I have lived in this city for twelve years and it still continues to surprise me.
I had no idea that, tucked away in Great Pulteney Street, was a Bath-based charity called Rainforest Concern, which has helped to protect over 5 million acres of rainforest since it was founded 3 decades ago.
Now it’s to celebrate its 30th anniversary with a reception and talk at the Holburne Museum on 21st March – which just happens to be the United Nations International Day of Forests.
The event is in partnership with the Royal Geographical Society and the talk will be given by Rainforest Concern Trustee and Royal Botanical Gardens Kew Honorary Researcher Oliver Whaley, who has worked for much of his life in Latin America.
Rainforest Concern, which is based in Great Pulteney Street, preserves threatened natural habitats and has a portfolio of wildlife and habitat conservation projects in Latin America, India and Romania, from turtle conservation in Costa Rica to environmental education in Colombia and the protection of spectacled bears and endangered eagles in the Tropical Andes..
The charity offers annual membership and corporate partnerships and has a popular Sponsor an Acre of Rainforest programme. Their Forest Twinning project invites UK landowners to twin their land with the purchase of an equivalent area of rainforest to create ecological corridors connecting protected areas in some of the most biodiverse regions on Earth.
Rainforest Concern’s corporate partners include the Bath-based international landscape architects Grant Associates and leadership consultancy Renewal Associates, which twinned its 12 acre Sirius Woods, planted with the help of Bath schoolchildren 20 years ago, with the purchase of 12 hectares of rainforest to expand Rainforest Concern’s 6,600 acre Neblina Reserve in the heart of the Tropical Andes.
Tickets are £5, but numbers are limited, so please see more information and book here if you want to attend.
