Every acre of healthy rainforest makes a difference in the fight against global warming.

A single acre of Amazon rainforest stores up to 400,000 pounds of carbon. Every pound of carbon that fully burns can create 3.67 pounds of CO2 pollution, the single greatest cause of global warming. So every single acre you protect can help prevent hundreds of thousands of pounds of C02 pollution from being released into the atmosphere.

Perhaps even more importantly, by helping the rainforests remain healthy, you allow them to continue serving as our planet's natural defense against global warming, by absorbing massive amounts of CO2 pollution and producing life-giving oxygen.

In one year, the Amazon alone absorbs as much C02 as Western Europe produces from the burning on fossil fuels...while producing over 20% of the oxygen we breathe!

Without healthy rainforests, global warming would quickly would get a lot worse. The polar ice caps would start melting faster and faster, quickly raising sea levels and ocean temperatures far beyond the point of no return.

That's why every acre you protect really DOES make a difference in the fight against global warming. And thanks to the RainTrust "Ripple Effect," the impact of your tax-deductible contribution will be multiplied many times over, through our support of environmentally-sustainable programs that protect the future of the rainforest and its people.

Your rainforest sponsorship will be protected "in perpetuity," whether it's a sponsored one acre, a 10-acre reserve in the name of your family, a 10,000 sq. ft. student sponsorship, or part of one of the special large-scale reserves we're creating with various earth-friendly corporations and non-profit organizations.

We invite you to join us in our mission to protect the future of the planet and for generations to come.