Forest Trends Impact Report 2024
A Rainbow of Solutions
Next year, we’re celebrating the 25th anniversary of Forest Trends. We find ourselves reflecting on the journey we’ve been on. In some ways, we’ve made amazing progress, and in other respects, not nearly enough. We are still living in an economic system that puts us on a dead-end path — extracting natural resources like there’s […]
Forest Trends Impact Report 2023
The Magic of Coalitions
Climate change, forest loss, the biodiversity crisis, the sustainable development imperative: none of these can be fixed through business as usual. None of these challenges will be addressed by individuals, individual institutions, nor individual countries. It will take all of us together. This is why we spend so much time investing in people and in […]
Forest Trends Impact Report 2022
Resilience in Action
Forest Trends was founded with the mission of putting an economic engine behind nature conservation – the idea being that our economy, our society, and our wellbeing all depend in very real and material ways on healthy natural ecosystems. That idea’s time has come. The world is looking to “nature-based solutions” to combat climate change, mitigate […]
Forest Trends Impact Report 2021
We are a conservation organization. But as you turn the pages of this Impact Report, you’ll find not untouched natural landscapes, but people — the faces of the people we work with every day. “Conservation,” in the sense of putting up a fence around a pristine area, is a 20th-century idea. That approach may still […]
Forest Trends Impact Report 2020
You can’t run conservation trainings, gather partners, meet with government ministers, or conduct scientific field work during a pandemic – at least not the way you normally do. Yet in 2020, so much important work was done to lay the runway for tremendous climate action in 2021, even if that work didn’t dominate news headlines. […]
Forest Trends Impact Report 2019
When we founded Forest Trends twenty years ago, we wanted this organization to be nimble – to be able to move fast when opportunities arose. But even by our standards, the pace has been extraordinary this year. In this year’s Impact Report, we highlight the results of our programs, and important stories from the places […]
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