Rainforest Alliance

Rainforest Alliance Rainforest Alliance 665 Broadway, Suite 500 New York, NY 10012 United States 2126771900 http://www.rainforestalliance.org

Mission

Our mission is to protect ecosystems and the people and wildlife that live within them by implementing better business practices for biodiversity conservation and sustainability. Companies, cooperatives, and landowners that participate in our programs meet strict standards for protecting the environment, wildlife, workers, and local communities.

Programs

In addition to the sustainable forestry program, the Rainforest Alliance is active in over 50 countries and has conserved over 27 million acres by developing and promoting alternatives to deforestation that include sustainable agriculture and tourism programs, children's education in the United States, communications and journalist training in the Neo-tropics, Adopt-a-Rainforest in Central and South America, small grants for small businesses in Guatemala, and research in the tropical sciences.

Funded Projects on GlobalGiving

Saving Mexico's Forests, People and Wildlife

Small Business Works for Mayan Women

Small Business Works for Mayan Women

Saving Mexico's Forests, People and Wildlife

Personnel Overview

Rebecca Butterfield - TREES Director
Dr. Butterfield has over 20 years experience in forestry and natural resource management. She has developed new models for community forestry to increase sustainable wood supplies in US markets. She lived and worked 10 years in Central America where she conducted ground-breaking research leading to the use of a wider range of native timber species in reforestation programs.

Jose Roman Carrera Alvarado - Mexico and Central America Coordinator
Mr. Carrera has over ten years experience in the fields of forestry and conservation. He has provided pioneering support to the community forestry concesión system in Central America. His areas of technical expertise include forest management and planning; community training; design of community forest procedures and monitoring and evaluation of projects related to sustainable forest management.

C. Juan De Dios Bermúdez Rodríguez - Northern Mexico Coordinator
This forestry management expert has provided consulting services to the private sector and communities in forest management planning, environmental impacts, and forestry project development. Mr. Bermúdez has also served as faculty, teaching wildlife management in the School for Forestry Sciences of the Universidad Juárez and forestry sciences and management at the Universidad Veracruzanan.

Personnel Statistics

Tensie Whelan,
Executive Director
Founded in 1986
Employees: 72
Volunteers: 15