"I salute you for your imaginative approach and wish you continued success in its application. What you and your RainTrust colleagues are doing is highly laudable and very close to my own field of passion and concern. Congratulations! And, on behalf of all rainforests and indigenous people... Thank you!"

— Claes Nobel
Author, "Nobel Laureates Declaration of the Survival of Mankind" (1974)

"I congratulate RainTrust for its imaginative and farsighted approach to nature conservation and sustainable development. RainTrust's activities are fully in tune with the goals and aspirations of the United Nations, particularly as expressed in the Millenium Development Goals. I urge RainTrust to continue this important, lifesaving work and assure you of my support to its success."

— Michael Moller
Director of Political, Peace-keeping and Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Chef de Cabinet, Executive Office of the Secretary-General United Nations

"I am deeply impressed by the magnitude and importance of your great Brazilian venture. I cannot imagine of any other project that could accomplish so much: a valid solution to the most serious problems of deforestation in Brazil, with reasonable hopes to avert a global climatic catastrophe, while giving the local stake-holders in the rain-forest the opportunity to a livelihood that is profitable and sustainable."

— Ambassador Michael Breisky (Austria)
Former Austrian Consul General to the US

"Why do we underestimate the entrepreneurial side of poor people when we admire it so on rich people? It is not acceptable to have 4.5 Billion people out of 6 who reside at the bottom of the economic pyramid. In order to try and achieve the United Nations Millennium development goals we need to go beyond politics and so called human rights embargos and develop the entrepreneurial skills of the poorest where ever they may be. RainTrust was developed as a tool to assist in the facilitation in helping the poor people who should be considered business people and not charitable cases, entrepreneurs and not victims, value conscious consumers and not a burden to society. A world where the poorest people are considered by big business as the heart of their profit making strategies. The only way to solve the problems of poverty and terrorism in the world today is through investment. Whatever else we do to help the poor, local entrepreneurs have the power to create the greatest change for their countries. The entrepreneurial spirit does not have to be imported."

— Alexandre de Lesseps (Geneve)
Fulbright Humanitarian Award recipient in 2004

"As a passionate global citizen with a mission, I firmly believe that poverty and social injustice can ultimately be eradicated, provided that global nature preservation and conservation go in tandem. These are four NON-SEPARABLE issues. In our pursuit of Paradise, we trample and destroy the Garden of Eden. Realistic approaches and solutions are available to us all, if we just open our eyes to the possibilities. We can and MUST address humanity's reversible fate.

In RainTrust, one can see these positive approaches. RainTrust brings together 'Grand Scale' thinking and Small Scale practicality, offering us a solution with the size, scope, and vision that is fully capable of meeting the global challenge we face. I fully endorse the RainTrust approach and will proudly play my role in it."

— Jan Oosterwijk
Economist, Ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund, and European owner of The Body Shops, Ben & Jerry's Ice cream, and other pioneering companies (Amsterdam Holland)

"RainTrust is a brilliant concept - a private sector experiment in sustainable development in the Amazon. RainTrust generates commitment and applies new legal and market-based instruments - directly engaging people, organizations and markets. Best of all, RainTrust offers transparency: Based on satellite images, participants are invited to track what matters most - maintained, intact rainforest cover."

— Maritta Koch-Weser
President, Earth3000, Former Director for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development for the Latin America and Caribbean Region at the World Bank and Director General of IUCN - The World Conservation Union, the world's largest umbrella organization of environmental organizations. (Berlin, Germany)