Amazon Rainforest Day is September 5. Will you stand up to protect the Amazon?

The Amazon contains the single largest tropical rainforest on the planet, spanning more than 1.6 billion acres across 9 countries and covering some 40% of the South American continent. The Amazon is an immensely diverse region that serves key roles both locally and globally.

A healthy Amazon is critical to maintaining balanced ecosystems and vital resources around the planet. Urgent action is needed to ensure conservation efforts protect this forest and its role as a global climate regulator and carbon sink.

A thriving Amazon matters to the people who live there, the countries it encompasses, and the entire world.

Not only does this forest give us up to 20% of the air we breathe, store 25% of the world's water, and stabilizes the Earth's climate, but it is also home to more than 10% of the world's known wildlife species and the ancestral homelands to more than 400 tribes.

Together we can empower people to become champions for our environment, protect more than 9.3 million acres of wild places, and put science and technology to work for conservation.

Now is the time to stand up for urgent action to protect the Amazon Rainforest. Protecting the rainforest's diverse ecosystems and biodiversity is crucial to protecting wildlife, people, and ways of life across the planet.

This international Amazon Rainforest Day, pledge to stand up for urgent action to conserve the Amazon and its irreplaceable biodiversity. Sign today to join our community of conservationists and help us protect the greatest wild forest on Earth!