Tech-enabled Rainforest Protection

How we’re protecting 2.5M hectares of rainforest—that’s 7,000× the size of Central Park

The expansions of the Rainforest Alert program into the Santa Clotilde region and Monterrico de Angoteros community will help protect an extra 2.5M hectares of Amazon rainforest.

California Fund

A look at our project’s recent community action for Amazon Rainforest Day

40+ Indigenous forest monitoring patrols helped identify primary routes for illegal loggers and local armed groups.

California Fund

Your support stops illegal logging in its tracks

San Fernando patrollers catch illegal loggers red-handed and put a stop to their harmful activities.

California Fund

An update from Buen Jardín de Callarú

This year, Wren supporters and other partners will finance two new centers in Lancha Poza and Tempestad.

California Fund

100k+ acres of Indigenous land reclaimed, thanks to you.

How Tech-enabled rainforest protection empowers community-led solutions for the climate crisis.

California Fund

Putting a spotlight on the Indigenous Women protecting the Amazon Rainforest

Our Tech-enabled Rainforest Protection project is tackling gender inclusion this Indigenous Peoples Day.

California Fund

An 84% decrease in deforestation—thanks to your support

Not only are Wren subscribers making an impact on CO₂ and the climate, but we’re also making a difference for the Indigenous Amazonians who are monitoring their rainforest.

California Fund

Profile in Forbes Gives a Face to Wren's project in the Amazon

Forbes profiled Betty Padilla, an indigenous monitor on this project. Her story is inspiring.

Project update

Watch a video from the ground at our project in the Peruvian Amazon!

Indigenous communities are protecting their rainforest home. Learn how they do it.

California Fund

Could Indigenous Communities Save the Amazon?

A peer-reviewed study confirms tech-enabled rainforest protection works: Now let's scale it up.

Project update

A drug problem in Bufeo Cocha

How the indigenous people of Bufeo Cocha ran the local cocaine growers out of town.

Project update

How an indigenous community regrew their economy and their native land

Fernando Duran moved to Buen Jardin de Callaru six years ago. Since then, his rainforest home has been transformed

Project update

Rainforest protection triples in size with more expansion planned

More indigenous communities than ever are using technology to protect their rainforest home.

Tech-enabled Rainforest Protection

2020 review, and the largest win for Panama's indigenous communities in decades

In 2020, indigenous communities protected over 15 million acres of rainforest, and the Naso Tjër Di people won the rights to their ancestral land.

Project update

Scaling up the Tech-enabled Rainforest Protection project

The protected rainforest area that Wren supporters have been funding, has completed almost a year of successful community forest protection, maintaining a 0% deforestation rate since mid-2019

Project update

Despite pandemic, our project shows increasing promise and success

Francisco Hernandez Cayetano, President of the Federation of the Ticuna and Yaguas Communities of the Amazon, discusses the effects of the pandemic.

Tech-enabled Rainforest Protection

Planting Seeds

Over the past two months, the community of Buen Jardin de Callaru has invested the funds contributed by Wren members to begin their tree planting project on degraded land within their community.

Project update

A new reforestation initiative in the Amazon

Although most of the Buen Jardín community is covered by rainforest, there are pockets that have been cleared over the years. Our partner who operates the project, the Rainforest Foundation, is restoring the forest, starting with 70 hectares to be replanted this year

Project update

Fires are raging in the Amazon. How is our project doing in Peru?

Large swathes of the Amazon are burning, and have been for weeks. Some are pointing to Mr. Bolsonaro, the President of Brazil, as responsible after his relaxing of clear-cutting law