Ana Paula Mendes

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The Araguaia Seed Network has been growing! And now our collective has a visual branding, its own mission, vision, and values, and even a new name: Ressemear – which means reseeding in Portuguese.

Since last year, our team has held meetings with the collectors so that, together, they could discuss and collectively build the project’s mission, vision, and values.

And now we share with you the results of these experiences:

MISSION:

Our mission is to contribute to the ecological restoration of the Amazon and Cerrado through the collection of native seeds, improving the quality of life for current and future human generations and allowing the conservation of the region’s biodiversity and natural resources.

VISION:

Our vision is to be a Seed Network reference in quality and group work, capable of inspiring everyone to act for the conservation and ecological restoration, generate income and opportunities for local seed collectors, and inspire humanity to thrive in balance with nature.

VALUES:

• Responsibility: We are responsible for seed collection activity and biodiversity preservation, recognizing the fundamental role of seeds and their matrices in the cycle of life.
• Fellowship: We put people and communities at the center of our actions, promoting group work as an agent of positive change towards the environment.
• Respect for the environment: Our commitment to sustainability is unshakable, promoting practices that ensure a greener and more prosperous future.
• Commitment: We are a group committed to deliveries, to our colleagues, and to our mission.
• Enthusiasm: We love working with seeds, and always remember that this work will restore our forests.

2024 CALENDAR DELIVERY TO COLLECTORS

And to celebrate so many achievements, we produced a calendar for the year 2024, which includes images of trees, flowers, and fruits of native species from the region.

The calendars were distributed among Reseeding members, who were extremely happy with the result of such a rewarding job. Check out some pictures:

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Amidst another planting season, our field team continues to work intensively to successfully complete growing and planting many trees! We have already finished the areas with direct seeding, and in the coming months, we will finish the planting of the seedlings.

At the moment, we have already finished the areas of direct seeding, and by the end of this month, we are focused on planting seedlings. Meanwhile, we continue to maintain the already restored areas, especially the more recent ones, in previous rainy seasons.

ASSISTED REGENERATION AS AN ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION TECHNIQUE

For March, the assisted regeneration will be conducted. In the last planting season, 30 hectares were restored through this technique. Given the good results obtained, we want to further explore the method and take full advantage of the region’s potential.

Learn more about how natural regeneration is carried out by the Black Jaguar Foundation:

BJF PLANNING FOR THE COMING MONTHS

In the last months of the rainy season, with ecological restoration already completed, it will be time to focus efforts on maintenance and monitoring the areas planted in previous years. And, as expected, start planning for the next planting season!

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On 15 January 2024 we presented our mission to realize the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor, at the Climate Hub in collaboration with GreenUp, supported by the World Economic Forum and the City of Davos.

We are honoured and proud that Prof. Carlos Nobre became our official Ambassador! As one of the most renowned Earth System Scientist, Nobel prize winner and guardian of the Amazon, Carlos Nobre represents the science and the importance beyond our project, and the necessity to take action now.

Our mission of Hope and Action, is backed up by science, our impact study and ambassadors such as Carlos Nobre that advocate the positive social and environmental effects the 2600 km long Araguaia Corridor will create in the region and beyond.

BJF New Ambassador: Carlos Nobre

BJF Presentation at World Economic Forum Climate Hub

Check out the full presentation here.

Not only did we meet a lot of new people and made the first steps in building new long-term partnerships. It was also a great opportunity to connect and re-connect to our existing partners, learn from other NGOs and leaders in the field of restoration and biodiversity and work together with the BJF Team.

We are happy to share some pictures and videos of the event and stay tuned for more updates.

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Welcome to the Black Jaguar Foundation’s Best of the Year Awards! Before you dive into your and our 2024 goals, let’s celebrate our 2023 achievements.

Explore our memorable milestones in 5 categories, plus two special ones! A big thanks to our partners and supporters.
Get ready for an emotional journey—let’s see who takes home the prize!

Read the Reuters article about the challenges of restoring the Amazon.

Check out the satellites images of our Pilot Project

What a year! Thanks to your support we made 2023 a very special year, together! Thanks for being with us.

Wishing you and your family a fantastic 2024. On to many milestones together.

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The holiday season is almost upon us! What if, this year, we traded in our Christmas trees for something everlasting – Araguaia Biodiversity Trees? 

By donating trees, you’re playing a vital role in creating one of the largest biodiversity corridors in the world, right in the heart of Brazil. 

To symbolize the gift of life, we made a very special BJF Christmas Tree Certificate! All you have to do is send an email to info@black-jaguar.org before the 21st of December to ask for your personalized tree certificate and make your donation. 

Send your message to info@black-jaguar.org and receive your Christmas Tree Certificate

Your support means the world to us, and together, we can make this holiday season a little greener and even more meaningful. 

Wishing you a peaceful and eco-friendly holiday season! 

