Aerial view of rainforest with large yellow flowering tree beside river at sunset, with small buildings below.

Where you can help protect forests

Our protected areas in Peru and Canada

The regions with the greatest biodiversity on our planet

Playful monkeys, rare coastal wolves and centuries-old jungle trees – the world’s rainforests are not only a wonder of nature, but also essential for a future worth living. Together with Wilderness International, you can protect them for ever.

Secret Forest in Peru

In the world’s most biodiverse rainforest

Playful monkeys, mysterious jaguars and vine-draped jungle giants – the rainforests in the Madre de Dios region are considered the most biodiverse place in the world!

Thanks to the favourable climatic conditions and geological history, there are 10 times more reptiles and amphibians here than in Germany. Around 10 per cent of all the world’s bird species can be spotted here, and on a single hectare of forest you can find around 400 tree species – more than in the whole of Europe north of the Alps!

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Dense tropical rainforest with moss-covered tree trunks, twisted branches, and lush green vegetation.

This is how much forest we have already protected in Peru:

Donations

have wilderness sponsors

m2 old-growth forest

protected forever, thereby ensuring that

tonnes of CO2

remain permanently bound in the forest’s biomass

Misty Forest in Canada

The most species-rich ecosystem in the Northern Hemisphere
British Columbia is home to the world’s last remaining large contiguous areas of temperate rainforest – and this old-growth forest is a true natural wonder!

It is home to wild coastal wolves, salmon-fishing bald eagles, mystical spirit bears, rare carnivorous sundews and gigantic primeval giants such as maple trees, Alaskan cedars, Douglas firs and giant thuja trees, which can live for up to 2,000 years and grow to a height of 100 metres. Furthermore, the forests, primeval giants and forest bogs in our Canadian protected areas are absolute masters of CO2 storage and one of the most important ‘sinks’ in the Earth’s carbon cycle.
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Aerial view of turquoise lake with forested islands, surrounded by dense coniferous forests and mountains under cloudy skies.

This is how much forest we have already protected in Canada:

Donations

have wilderness sponsors

m2 old-growth forest

protected forever, thereby ensuring that

tonnes of CO2

remain permanently bound in the forest’s biomass

Stories from our protected areas