World Rainforest Day
Next: June 22, 2027
For the forests that make the rain.
The story
Where it comes from
World Rainforest Day was created by Rainforest Partnership, a non-profit in Austin, Texas, that Niyanta Spelman founded in 2007 to help rainforest communities protect the forests they live in. The first World Rainforest Day was held on 22 June 2017. Its aim is to celebrate rainforests, foster a shared sense of responsibility for them and spark action to protect them. Rainforests cover only about 6% of the Earth's surface, yet around half of all the species that live on land are found in them.
How it's celebrated
Rainforest Partnership convenes organisations, activists and ordinary people around the day, and in recent years has held an online summit that drew registrants from 77 countries in 2023. People share what they love about rainforests with #WorldRainforestDay. You can mark it by learning where everyday things such as coffee, cacao and spices first came from, or by walking in a forest near home.
Did you know
- The Amazon alone is home to more than 30 million people, including some 350 Indigenous and ethnic groups.
- Papua New Guinea, a rainforest country of about 10 million people, has more than 800 languages.
- Singapore's Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, set up in 1883 as the island's first forest reserve, protects its largest surviving primary rainforest.
Coming up next
- Olympic Day · June 23, 2027
- International Women in Engineering Day · June 23, 2027
- International Day of Women in Diplomacy · June 24, 2027
- Day of the Seafarer · June 25, 2027
- The First Barcode Scan · June 26, 2027
- International Day of Deafblindness · June 27, 2027