In the 1980s, Threshold helped birth a global awareness of the need to protect and safeguard the world’s rapidly diminishing tropical forests. Threshold’s Tropical Forest Project aided the creation of tropical forest coalitions. Threshold also helped raise early funding for these grassroots organizations. The coalitions brought together local protection efforts, and teamed up with national and international groups trying to accomplish the same goals of cultural conservation and tropical forest protection. Currently, Threshold calls for raising consciousness by integrating spirituality and ecology. It also supports spreading the realization (and practice) that humans require solitude in pristine natural environments for contemplation and reflection, healing and spiritual renewal.