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The Stand For Trees campaign is committed to protecting the world's most spectacular forest
landscapes and the communities and wildlife that call them home.

Their projects:

1. West & Central Kasigau Wildlife Brazilian Rosewood

Africa: Sanctuary Envira Amazonia
Mai Ndombe 3. Asia-Pacific 5. Latin America
Gola Rainforest Rimba Raya Cordillera Azul
Isangi Rainforest Orangutan Reserve Guatemala
(Returning Soon) (Returning Soon) Conservation Coast
2. East Africa: Southern Cardamom Nii Kaniti
Kariba Wildlife 4. Brazil Pacific Forest
Corridor Amazon Valparaíso Communities

HOW IT WORKS
When you buy a Stand For Trees certificate, you are helping to fight both tropical
deforestation and climate change.
You are helping to save some of the world’s most spectacular forest landscapes.
And you are helping to protect the communities and wildlife that call them home.
How do I know I’m really making a difference?
All of our projects are certified to two industry benchmarks – Verra’s Verified Carbon Standard and
Climate, Community, and Biodiversity Standard. We’re serious about saving forests in the most
legitimate and effective way possible, and our pay-for-performance model and rigorous standards
make sure of this.
If you buy a credit from a Stand For Trees project, you’ll receive a certificate with a unique serial
number verifying your purchase. You can be sure your donation is fighting deforestation from all
angles.
WHY FORESTS MATTER
EXPLAINING DEFORESTATION
Why are we losing forests so quickly?
Because deforestation is often an economic problem: local communities have no other option but to
cut down their forests. It’s a tragedy, because the world’s forests are worth so much more than that.
Stand For Trees lets you – yes, you – help them to change that.
THE SHORT VERSION
Deforestation is an economic problem. Stand For Trees helps to solve it by paying people to keep
trees standing. We use a UN mechanism called REDD+ to put a value on the amount of carbon the
trees store, and everything we do is independently verified before we offer it to you.
If that’s enough for you, you can protect a forest right now, here. But if you’d like to know more
about how deforestation happens and why forests are important, read on below.
WHY DEFORESTATION HAPPENS
Deforestation happens when it’s worth more to convert forest land to other uses than to keep the
forest standing.
The most obvious example is the one you’ve probably already heard of. Economic incentives and
industrial agriculture can cause large-scale deforestation, even against the wishes of local
communities.
But sometimes there is simply no choice.
Communities often cut trees down for charcoal because they have no other source of fuel. Or, they
may only be able to earn money from informal mining, illegal logging, or another activity that
destroys forests.
 People that live near forests are also often farmers. Subsistence farmers grow food crops for daily
life. And small-scale commercial farmers produce commodities for export and trade.
Unfortunately, their lands are often bad for farming. Soils are poor, conditions are harsh, and crops
don’t grow well. This means yields are low. And that means locals can’t grow enough food, earn
enough money to support themselves – or both.

Technology and training could help solve many of these problems. But rural farmers usually don’t
have access to them. And then, because their yields stay low, their only option is to clear more and
more forest so they can farm on a larger area.
Here, deforestation may help to improve the short-term situation – farmers can at least grow enough
food for themselves. But in the long term, it leads to land degradation – meaning farmers need more
land again. That creates a vicious cycle of more and more deforestation and degradation. And to
make matters worse, chopping down forests for short-term benefits means we’re losing everything
else that forests do.
WHAT FORESTS DO
Forests, and especially tropical forests, also provide a lot of value to humans. Among other things,
they:

