I would like to recommend a great nature and wildlife conservation organization to support for mothers day (or anytime) in Rainforest Trust.

The wonderful team at RT work very hard to locate, purchase, protect, and conserve our mother earth’s most imperiled wild creatures and fragile and unique wild places from development and destruction humans.

Some of these places include the Amazon and Indonesian rainforests,  remote parts of the Himalayas and so much more.  Here is a list of their current projects and the many protected projects from all over planet earth.

For the cost of one of those expensive coffee drinks/smoothies you love so much, you can choose to make a real and lasting difference each month, week, or day  to save rare habitats and wildlife from destruction and extinction.  Please consider giving our shared mother earth a gift by supporting Rainforest Trust today!

This is why it is up to us, those who are informed, those who understand, cherish and respect our intricate connections to all life – it is up to us to do everything in our power to stop those greedy, selfish, soulless, individuals, governments, and mega-corporations who do not care at all about nature, wildlife, us, our children, or the children of the future.

At a personal level, we must also be aware of our ecological footprints and we must get creative to offset our carbon impact on our mother earth. We can, relatively easily, install solar panels on our homes and businesses, drive an electric or hybrid vehicle, stop using single-use plastics, reduce, reuse, recycle, repurpose, rethink, resist, refuse, ride bikes, walk more, plant trees, grow, hunt and fish for our own food, eat and buy locally, work for/support companies that take measures to protect the environment, pull your money out of markets/organizations/companies that support extractive/destructive/polluting practices, vote for science literate, forward-thinking decision makers who put the environment first.

We can do all these things and more at home and in our communities.  However,  when it comes to protecting far away habitats and exotic rare wildlife that we may never see in person – that is where we need RT to help us make a difference.

We all have a carbon footprint.

If we live in giant houses, fly frequently, and drive big gas guzzling vehicles long distances – our carbon footprints will be larger therefore our impact on nature will be larger.  Another great service provided by RT is carbon offsetting. By making a donation to RT you can  offset the carbon footprint of your long distance air or vehicle travel so instead of driving and flying all over the place without a care for the massive carbon footprints of those activities, we all can offset our carbon pollution with a donation to RT and in turn, protect habitats, wildlife, and indigenous lands in the process.

I have been supporting RT with donations for the last few years, not only to protect rare wildlife and wild places, but also to offset my carbon footprint from my impacts on our shared planet.

When it comes time to buy my mother a gift on Mother’s Day, or friends and family a gift on any other day, – instead of buying more useless flowers that will only wilt and die, balloons that will float away and become litter, or cheap plastic junk that will soon break and be thrown away, – I choose to buy them rare and important habitat from RT.

You can do the same so please consider visiting Rainforest Trust and do your part to be part of the solution.