Jussara palm
EndangeredEuterpe edulis
Its fruit feeds more than 50 bird species. Overharvesting made it endangered across its range.
Mata Atlantica, Brazil
The Atlantic Forest
One of the most endangered rainforests on earth. Under 12 percent remains.
- Coordinates
- -22.50, -42.30
- Native species planted
- 5
- Endangered species supported
- 3
- Families per 100 trees
- 1.4
The Mata Atlantica once ran along the whole Brazilian coast. Today less than 12 percent of it is left, in fragments surrounded by cities and farmland. Our members plant the corridors that connect those fragments back together, so species that were cut off can move again.
The change
What this land looks like before and after
Today
Year 20How it grows
From one seedling to a working forest
Year 1
Seeds collected nearby, raised by local nurseries.
Year 3
Young corridor starts to link the fragments.
Year 20
Wildlife moves between forests again.
Native species
The trees your membership plants here
Seeds are collected nearby and raised in local nurseries, so what grows back belongs to this place.
Pau-brasil
EndangeredPaubrasilia echinata
The tree that gave Brazil its name, and one of the rarest in the forest it comes from.
Jequitiba rosa
EndangeredCariniana legalis
The giant of the Atlantic Forest. Some survivors are over a thousand years old.
Embauba
Cecropia glaziovii
A pioneer that grows fast and shelters the slower species planted beneath it.
Guapuruvu
Schizolobium parahyba
Reaches for the light quickly, closing the canopy over bare ground in a few seasons.
Restore The Atlantic Forest with us
Join the cooperative and your trees are planted here. Each cluster of five trees and shrubs gets its own coordinates.
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