Contact Name: Fernando Veiga Contact the project owner using: ConPro's Form Emailer Contact Organization: The Nature Conservancy

Data Effective Date: January 01, 2005 Sharing Status: This project may be shared outside of The Nature Conservancy.

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Project Description:
A conservation and reforestation strategy will increase the connectivity of existing forest remnants, increasing its biological viability and the amount of biodiversity it shelters, and restore areas for the maintenance of critical ecosystem services such as water quality and quantity and climate.

The Atlantic Forest of Brazil is one of the most biologically rich regions of the world and provides clean water for approximately 70% of the population of Brazil, or more than 120 million people. The forest cover has been severely degraded in recent decades, largely from the expansion of agriculture, exotic plantations, and ranching, with only 7% of the primary forest remaining.

In recent years, State Governments, international funding agencies, NGOs, and corporations have been taking action to protect the existing forest cover and promote native reforestation. These efforts to date, however, have resulted in only several thousand hectares of reforestation, with no clear model for achieving the millions of hectares needed to restore priority areas of the Atlantic Forest.

The Conservancy is working with key partners and build on existing efforts to dramatically expand reforestation over the next ten years. Our vision for large scale reforestation ("LSR") is as follows:

A broad-based initiative to plant trees in the Atlantic Forest helps to "turn the tide" of environmental degradation and place these forests on a path to recovery, while also creating jobs, protecting critical watersheds, removing carbon from the atmosphere, and building a greater public awareness of the relationship between people and our environment.

Participated in the 2009 Climate Clinic.

Site/Scope Description:
A conservation and reforestation strategy will increase the connectivity of existing forest remnants, increasing its biological viability and the amount of biodiversity it shelters, and restore areas for the maintenance of critical ecosystem services such as water quality and quantity and climate.

The Atlantic Forest of Brazil is one of the most biologically rich regions of the world and provides clean water for approximately 70% of the population of Brazil, or more than 120 million people. The forest cover has been severely degraded in recent decades, largely from the expansion of agriculture, exotic plantations, and ranching, with only 7% of the primary forest remaining.

In recent years, State Governments, international funding agencies, NGOs, and corporations have been taking action to protect the existing forest cover and promote native reforestation. These efforts to date, however, have resulted in only several thousand hectares of reforestation, with no clear model for achieving the millions of hectares needed to restore priority areas of the Atlantic Forest.

The Conservancy is working with key partners and build on existing efforts to dramatically expand reforestation over the next ten years. Our vision for large scale reforestation ("LSR") is as follows:

A broad-based initiative to plant trees in the Atlantic Forest helps to "turn the tide" of environmental degradation and place these forests on a path to recovery, while also creating jobs, protecting critical watersheds, removing carbon from the atmosphere, and building a greater public awareness of the relationship between people and our environment.

The Atlantic Forest of Brazil is one of the most biologically rich regions of the world and provides clean water for approximately 70% of the population of Brazil, or more than 120 million people. The forest cover has been severely degraded in recent decades, largely from the expansion of agriculture, exotic plantations, and ranching, with only 14% of forest remaining.

Project Goal Comment:
That assuring efective conservation of the existent protected areas, creating new ones in the priority areas, promoting conservation in private areas and stablishing conectivity among (restoration) we will be able to increase the Atlantic Forest cover and its resiliance.

Team Info:
Full Team Compliment:
Anita Diederichsen; The Nature Conservancy; Team Member
Fernando Veiga; The Nature Conservancy; Team Member, Leader/Manager
Aurelio Padovezi; The Nature Conservancy; Team Member
Rubens Benini; The Nature Conservancy; Team Member
Luiz Flávio Lima; The Nature Conservancy; Team Member
Claudio Klemz; The Nature Conservancy; Team Member
Claudia Picone; The Nature Conservancy; Team Member
Miguel Calmon; The Nature Conservancy; Team Member
João Guimarães; The Nature Conservancy; Team Member
Milena Ribeiro; The Nature Conservancy; Team Member
Ana Paula Giorgi Camargo; Department of Geography - UCLA; Team Member
Leandro Baumgarten; The Nature Conservancy; Team Member
Gilberto Tiepolo; The Nature Conservancy; Team Member, Leader/Manager

^* For information on the common taxonomy of threats, see http://conservationmeasures.org/CMP/IUCN/.