The Congo Basin is home to Earth's second-largest rainforest – a globally significant ecosystem teeming with biodiversity and a critical pillar of planetary climate stability. The Congo Basin stores carbon equivalent to three years of global emissions, drives rainfall patterns across Africa, and provides livelihoods for 40 million people.
However, this critical landscape faces significant mounting threats: unprecedented deforestation to support agriculture and mining, illegal wildlife trade, and armed conflict. This is further compounded by insecure community land rights, and chronic underfunding for conservation.
Synchronicity Earth’s (SE) Congo Basin Pooled Fund supports cross-border conservation across Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Cameroon by working with local organizations on three interconnected priorities: resisting harmful developments, strengthening community land rights, and restoring ecosystems through regenerative approaches.
LGT Venture Philanthropy partners with Synchronicity Earth on the Congo Basin Programme through core funding and capacity development support to local implementors (referred to as partners).
Our engagement spans two areas:
In 2025
Synchronicity Earth is thrilled to be entering a new collaborative funding partnership with LGT Venture Philanthropy. Our two organisations have many overlapping principles from providing flexible, multi-year funding to working with implementing partners to understand what support is needed to have impact and meet collective objectives.
Learn more about how Synchronicity Earth works in the field