This reforestation project is focused on the Tambopata National Reserve, Bahuaja-Sonene National Park, and the adjacent zones to these parks that have a high risk for deforestation and degradation due to unsustainable agricultural practices in and around Puerto Maldonado. Seeking to protect and restore the forest and biodiversity, the project also helps local farmers and their families establish a sustainable agroforestry system through technical assistance and training, providing long-term income for 72 farmers involved.

  • Location: Amazon Rainforest, Peru

  • Start date: May 1, 2019

  • Number of trees planted: 18,500

  • Planted hectares: more than 11 hectares

  • Key impact areas: Biodiversity/habitat
    Social/community impact

The Make the Forest Flourish project promotes the recovery of soil cover by implementing Agroforestry Systems (SAFs) and the recovery of spring areas using species of ecological and economic interest. It supports producers in Tarauacá and Mâncio Lima municipalities, in Acre, and Guajará, in Amazonas state. The initiative generates ecological, social, and economic benefits for more than 30 local communities, helping to reduce pressure on the forest, spring recovery, water quality, and maintaining biodiversity.

Phase I

  • Location: Acre, Brasil
  • Start date: Sep 1, 2021
  • Number of trees planted: 30,000
  • Planted hectares: more than 18 hectares
  • Key impact areas: Biodiversity/habitats • Social/community impact • Forest fire restoration • Soil stability and erosion control • Climate stability • Watershed/riparian restoration
  • Status: completed in Mar 31, 2022
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Phase IV

  • Location: Acre, Brasil
  • Start date: Oct 1, 2023
  • Number of trees planted: 11,542
  • Planted hectares: more than 6 hectares
  • Key impact areas: Biodiversity/habitats • Social/community impact • Soil stability and erosion control • Watershed/riparian restoration
  • Status: shovel ready, expected end date is May 1, 2024
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The project aims to strengthen reforestation activities in the Mantiqueira Mountains region, establishing sustainable and relevant native forest projects and contributing to increasing green infrastructure of extreme environmental importance. It also works to increase carbon sequestration and restore habitats for local biodiversity, riparian forests, and springs to guarantee water security and better rural pastures for the communities. The Mantiqueira Mountains initiative involves the creation of jobs for local people, boosting income generation and their expertise in sustainability.

Phase 1

  • Location: Minas Gerais, Brasil
  • Start date: Dec 1, 2020
  • Number of trees planted: 80,000
  • Planted hectares: more than 47 hectares
  • Key impact areas: Biodiversity/habitats • Soil stability and erosion control • Watershed/riparian restoration
  • Status: completed in Dec 31, 2021
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Phase 2

  • Location: Minas Gerais and São Paulo, Brasil
  • Start date: Oct 1, 2022
  • Number of trees planted: 106,380
  • Planted hectares: more than 63 hectares
  • Key impact areas: Biodiversity/habitats • Soil stability and erosion control • Watershed/riparian restoration • Climate stability
  • Status: planted/reporting, expected end date is Mar 31, 2024

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The Corridors for Life initiative simultaneously addresses climate change, supports local communities, and conserves biodiversity. Carefully designed, it aims to restore large areas to promote connectivity between forest fragments and protected areas, promote the occupation of these areas by the local fauna, and promote change in land-use practices in fragmented rural regions to improve small farmers’ livelihoods. This project consolidates strategies that represent sustainable alternatives for communities of the land reform movement in Brasil, leading to the replication of good practices and policies in income generation and biodiversity conservation.

  • Location: São Paulo, Brasil
  • Start date: Nov 12, 2021
  • Number of trees planted: 90,000
  • Planted hectares: more than 53 hectares
  • Key impact areas: Biodiversity/habitats • Climate stability • Watershed/riparian restoration • Forest fire restoration • Social/community impact • Gender Equality
  • Status: completed in Jun 30, 2022

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The project offers integrated solutions for financing, technical assistance, agricultural operations, and market intelligence to recover degraded areas in small and medium-sized rural properties with high-productivity agroforestry arrangements based on Cocoa. Agroforestry systems have many environmental benefits, such as forest recovery, improvement of ecosystem services, biological recovery, soil fertility, reduction of erosion processes, the potential for creating forest corridors for biodiversity, and the ability to recover microclimates and hydrological processes at all scales. The local producers are directly impacted by job creation and increased income, which reduces the rural exodus and the evasion of young people to the urban areas.

  • Location: Rondônia, Brasil
  • Start date: Dec 1, 2021
  • Number of trees planted: 240,000
  • Planted hectares: more than 240 hectares
  • Key impact areas: Biodiversity/habitats • Climate stability • Social/community impact • Soil stability and erosion control
  • Status: shovel ready, expected end date is Feb 29, 2024
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Courageous Land’s mission is to reverse climate change while creating health and abundance for all life on earth. Considering that the Amazon is the largest tropical rainforest in the world and its unique ecosystem is under threat, this project works in the region to create a paradigm shift through a combination of preserving wild food forests with sustainable wild harvesting and through reforestation via agroforestry systems that create climate-positive jobs, food, and building materials. This project will impact the local community with equity participation and inspire landowners and farmers to implement agroforestry on their lands for more income and climate-change-resilient agricultural systems.

  • Location: Roraima/Rorainópolis, Brasil
  • Start date: May 31, 2024
  • Number of trees planted: 176,978
  • Planted hectares: more than 176 hectares
  • Key impact areas: Climate stability • Social/community impact • Soil stability and erosion control • Forest fire restoration • Gender Equality • Marginalized/Vulnerable communities • Indigenous groups • Youth engagement and education • Watershed/riparian restoration
  • Status: shovel ready, expected end date is Aug 31, 2025
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The project will restore the critically endangered Atlantic Forest biome, a biodiversity hotspot, by promoting forest connectivity in the Central Fluminense Mosaic (CFM) and restoring degraded areas once dominated by cattle ranching. It will be part of a larger ecological corridor forming in the region that is essential for fauna & flora biodiversity and watershed conservation. It also seeks to promote forest growth of native tree species, providing habitat connectivity for endangered species. The project will benefit 40,000 low- to middle-income families in the region, provide access to water, generate direct jobs, and offer education programs at the site to receive groups of children to learn about biodiversity and forest conservation.

  • Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  • Start date: Dec 151, 2022
  • Number of trees planted: 19,600
  • Planted hectares: more than 11 hectares
  • Key impact areas: Biodiversity/habitats • Climate stability • Social/community impact • Soil stability and erosion control • Watershed/riparian restoration
  • Status: planted/reporting, the end date is Dec 15, 2023
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