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Biodiversity Loss Correlation to Disease Outbreaks
Prevailing perception encompasses a mindset in which humans are an isolated species in the world, unique in our ability to alter the environment and buffer ourselves from its effects. The interdependence between us, our environment, and other life on earth has become...
Thank You for an Incredible Films for the Forest 2020!
We traveled to rainforests around the globe on Earth Day 2020! Geographic distance was no match for the power of the gifted visual storytellers whose films made it to the Films for the Forest (F3) 2020 online screening. We love being part of SXSW, and look...
You’re Invited to the Celebration: World Rainforest Day 2020
The World Rainforest Day team is thrilled to invite everyone to come together on June 22nd for a powerful day of virtual action. World Rainforest Day is a 24-hour celebration of our world’s rainforests, essential places for biodiversity, economic growth, and...
Join me on Earth Day and watch Films for the Forest Live
It's a great time to visit the forest. Go there and understand. Go there and experience. Go there and be inspired. Go there and experience the flourishing life, people, cultures and their stories. If you think you can't go there right now, think again. Film has the...
Films for the Forest 2020: Bringing the forest to you
Films for the Forest will not be cancelled, the show must go on. Rainforest Partnership’s Films for the Forest, screened as part of the annual SXSW Community Screening for the past eight years, is moving online for the first time since its inception. It will air in...
The Link Between COVID-19, Climate Change, and Biodiversity Loss: A Reason to be Hopeful
This is a frightening and unprecedented time in our world. People around the globe are getting sick, others are sheltering in their homes or working double shifts at hospitals, grocery stores, and warehouses. Despite all the damage the pandemic has caused and the...
Insights from Peru in Times of Global Pandemic – Jhordy Orchuaranga
Jhordy Orchuaranga, Communities Specialist at Rainforest Partnership, talked to us about how the recent outbreak affected his daily routine. "In these times where chaos grips many, nature takes a break powered by the COVID-19 virus which has paralyzed many countries...
Insights from Peru in Times of Global Pandemic – Rosa Gordillo
Rosa Gordillo, Projects Coordinator at Rainforest Partnership, shared her personal experience with the recent pandemic as stated below: "The night of March 15, 2020 I was traveling by truck from our field site Corosha to Jaen, to take the flight to Lima the next...
Insights from Peru in Times of Global Pandemic – Carlos Tello
Carlos Tello, Administrator and Biodiversity Specialist at Rainforest Partnership, shared his thoughts on this pandemic while working from home: "As RP's administrator, during the government-mandated quarantine of the pandemic, I have moved office work to my home. "I...