A third of the planet's remaining old-growth forest will be logged in the next decade unless we stop it. This is a petition for a global moratorium — and a demand for the leaders who can sign it.
Protect the primary ✦Protect the primary ✦Protect the primary ✦Protect the primary ✦
The stakes, in numbers.
Old-growth forests store more carbon, host more species, and clean more water than any ecosystem we can replant. Once they're gone, "restoration" is fiction for a century.
01 / Loss
74%
of the world's original old-growth forest is already gone.
02 / Carbon
1.3Gt
of CO₂ released each year from primary forest loss alone.
03 / Species
80%
of terrestrial biodiversity lives in forest ecosystems.
04 / Time
12yrs
left before current trends become biologically irreversible.
The Brief
A forest is not a crop. It is a thousand-year memory.
Great Bear Rainforest · British Columbia
Old-growth forests are the slowest systems on Earth. A single stand of Sitka spruce or Amazonian mahogany takes seven to fifteen human generations to mature. What a chainsaw removes in ninety seconds cannot be reassembled in our lifetimes, or our grandchildren's.
Yet every year, an area the size of Switzerland is felled — not for necessity, but for pulp, palm, pasture, and pellets that are burned in the name of "clean" energy. The accounting is cynical. The loss is permanent.
This campaign asks the thirty governments that control 92% of remaining primary forest to sign a binding moratorium. No new concessions. No offsets that trade living ecosystems for projections on a spreadsheet.
We have the science. We have the satellites. What we need now is political will — and your name next to ours, in numbers that can't be ignored.
Voices from the frontline
Those who stand between.
The trees taught us how to listen. Now we have to teach the world how to hear them before the chainsaws do.
Elena Ramírez
Forest defender, Chocó
We measure what we can count. Old growth refuses to be counted. That is why we keep losing it.
Dr. Amani Okafor
Ecologist, UCT
My grandfather planted nothing. The forest he left me is older than any nation. That is wealth.
Tomás Nakai
Tlingit community leader
Offsets are a paper forest. They do not breathe. They do not hold the soil. They do not make it rain.
Hana Lindqvist
Climate policy lead
now.
The Petition
Sign your name into the record.
Addressed to the UN Forest Council and the thirty forest-nation heads of state. Delivered when we reach one million signatures.
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