View from outside the Marrecas Indigenous Reserve

There is a sharp contrast between the land deforested for agro-business (foreground) and the Marrecas Reserve (background) which protects 40,000 acres of primary Atlantic Rainforest.

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Protect 40,000 acres of Atlantic Rainforest.

Brazil Environment

This project will help protect 40,000 acres of Atlantic Rainforest and provide 250 indigenous families with stable incomes in southern Brazil. Cultivation of yerba mate does best in rainforest understory, incentivizing protection of the ecosystem while providing a stable income for our partner communities freeing them from the logging and industrial agriculture that has destroyed the forest. This project jump starts Guayaki's proven model that binds community health to forest protection.