Rainforest Saver SCIO

Rainforest Saver is a UK based charity whose main aim is to prevent tropical deforestation and alleviate poverty by regenerating soil and increasing agricultural yield.

Working in Africa and South and Central America we have been able to assist local people to grow more food without burning patches of forest for short-term fertility (Slash and burn farming), or the use of expensive and toxic agrochemicals. This support also stops them cutting down intact rainforest for wood for cooking and land to graze cattle.

We have had great success through a process of agroforestry. Native Inga trees grown in alleys build new soil between them. This fertile soil enables food to be grown where once it was almost impossible.

We are a small charity and only pay our local project leaders in each country to work directly with the farmers. We have trained over 100 farmers and indigenous communities in Ecuador, and over 30 villages in Cameroon. We have arrived at a place where we need to expand and share this inspiring work with more people.

Help us save rainforests, capture carbon to limit climate change, regenerate soil, and reduce hunger.