Instituto Terra Atlantic Forest Restoration
Founded in 1998 by photographer Sebastião Salgado and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado on a degraded cattle ranch in Aimorés, Minas Gerais, Instituto Terra has grown its landholding from 700 to 2,400 hectares.
OperatorInstituto Terra
EcosystemAtlantic Forest
Standardnone (NGO restoration programme, not a credit registry)
StatusActive
LocationAimorés, Minas Gerais (Rio Doce basin), Brazil
Overview
Inside the project
Its nursery has produced seven million tree seedlings from more than 350 native species, of which over four million have been planted.
The organisation frames its work at basin scale: the Rio Doce watershed it works within holds some 300,000 springs and water sources that the restoration aims to protect.
2,400 ha
Landholding (from 700 ha)
7,000,000
Seedlings produced
4,000,000+
Trees planted
Objectives
- Restore degraded ranchland to native Atlantic Forest
- Produce and plant native tree seedlings
- Protect the Rio Doce basin's springs and water sources
Approach
- Native-species nursery and replanting on former ranchland, run by Instituto Terra since 1998.
Sources
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- kbs-frb.be ↗https://kbs-frb.be/en/instituto-terra-planting-millions-trees-restore-brazils-atlantic-forest
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