Amazon Rainforest in Brazil | Phaelnogueira
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Looking Ahead
High-integrity forests are those that haven’ t yet been significantly damaged by human activity, making them a high priority for biodiversity conservation. Despite the constant onslaught of deforestation, the Amazon is home to many pockets of this type of forest, where the ecosystem is healthy and the wildlife and plant diversity and abundance are robust. These pockets of high-integrity Amazon rainforest are an essential part of our Amazon Strategy— their health helps support the ecological health of the entire rainforest— making them among the most valuable places in the world to protect.
Two exciting new projects will start work soon to safeguard more than 7 million acres throughout the Amazon, including many areas of high-integrity forest.
The first of these projects will safeguard 27 separate sites— for a combined 7.4 million acres— of significant conservation value throughout the Amazon and several neighboring ecosystems. Fully one-third of these sites supports 80 % or more high-integrity forest, making their protection a high priority for our Amazon Strategy. The Brazilian government has already signed a Memorandum of Understanding with our partners— Brazilian Biodiversity Fund and World Wildlife Fund— committing their support to create these new protected areas.
We also recently approved a new project with partner Fundação de Empreendimentos Científicos e Tecnológicos to assess hundreds of land validation requests from Indigenous communities within the Brazilian Amazon. The land validation process requires gathering information about each community and their territory, and is the necessary first step for Indigenous communities seeking legal recognition and tenure of their ancestral lands. By supporting and accelerating the validation process, this project may enable the protection of 20 million acres or more of Indigenous lands throughout the Brazilian Amazon.
Twenty million acres is our goal, but we will not stop there. Together with our partners, we are already developing multiple new projects that would safeguard many more acres throughout the Brazilian Amazon and its neighboring ecosystems. The work is essential and the time is short. These next two years— while the Brazilian government is supportive of conservation— may be our last best chance to save the Amazon rainforest from being lost forever. Every dollar donated to BAF goes to support the work that will make this possible.
With your support, we can save the Amazon.
Together, we can save the Amazon
Since 2023, the Brazilian Amazon Fund has supported eight high-priority projects— including two that will start soon— as part of Rainforest Trust’ s Amazon Strategy to save the Amazon rainforest.
Once protected, these eight projects will safeguard 13,929,737 acres— more than six times Puerto Rico’ s total land area— of valuable rainforest habitat that supports at least 154 threatened species— including 73 marine species— and 12.2 billion trees, which store an estimated 3.3 gigatons of carbon dioxide equivalents, equal to the annual electricity use of more than 694 million homes in the United States.
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