By Ricardo Salles Hermanny | Project Leader
Dear friends and colleagues
Our commitment to environmental safety, climate and food have harvested fruits !! Fruits and seedlings !! The juçara palm seedlings are growing to be transplanted.
The Global Giving, the IDDEIA Institute and the Programa Amável - Sustainable Atlantic Forest and all partners and employees are saneando the countryside and producing seedlings to reforest one of the most vulnerable ecosystems in the world, a global hot spot in need of preservation.
The role of forests in climate stabilization must also be recognized, as emissions from forest destruction represent approximately 15% of total emissions of greenhouse gases. The ten most threatened forest hotspots in the world store over 25 gigatons of carbon, helping to mitigate the effects of climate change.
The Atlantic Forest stretches across the Brazilian Atlantic coast, stretching for parts of Paraguay, Argentina and Uruguay, also including oceanic islands and the Fernando de Noronha archipelago.
The Atlantic Forest is home to 20,000 species of plants, 40% of which are endemic. Yet less than 10% remains standing forest. More than two dozen species of endangered vertebrates - listed in the category "Critically Endangered" - are struggling to survive in the region, including lions golden tamarins and six bird species that inhabit a small strip of forest in the Northeast.
Starting with the cycle of cane sugar, followed by coffee plantations, the region has been deforested for hundreds of years. Now, the Atlantic Forest is facing pressure due to increasing urbanization and industrialization of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo. More than 100 million people, and the textile industry, agriculture, cattle ranching and logging in the region depend on the fresh water supply of this forest fragment.
Our obligations in this dispute are huge and we are already helping the Atlantic forest to regenerate, both for reforestation as the rural sanitation and conservation of their aquifers springs.
We always count with you, thank you !
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