The Rainforest Foundation was founded with a radically new idea: 

What if Indigenous people of the rainforest–those intimately connected to their ancestral lands–had the legal right to protect the forests we all depend on?

At the time, environmental organizations didn’t focus on Human Rights. In fact, people were frequently seen as part of the problem. But Sting and Trudie Styler listened to the Kayapo, an Indigenous community living deep in the Brazilian Amazon and decided put their might behind the Indigenous defenders that were fighting to protect their rainforest lands just as they always had.

Work in partnership with indigenous groups and local grassroots organizations throughout the Americas to:

Secure rights to their lands.

Influence laws and policies to protect their resources.

Build strong and sustainable community leadership.