What causes global warming?
People are burning oil and gas, as well as burning forests. These activities release the greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and cause global warming.

How can we stop global warming?
We can help reduce greenhouse gases by 1) using less electricity and gas, 2) encouraging the use of renewable energy such as solar and wind, and 3) halting the burning of forests, especially tropical forests.

When forests are burned, they release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. This causes about 20% of the pollution each year. Tropical forests are especially important because they contain valuable biodiversity. You can reduce the burning of tropical forests by buying Living Forest Carbon Offsets.

The average person in the US is responsible for 21 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year. We invite you to "offset" your climate impact by using our Carbon Emissions Calculator.

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Where does the money go?
Your contribution goes directly to purchase and protect highly biodiverse Andean rainforests. For each dollar that you contribute, 85 cents goes toward buying the rainforest land, and 15 cents goes toward a fund to protect these forests. None of your money goes to administration and overhead because that's covered by Nature & Culture International as part of its core budget.

How do we protect the rainforest reserve?
Nature & Culture International helps rainforest communities with education and sustainable activities. Most of these people realize that it is in their own interest to protect the rainforest. They just need a little help from us.

Over the last 12 years the Nature & Culture International has grown to a local staff of more than 70 people, from the tropical communities themselves, working in southern Ecuador and northern Peru. Nature & Culture International is a public non-profit (501 c3) US organization and you contributions are fully tax deductible.