“Art is a harmony parallel to nature.” > Paul Cézanne The Art for Tropical Rain Forests Foundation was founded by gallery-owner and museum founder Ernst Beyeler to help protect rain forests. With the help of art, it is to generate financial means for a targeted, project-based support of experienced protection-of-the-environment organizations. Selected projects mainly protect tropical forests by purchasing land, forest management, establishing nature reserves and the defence of the natural principles of life and work of the local population. Tropical forests cover approximately 10% of the entire land surface of the earth. They comprise equatorial regions in South America, Africa, and Asia and are the species-richest habitats of the world. Man has affected and shaped tropical forests for millennia. However, though the indigenous people used these tropical forests in a sustainable manner, the people of the industrialized era systematically exploited them. In this manner, large parts (overall more than 4.5imillion km2) were destroyed and utterly devastated. This affected the global climate, above all concerning oxygen regeneration. Today, it has become the task of mankind to save the remainder of these tropical forests and assure the survival of their flora and fauna as well as that of the indigenous peoples and local population.