 Regulate and filter water

 Clean the air

 Moderate water flow

 Improve agricultural conditions like soil quality

 Help mitigate or prevent natural disasters like erosion and landslides

These are called ecosystem services. Some of them, like flood control or supporting agriculture,
may even be worth actual money. (Here’s an example: crops bring in income. If the ecosystem is
helping farmers to grow more crops, that’s worth money, too.)
But all of these services rely on the ecosystem functioning properly. And that means it needs to stay
intact. Replanting a forest after it’s gone won’t work.
Why is that? New forests, although valuable in their own way, take decades to become this rich and
this complex. There are a variety of reasons for this. Biodiversity levels are much lower,
many animals don’t find them ideal habitat, they don’t provide as many services, they aren’t as
resilient, and so on.
So the only way to make sure the planet’s ecosystems survive in the future is to save them now.
Because once they’re gone, they aren’t coming back.
WHY FORESTS MATTER
BIODIVERSITY & ECOSYSTEMS
What do Asian rainforests and African wildlife corridors have in common? They’re incredibly rich
in biodiversity.
When you support Stand For Trees, you are helping to protect some of the world’s richest
ecosystems.
KEEPING ECOSYSTEMS HEALTHY
Tropical forests are some of the most diverse ecosystems on earth. They are home to millions of
well-known species, and millions more that are still undiscovered. There are flowers, plants,
grasses, birds, insects, and fish. There are even soil microbes! And of course, there are also
endangered species and iconic wildlife.
We love our orangutans, lions, and jaguars, and they make the most spectacular photos. But they
also depend on everything else, from worms and insects that make the soil richer, to trees that
provide shade, food, and territory.
That’s biodiversity. And it’s the foundation of every ecosystem.
WHY IS BIODIVERSITY SO IMPORTANT?
Ecosystems are amazingly complex. Soils, plants, and trees create habitat and food for birds and
animals. Birds and animals pay it back by supporting the trees, plants, and soils.
How does this work? Just a few examples: soil microbes improve conditions for plant growth.
Animals eat plants and birds. Birds eat small animals, use trees for shelter, and spread trees’ seeds.
And so on. The important thing is that each species has a role to play in keeping the system rolling.
Failsafes are a second level of biodiversity. What are these? Basically, if something goes wrong
with one member of the team, other members can pick up the slack. It’s the same reason business
diversify into many different markets and products. For an ecosystem, it means having multiple
species that take on similar jobs. Or, as they say, it’s wise not to put all your eggs in one basket.
There’s also a third level: genetic diversity, which comes from having a large population. A species
can better adapt to changing conditions when it has enough variation in the gene pool.
RECAP: WHAT ECOSYSTEMS NEED
SPECIES
Many different types of species, each of which do something different, to make sure the ecosystem
has everything it needs to keep functioning

VARIETY
Multiple species that do similar things, just in case something happens to one of them

NUMBERS
Large populations of each species, to make sure the species themselves remain viable

