Forest Allies is a community of practice focused on protecting, restoring, and enabling responsible management of tropical forests. Together with company partners, we will build and foster unique partnerships, work beyond individual supply chains, and engage and empower local communities in critical forest landscapes. We invite your company to join our Forest Allies community to have a greater impact on forests.
The best guardians of the forest are those who make their living from it. But forest communities often lack access to the resources that would enable their enterprises to meet their full economic potential. Through membership in Forest Allies, business partners will support the Rainforest Alliance’s model of Integrated Community Forest Management, which focuses on both protecting natural forests and partnering with communities to build strong local economies.
To positively affect tropical forests and their communities, join the critical work of Forest Allies by becoming a member. Contact us at forests@ra.org.
Forest Allies aims to create long-lasting impact through people and partnerships. With our community of practice, we want to contribute to:
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Our proven approach to protecting forests puts communities and livelihoods first.
Forest conservation, restoration, and improved land management practices increase carbon storage and avoid GHG emissions.
Learn more about how joining the Forest Allies community will help you have a greater impact on forests within—and beyond—your supply chain.
We invite your company to join our Forest Allies community of practice to have a greater impact on forests within—and beyond—your supply chain. Listed here are the benefits and commitments included in membership.
A community of practice forms when individuals come together for a common goal. Members represent stakeholders that would typically not have the opportunity to collaborate. The group exchanges knowledge, inspiration, and solutions for shared challenges.
To protect the livelihoods of 1.6 billion people, we must act swiftly to protect and restore the forests they depend upon. Integrated Community Forest Management works to do just that, embodying the Rainforest Alliance’s vision of people and nature thriving in harmony.
Conserving forests is at the heart of the Rainforest Alliance’s mission. This paper outlines our principles and strategies for stopping forest degradation and supporting forest communities in vulnerable tropical regions. These include our pathway towards integrated community forest management. This approach recognizes the interdependency of local communities’ livelihoods and their natural environment, and helps create […]
At the Rainforest Alliance, we know that those who make their living from the forest have a powerful incentive to protect it. With this principle in mind, we launched Forest Allies in 2021 to leverage corporate support for the bold local action needed to halt forest degradation and deforestation and mitigate the global climate crisis. […]
Learn about the outcomes and impacts of our Forest Allies Initiative. This 2022 annual report summarizes the activities and progress of the Forest Allies initiative and includes the results of our Integrated Community Forest Management monitoring and evaluation baseline assessment conducted across our project portfolio.
Get to know Forest Allies in this brochure. It is a community of practice focused on protecting, restoring, and enabling responsible management of tropical forests.
In this two-pager we analyze how the Forest Allies initiative contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations
This tool has been developed by the Rainforest Alliance with support from IIED (Victor Milla, Duncan Macqueen) and field tested by the Rainforest Alliance in Indonesia, Guatemala and Cameroon, to implement community based monitoring in our community forest projects, in particular those supported by the Forest Allies initiative. It is based on the four pillars […]
Through the Forest Allies community of practice, we can help your company: Invest in forest conservation and restoration beyond your operations. Recognize Indigenous Peoples and local communities as effective forest stewards and future business partners. Collaborate with a range of stakeholders to leverage the impact of your investment. Forest Allies brings together companies, regional civil […]