If there's one thing that the pandemic has taught us, it's how interdependent we all are, and how what happens in one place can affect others, thousands of miles away. Take rainforests. Home to half of the biodiversity on earth, they store carbon, produce oxygen and play a crucial role in regulating the water cycle and stabilizing weather patterns over huge areas. Global warming demands that we take urgent action to protect and restore the ecosystems on which all our lives depend, starting now.

Children in our remote rural area live in one of the world's top biodiversity hotspots, yet their level of understanding and appreciation for the forests is very low. Traditionally, forests are considered barriers to progress, trees are cut and animals eaten or simply killed because they are "dangerous." If we are to save the last great forests, we must focus on the younger generation, helping them to understand their place in the web of life and learn to love and value the forest ecosystem.

Across the world millions of people rely on medicinal plants for their primary health needs, and scientists agree that one in four "modern" medicines derive from rainforest plants. Yet rainforest destruction and degradation continue apace, and increasing numbers of species become extinct every year. Iracambi's Forest Therapies program seeks to promote the conservation of medicinal plants native to Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest, and rescue, document and share traditional knowledge about their uses