Rainforests are made of living carbon - more than 260 tonnes are locked away in each acre. Destroying them releases more climate warming CO₂ each year than the entire USA.

Cool earth is a charity that protects endangered rainforest. This combats global warming, protects ecosystems and provides sustainable jobs for local people.

With your money, cool earth secures threatened rainforest. They put it in a local trust, and protect it around the clock to keep the carbon where it belongs. Cool earth employ local people to do the work, help fund community health and education services and make sure the rainforest is worth more standing than cut down.

Cool Earth will be launching a dedicated schools service at the start of the new term in September. But there’s still time before the summer holidays to get your students thinking about climate change, biodiversity, social issues – and show them that they can make a difference in the world - by sponsoring a cool earth project.