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Unpacking Sustainable Food Systems, Part 1: Agroforestry and Rainforests
Agroforestry and Rainforest Communities I remember walking up a hill, a heavy bucket in one hand, water sloshing onto the ground with each awkward step. To my right was a steep slope down to the sea, overlooking black volcanic rocks and sea lions playing along...
Films for the Forest’s Global Impact Grows: Welcoming F3’s First Event Partner, Size of Wales!
What a year! At Climate Week NYC 2020, Films for the Forest screened our first ever online event that allowed us to reach countries and communities that we wouldn't have been able to connect with in person. F3 also hosted our first film premier and screening of Forest...
Trees and Turtles? The best rainforest gifts this holiday season
When we visit special natural spaces like parks, beaches, or rainforests, we’re told to “take only pictures, leave only footprints.” We’re told not to make a permanent mark on these places. But there are ways to make a lasting, powerful, and positive footprint on...
2020 Fire Season: the Amazon is Still Burning
The path opposite the river led me straight into the depths of the forest. I crossed the thick threshold of trees that lined the clearing where we had set up our tent. The landscape that unfolded before my eyes in that dense and remote forest was simply humbling....
Corosha Community in Peru gets Seed Grants for Local Entrepreneurship
In the highlands of the Amazon region, the Corosha campesina (peasant) community zealously protects 2,282, 12 hectares of montane forest that is a refuge for numerous rare and highly threatened species such as orchids, ferns, puma, yellow-tailed woolly monkey, toucan,...
Conversations in Climate Activism: Gen Z for the Trees Team Member Jamie Ziah
Gen Z for the Trees and our blog series “Conversations in Climate Activism” are creating a space for young people to come together, feel empowered, and explore what it means to be an activist. We’re exploring our roles and identities as young people living in the...
Discover 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Tropical Rainforests
Tropical rainforests are being degraded at rapid, alarming rates. Logging, agriculture, oil extraction, and mining are some of the main drivers of deforestation in places like the Amazon. The destruction of tropical rainforests doesn't just affect the animals or...
Conversations in Climate Activism with Gen Z for the Trees: Julia Gentner from Bad Activist Podcast
On imperfection, humility, community-care, and collective action Back in July, months into the COVID-19 pandemic, I was sitting outside after the sun had set. Like for so many others around the world, it was an isolating time, and a turbulent one. Living with an...
Rainforests for Rainforests’ Sake? Getting Real About Global Climate
As a kid, I was always a ‘how’ learner. It wasn’t enough to know that something happened, I wanted to understand how it worked. When we learned about water and nutrient cycles for the first time in school, I was fascinated. It was like magic, getting to see the how...