WHAT BIODIVERSITY REALLY IS

The more biodiversity, the more resilience. That means the ecosystem is stronger, functions better,
and adapts better to changes, even if they’re unexpected or dramatic.
That’s why an ecosystem that’s losing biodiversity only declines slowly at first. But when it loses
too much, it hits a tipping point and falls off a cliff.
The more biodiversity, the stronger the ecosystem, the better it functions, and the better it can
adapt to changes.
Why does this matter? Well, for one, the endangered species that we love so much are often at the
top of the food chain. That means they depend on everything beneath them.
For another, all those other species – large and small – help to keep forests stable. Healthy forests
store carbon, host animals, and support communities.
And last but not least, diverse forests do everything better. More biodiversity improves soil carbon
storage. And rich forests store twice as much carbon as plantations with only one species.
So we have to keep our tropical forests, their priceless ecosystems, and their incredible biodiversity
intact. And that’s what Stand For Trees projects do.
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WHY FORESTS MATTER
CLIMATE CHANGE
Tropical forests are beautiful, rich, and diverse… and store millions of tons of carbon. That means
we can’t stop climate change without saving tropical forests.
Read on below to find out why.
HOW FORESTS STOP CLIMATE CHANGE, AND KEEP THE PLANET COOL
Did you know that worldwide, forests store more carbon than the atmosphere?
That’s right. And this incredible capacity is not just because trees store carbon in their trunks,
leaves, and roots. It’s because a forest is far more than just a bunch of trees: it’s wildlife, plants,
insects, other living things, and even dead trees and animals.
All of these work together to enrich the soil and the ecosystem. Together, they make the forest
much more than the sum of its parts. That’s why forest soils often store as much carbon as the trees
themselves!
And that’s not all. Research has shown that carbon storage is much lower in managed forests, or in
plantations, compared to natural forests. But at least a managed forest or a plantation still has trees
standing! Imagine what would happen without it.
Unfortunately, that’s exactly where we’re headed.
THE DIRE STATE OF DEFORESTATION
Deforestation emits 3 billion tonnes of carbon a year on average – more than all cars
and trucks on the planet combined. Over the last two years, we’ve been losing 40
football fields of tropical forests every minute .
But this means that if we can stop tropical deforestation, we can stop a lot of these emissions. It’s
especially important right now, because we’re not doing nearly enough to stop climate change –
despite the Paris Agreement, we have made very little progress in cutting emissions. Instead, we’re
likely to miss our targets.
To make matters worse, not doing enough now means that we’ll have to take much more drastic
action later. But we could also go past a point of no return. At that point, the planet’s natural
cooling systems will stop working completely, and climate change would be too drastic to stop.
So, not only is it harder to hit our targets the later we start, but the longer we wait, the worse the
impacts will be. And we’ll be much less likely to be successful. Some estimates even say we only
have ~6 years left at current emissions before it will be impossible to keep warming beneath 1.5oC.
TROPICAL FORESTS: A SAFETY NET FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
Tropical forests can help to buy us the time we need. Ending deforestation could meet up to one-
third of the short-term needs of the Paris Agreement. Because it would make a big difference very
quickly, it would lower the entire world’s emissions pathway. And that gives us more room to adapt
to changes as they come.
That’s why we like to call tropical forests a safety net for the climate.
And that’s why we created Stand For Trees.
As regular people, we often feel powerless waiting for policymakers and corporations to wake up.
Even when they do, they move far too slowly: national and international programs to address
deforestation have been in development for years. Meanwhile, we keep losing forests.
But with Stand For Trees, you don’t have to wait anymore. Our member projects each protect a
threatened forest in an incredibly diverse area of the world. Because of the projects, these forests –
and the carbon they contain – can protect the climate, their inhabitants, and future generations.
With Stand For Trees, you don’t have to wait anymore.
When you buy a Stand For Trees certificate, you directly support their work. And with Stand For
Trees, you are not donating to a campaign – which may or may not be successful – or waiting for
policy changes.
That’s because we use a verification-based model which links your purchase to a physical impact.
Each certificate represents carbon dioxide prevented from entering the atmosphere, a forest
protected, habitat for endangered species, and local livelihoods saved.
The world is warming. We need to act now, and we need to reduce emissions now. Saving forests is
amongst the quickest and most effective ways of doing that. So if you’re asking yourself how you
can help to stop either climate change or deforestation – or both – then Stand For Trees makes it
easy, effective, and real. Help us save our forests now.
WHY FORESTS MATTER
PEOPLE & LIVELIHOODS
Jobs. Clean water. Reducing poverty. Sustainable incomes. Fuel and shelter. Here are just a few of
the many ways that Stand For Trees projects give communities a meaningful alternative to