Would you like to join us in realizing one of the longest biodiversity corridors on Earth? Become one of the First 600 to join our mission of hope and action HERE.

We’re a week away from Giving Day! We encourage you to participate in this culture of giving movement. 

Giving Tuesday is an initiative that aims to mobilize organizations and connect people to make impact towards the end of the year. And the Black Jaguar Foundation wants to make this edition the biggest. 

Black Jaguar Foundation & Giving Tuesday: Together for a more sustainable world!

Since you are the one who makes Giving Day happen, we want to ask for your help: be a part of this initiative! You and your company can contribute to the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor in various ways: 

• Donate trees 
• Join the First 600 
• Donate any amount 
• Share our mission with your friends and help expand the BJF Community! 

Learn more about the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor

Black Jaguar, along with farmers and local communities in the Araguaia region, is realizing one of the largest ecological restoration projects on Earth. By recovering degraded areas, we are creating an ecological corridor along the Araguaia River to bring back the biodiversity of the Amazon Rainforest and the Cerrado savanna. 

Our project is ambitious; we aim to plant around 1.7 billion trees in 1 million hectares over the next 20 years. Currently, we have more than 25 partner landowners, and we’ve already planted the first 700,000 trees. 

The initial years were full of learning, and now it’s time to expand our operations. In the next two years, we will complete the first 2 million trees planted. But we can’t do this alone! That’s why we are building an even stronger community of supporters, including companies, organizations, volunteers, and advocates. 

Giving Day is the perfect opportunity to strengthen this community even further. Will you join us? Help promote the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor! 

Would you like to join us in realizing one of the longest biodiversity corridors on Earth? Become one of the First 600 to join our mission of hope and action HERE.

Every ambitious project needs a starting point, and we can now show you the effects of our Ecological Restoration efforts kicked off during the 18/19 planting season with the planting of 20,000 trees. 

In the following seasons, we expanded our field team, forged new rural partnerships, and, five years later, nearly 700,000 trees are growing on about 300 hectares along the Araguaia River, and the results for nature are already visible in satellite images! 

In the images above, you can see the before and after of the areas where we worked in the early planting seasons. A significant difference is already noticeable, and the best part is that this is just the beginning. For the next few years, our goal is even more ambitious: we want to plant the first 2 million trees by 2026. Can you imagine witnessing this transformation on an even larger scale? We can’t wait to show you! 

Step by step, we are bringing back the region’s biodiversity and undertaking one of the planet’s largest ecological restoration projects: the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor. Support this project and help us build a better world for future generations! 

Would you like to join us in realizing one of the longest biodiversity corridors on Earth? Become one of the First 600 to join our mission of hope and action HERE.

Black Jaguar had the honor of hosting our long-time partner, Andrea Dreesmann, founder of TreeLove, in Santana do Araguaia. Along three days of visit, we had an excellent opportunity to present our work and the ever-growing socio-environmental impact our project is making in the region! A big thank you goes out to Andrea Dreesmann and the Treelove Team. 

There were three days of visits to Black Jaguar’s main locations: the restoration areas, the seedling nursery and even seed collection. 

Black Jaguar Foundation Seedling Nursery

On the first day in Santana do Araguaia, Andrea Dreesmann visited the nursery, already filled with seedlings that will be planted early next year. 

At that time, Norivânia Diniz, our seedling production analyst, took the opportunity to explain the seedling production process – and the TreeLove founder got her hands dirty! Check out the images: 

Visit to restoration sites

After the seedling production process, it’s time to see all the seed and seedlings developing in our restoration areas. We took Andrea Dreesmann to one of our partner rural properties to show a restored area from 11 months ago. Our supporter also took the opportunity to plant her own tree. Check it out: 

Collecting seeds with the Araguaia Seed Network

To showcase the impacts that the Araguaia Seeds Network is generating for local populations, we invited Laís D’Isep, seed production analyst responsible for mobilizing communities and conducting training. 

And since we couldn’t miss the opportunity to introduce Andrea to local communities – the true heroes behind the seed collection that makes our ecological restoration possible – we took a small boat to an island in the Araguaia River. There, a seed-collecting couple accompanied us on an expedition in search of native seeds from the region’s flooded areas. 

After this intense immersion in the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor, we were able to show up close our work and the extent of the socio-environmental impact our project is making in the region. 

Follow TreeLove’s initiative and support the Biodiversity Corridor. Let’s build one of the planet’s largest ecological restoration projects together. Click here and contribute. 

Learn more about TreeLove here. 

Would you like to join us in realizing one of the longest biodiversity corridors on Earth? Become one of the First 600 to join our mission of hope and action HERE.

The piece, written by Jake Spring, begins by highlighting that, according to a scientific study, restoring global forests could sequester 22 times as much carbon as the world emits in a year, making the case that trees are a key tool in confronting the climate crisis along with cutting fossil fuels.

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