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Visit the World Rainforest Day's website
The 22nd June is World Rainforests Day. Rainforests are vital for life to survive on Earth. Their loss threatens our biodiversity and imperils earth’s health. We ignore this loss at our peril.
World Rainforest Day was founded back in 2017 by the Rainforest Partnership. It celebrates the importance of healthy, standing rainforests for climate, biodiversity, culture and livelihoods. Crucially, it convenes a global movement to protect them and restore them. The Pledge programme mentioned below is launching in 2024 to drive rainforest and climate action across all sectors immediately.
Natural climate solutions such as protecting and restoring forests could reverse global emissions by a third, according to World Rainforest Day.
This day is held to celebrate rainforests and encourage us all to protect them. If we can all unite and become a forest of action that rains on earth, then we can make a huge difference.
In 2025, the theme is #BreatheWithUs,
In 2025, World Rainforest Day is aiming to activate one million Planet Walkers to send a global message of human connection. In the world's seven continents, there will be an immersive livestream of forests walks. These will be led by Planet Walkers such as indigenous leaders, scientists, rangers, and changemakers, and they will be guiding everyone through earth's vital ecosystems. Join the Planet Walkers here.
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Be a Planet Walker - take yourself through a forest or park or trail. Share your journey on social media. Why not explain what nature and these forests or parks mean to you and how they benefit your wellbeing?
The World Rainforest Day website has these things we can all do to make a positive impact on rainforests, today and every day:
Ways to help rainforests
- Volunteer for a rainforest charity! Many charities need help not just from a practical sense but also in the "back office" with those behind-the-scenes but essential tasks.
- Vote with nature in mind! Show leaders that you care about our natural world and want to preserve it.
- Choose local products and ask about where items are sourced. Many rainforests are cut down for agriculture and cattle ranching. Go meat free one day a week if you can.
- Find out about the different fauna and flora in rainforests, such as lichen. The British Lichen Society has this great video about it from one of Dartmoor's temperate rainforests
- Take a look at Global Forest Watch. It is a fascinating site and it provides tools and data for monitoring forests. For instance, you can see the alerts for forests fires
- Discover about temperate rainforests, too! The Woodland Trust has 8 rainforests to explore in the UK - check them out here.
- Share your discoveries and what is being done to help rainforests on social media. We need to show people that there is a lot going on - and that people can and do make a difference.
- Find out about woodland management techniques, such as coppicing from the National Trust
- Visit Rainforest Rescue, whose mission is to give the rainforest a voice and preserve it in all its splendor. It has petitions you can sign to give rainforests your voice, and projects it runs to protect them, thanks to donor support. The petitions expose destructive projects and name the perpetrators, so they are important.
- There are many charities you can donate to to help rainforests such as the World Land Trust. £100 is one acre protected, but you don't have to give £100. Every bit helps! They have an Action Fund which enables them to respond fast when urgent conservation action is needed - find out about that here.
Find out more from World Rainforest Day’s website.
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