About the NGO Forest Coalition
We are a coalition of UK NGOs working on forests in the context of climate change, biodiversity, development and human rights. We work together and alongside others including civil society organisations, governments and the private sector, to push for strong policies, actions, and funding to address deforestation and the associated human rights abuses connected with it.
The United Kingdom has long been a world leader in the fight against the destruction of forests and biodiversity loss. UK leadership at COP26 in Glasgow saw more than a hundred nations sign the Glasgow Leaders Declaration on Forests, promising to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030.
The national and global importance of maintaining this leadership role has never been greater.
Cool Earth
Cool Earth is a climate organisation that works with people who live in the rainforest. Since 2008, it has been delivering resources with no strings attached, in the form of cash and data, to strengthen the resilience of Indigenous and local communities against drivers of deforestation.
Earthsight
Earthsight uses in-depth investigations to expose environmental and social crime, injustice and the links to global consumption.
The global trade in timber and agri-commodities is destroying the world’s forests and leaving communities at the mercy of big business. Our deep-dive investigations expose these injustices and call out the rogue actors linked to environmental destruction.
Environmental Investigation Agency
The Environmental Investigation Agency investigates and campaigns against environmental crime and abuse. Our work on forests aims to reduce global deforestation by advocating improved governance and trade laws, revealing the negative impacts of cash crops such as palm oil and exposing key criminal players in the transnational illegal trade in stolen timber.
Fern
Fern is dedicated to protecting forests and the rights of people who depend on them. We identify threats facing the world’s forests, and work with affected peoples, social and environmental organisations and policy makers to devise and deliver solutions where Europe can make a difference.
Friends of the Earth
Friends of the Earth is a leading environmental organisation working to create a sustainable future. We fight for climate justice through grassroots campaigns and legal action.
Our work holds businesses to account for the damage they cause to the planet and the associated human rights abuses.
Global Canopy
Global Canopy targets the market forces destroying nature. Our primary focus is on deforestation. We provide innovative open-access data, metrics and insights to leading companies, financial institutions, governments and campaigning organisations worldwide, to help them make better decisions about nature, forests and people.
Global Witness
The Global Witness goal is a more sustainable, just and equal planet. We want forests and biodiversity to thrive, fossil fuels to stay in the ground and corporations to prioritise the interests of people and the planet. On forests we are campaigning to end the flow of money to reckless businesses – particularly damaging agribusinesses – enabling this deforestation.
Mighty Earth
Mighty Earth is a global advocacy organization working to defend a living planet. Our goal is to protect half of Earth for Nature and secure a climate that allows life to flourish. Our team has achieved transformative change by persuading leading industries to dramatically reduce deforestation and climate pollution throughout their global supply chains in palm oil, rubber, cocoa, and animal feed, while improving livelihoods for Indigenous and local communities across the tropics.
Rainforest Foundation UK
Rainforest Foundation UK is committed to both human rights and environmental protection when it comes to tackling deforestation. Locally, its supports Indigenous Peoples and other forest communities to secure land rights, challenge destructive industries, manage their forests and protect their environment. Globally, it campaigns to influence national and international laws and policies that protect rainforests and their inhabitants.
WWF
WWF tackles the underlying causes that are driving the nature decline, and we’re finding solutions so future generations have a world with thriving habitats and wildlife. We work to tackle forest loss and damage because forests are vital for people and wildlife – we need them and they need us to act.
NGO Forest Coalition 