deforestation.
Forests in the developing world are critical to the lives of the people that call them home.
For many, losing forests means losing a vital resource for their daily lives. For others, losing forests
impacts the health and safety of their homes. Even if they are able to temporarily improve their lives
by clearing forests, in the long term they end up worse off.
That’s where Stand For Trees comes in.
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND ALTERNATIVE LIVELIHOODS
Many of our projects employ people in a variety of roles. These could be making eco-friendly
clothing; patrolling the forest; growing small-scale crops; or working in wildlife centres. Most
projects also pay a part of their carbon income to people who live in or near the project area. (That
carbon income comes from the certificates you buy from us.)
Projects also might use that income to increase funding for local NGOs. These NGOs then use that
money to create or expand social development programs, to partner with government agencies, or to
increase other operations. Some of them provide training and supplies to farmers to help them
improve crop yields. Once that happens, farmers can harvest the same amount from less land and
avoid having to convert forest to farmland.
Then there is institutional support, like helping to set up eco-tourism businesses. Or there are
farming cooperatives, which help members get better prices for their products.
All of this helps improve forest communities’ lives. It reduces the worry of people not knowing
how much they will earn. It means that projects support many more people than just the jobs they
hire for. And that’s how it creates sustainable alternatives to deforestation.
EDUCATION AND HEALTH CARE
Education in rural communities is often in short supply, with a shortage of teachers and resources.
Projects help to fix this in many ways. Some build schools and classrooms, hire teachers, buy
books, expand access to education – or all of the above – themselves. In others, locals use the
money they are paid for keeping their forests standing.
Projects also improve access to clean water. This could be by helping households directly or by
improving infrastructure around the community. Of course, this also helps to improve schooling
results. When families and children don’t have to spend hours every day fetching water, there’s
more time for school.
As for health care, projects have built clinics and hired nurses and medical workers. By doing this,
they’ve brought care to areas which previously had barely any services – or were not served at all.
REDUCING POVERTY AND SAVING CULTURES
Many of our forests have great spiritual and cultural significance for indigenous groups. Saving the
forests helps protect these groups’ livelihoods, culture, and traditions.
The rural poor also rely much more heavily on forests for day to day life than the urban poor. They
use plants and trees for food, medicines, fuelwood, building materials, and much more. This helps
them cope with job losses, food shortages, and other challenges. And in some cases, the forests even
help to protect against disasters like landslides, floods, or water shortages.
So, without the forests, locals would have no other way to meet their daily needs. And they would
be much worse off in case of an emergency.
That’s why communities become extra vulnerable to poverty, hunger, sickness, and instability when
they lose the forests they rely on so deeply.
And that’s why saving forests is so important for poverty alleviation and livelihoods.
WILDLIFE
Habitat loss is the biggest threat to wildlife around the world.
Stand For Trees protects the forests that these animals call home.
Supporting us means you are helping to save some of the world’s most threatened species from
extinction.
WHAT WE DO FOR WILDLIFE
Why is it that Stand For Trees projects are so valuable to wildlife?
Many species need large areas of pristine forest to thrive. Others migrate through long land
corridors every year. Still others are always living in fear of poaching and illegal hunting.
You may notice a theme: habitat loss. That’s probably the biggest threat to most wildlife, other than
hunting. And animals might even be safer from hunting if they had enough forest to hide in.
REDD+ AND WILDLIFE
Enter REDD+. By definition, it protects large areas of forest – that’s how it prevents climate
change. And that means it is perfectly suited to also saving wildlife. Our largest project, Cordillera
 Azul National Park in Peru, is 1.5 million hectares! All together, Stand For Trees projects protect a
land area that is larger than many countries.
Because they’re so large, our projects provide the habitat animals need. And that’s not all: just like
for climate change, they also have to show that they are helping wildlife. This could mean a few
different things, like:

 monitoring wildlife numbers

 patrolling to make sure there is no illegal logging or hunting.

 running rescue centre

 proving that wildlife populations are stable or improving

In other words, they have to prove that they are helping wildlife thrive.
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West & Central Africa

o Mai Ndombe

o Gola Rainforest

o Isangi Rainforest (Returning Soon)

 East Africa

o Kariba Wildlife Corridor

o Kasigau Wildlife Sanctuary

 Asia-Pacific

o Rimba Raya Orangutan Reserve (Returning Soon)

o Southern Cardamom

 Brazil

o Amazon Valparaíso

o Brazilian Rosewood

o Envira Amazonia

 Latin America
o Cordillera Azul

o Guatemala Conservation Coast

o Nii Kaniti

o Pacific Forest Communities

o Tambopata Biodiversity Reserve