these ecosystems only cover around 6% of Earth’s surface. However, in such a small area they harbor a disproportionate amount of terrestrial species; around 50% of all terrestrial biodiversity is found in the world’s rainforests.
Not only do rainforests hold invaluable genetic resources and countless evolutionary marvels, but they are thought of as “living pharmacies”. Their great and mostly unknown diversity is an untapped resource for new medicines and therapies. This diversity is also the source of many products we use in our daily lives, like coffee, cacao, spices, common fruits and vegetables– and that’s just scratching the surface. Other products, like beef or the palm oil found in shampoo and many common hygiene and food products are directly related to rainforest deforestation worldwide.
Rainforests play a crucial role in both climate regulation and carbon absorption and storage. By cycling water through their networks of trees, they create currents that serve to transport water through entire continents, cooling them down and providing them with a reliable water source. They also protect from erosion, drought, and floods, keeping the conditions of their perimeter relatively stable. Rainforests also pump carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it in trees and soil, where it is safely captured and used by living organisms.
Their capacity to absorb and store carbon and to regulate climate over entire continents makes rainforests our greatest allies when it comes to countering and reversing some of the worst effects of climate change. Rainforests are the original carbon capture tool, and they continue to play this role as we wait for innovative, scalable technologies to catch up.
These amazing ecosystems are also home to millions of people who represent invaluable knowledge, traditions, and cultural diversity. The Amazon alone is home to over 30 million people, including 350 Indigenous and ethnic groups who directly depend on the rainforest for food, clothing, medicines, and culture. Indigenous and local rainforest communities are crucial in the protection of our planet’s rainforests and biodiversity, and their knowledge and participation are key assets in restructuring systems and developing sustainable, lasting nature-based solutions.
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World Rainforest Day Summit
June 22, 2023
Conserve. Restore. Regenerate.
Hear from those at the forefront of rainforest protection, explore conservation solutions, and connect with our global community. The Summit is fully virtual and free to attend.
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Our team
Core Team
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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.

Amalia is a Colombian biologist who is passionate about rainforest ecology and conservation. As director of education and research, she works with a team of dedicated interns and volunteers to create engaging educational content about the world's most valuable rainforests. Curious by nature, she devotes her time to understanding how to harmonize the interactions between humans and natural ecosystems, particularly rainforests. She likes to spend her free time drawing and tattooing.

Susan is a creative strategist with expertise in nonprofit marketing and developing integrated multi-channel marketing automation, branding and content campaigns and has a passion for results-oriented, data-driven marketing. She is a a dreamer but also a doer creating positive user experiences grounded in visual design, storytelling, and data analysis to achieve effective business outcomes through empathy for the user.