Rainforest destruction is a massive contributor to climate change. It accounts for as many CO2 emissions as the USA - a staggering six billion tonnes each year. Rainforests are made of carbon. When the forest is destroyed, this carbon is released as climate warming CO2.

• Rainforests are critical to global weather systems acting as the world's thermostat.
• The Amazon rainforest alone provides a fifth of the world’s fresh water as well as a fifth of the world’s oxygen.
• Rainforests are home to two-thirds of all living animal and plant species on the planet, with hundreds of millions of species still undiscovered.
• The forests are known as the “world’s pharmacy” because of their wealth of natural medicines and destroying them can destroy the chances of new breakthroughs in treatment.

Please join me in protecting the rain forest and fighting against global warming.
For as little as £70 you can protect a whole acre. This locks in 260 tonnes of global warming CO2 - that's the same as the annual carbon footprints of ten British families.