By Manon Koningstein | Chief Marketing & Communications Officer
Did you know that Brazil has a law, The Brazilian Forest Code, that requires that some landowners have 20% of their lands covered by forests. Nowadays, 21 million hectares officially fall under this law, and if they were actually all restored, an estimated 9 gigatons of CO2 would be sequestered from the atmosphere. This equals the total emissions from China over the entire last year!
The thought behind this law is that: even though riverbeds, freshwater springs and in general, ecologically sensitive areas are located within someone´s private land and this person is ´allowed´ to use it, the state considers them property of the state and of the society and therefore this land area deserves to be protected or restored!
Our restoration projects in Brazil are working to tie these individual pieces of land together, and this way create ´forest corridors', which will make it easier for wildlife to roam around.
Read more about the Brazilian Forest Code in this blog
And last but not least: thanks for your support!
By Maurah Van Impe | Supporitng our sponsors and donors
By Maurah Van Impe | Supporting WeForest's Donors and Sponsors
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