The Prince’s Rainforests Project

The Prince’s Rainforests Project works with governments, business, NGOs and individuals to increase global recognition of the contribution of tropical deforestation to climate change and to find ways to make the rainforests worth more alive than dead.

Set up in October 2007 by HRH The Prince of Wales, The Prince’s Rainforests Project recognises the global role played by forests in mitigating climate change, and the acute pressure put on the rainforests by the worldwide population growth and rise in commodity prices. There is an increasing awareness of the need to urgently protect the world’s rainforests, their people and their resources. It is into this space that HRH The Prince of Wales has stepped with The Prince’s Rainforests Project.

A number of initiatives have already been undertaken by the Project: reports of project activity can be found on its website. In addition, the Project will work alongside other governmental and non-governmental initiatives, including the critical United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process to complement and add to the work they are doing. The Project will also look at informing and engaging public interest on this subject, collecting mass support to drive political will.

Visit www.rainforestSOS.org in order to sign up and stay informed. You can also follow The Prince's Rainforests Project on Twitter @RainforestSOS.

The task is to review, develop and propose practical mechanisms that acknowledge the true value of the eco-system services provided by the world’s remaining rainforests. These solutions need to provide credible incentives to host nations, and to local communities, and must out-compete the drivers of rainforest destruction.

HRH The Prince of Wales