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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.

READ THE FULL ARTICLE

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 Foundation and Scelta Mushrooms have renewed their partnership for the eighth consecutive year! 

Since the beginning of our activities in 2015, Scelta Mushrooms, one of the world’s largest mushroom producers,  has been a loyal partner of the Black Jaguar Foundation. Notably, Jan Klerken, the company’s founder and current Ambassador, planted one of the first trees of the project and also introduced us to many other partners, paving the path of our success.  

Scelta Mushrooms: producing mushrooms with quality and sustainability

For the past 30 years, Scelta Mushrooms has been producing high-quality mushrooms for companies in the food industry worldwide. Sustainability is one of the company’s core values. Scelta aims to make mushroom-based food products that are tastier, healthier, and more sustainable. 

Recently, Scelta developed an innovative line of mushroom-based products, including supplements that boost the immune system, natural alternatives to artificially produced flavor enhancers, and substances rich in vitamin D! 

Learn more about how Scelta Mushrooms is driving innovation in the mushroom industry on their website. 

Black Jaguar Foundation & Scelta Mushrooms

Concern for sustainability is what brought Scelta Mushrooms and the Black Jaguar Foundation together. According to Jan Klerken, “our success would not be possible without Mother Nature, so we treat the land with respect in our processes. We hope that our partnership with Black Jaguar encourages others to join this wonderful initiative.” 

If your company, like Scelta Mushrooms, cares about sustainability on our planet, contact us and join our mission. Together, we are much stronger! 

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.

On October 5 this month, we were hit by the consequence of the climate crisis in the heart of our operation in Santana Do Araguaia. Our brand-new nursery was hit by a STORM with extreme winds and rains, causing severe damage to its structure and buildings.

This event didn’t just affect us; the entire municipality is suffering damages and losses. Our thoughts go out to the people of Santana Do Araguaia.

We worked the past 2 years together with the local community to build our largest and state-of-the-art nursery from scratch…. And, we are not giving up, but we can’t do it alone.

While we ar still assessing the damage, to make the first emergency repairs of the indoor and outdoor nursery and buildings, our emergency-budget is €140.000.

Join us in restoring our nursery today! Your support can make a real difference. Let’s rebuild together!

CLICK HERE TO MAKE YOUR DONATION TODAY!

The month of October marks the beginning of the rainy season in the Araguaia region, and with it, the initial stages of the 2023/2024 planting season. As you may know, ecological restoration is a far more complex process than simply planting trees. It requires careful planning and preparation for everything to go smoothly.

In these early weeks, our field team has started constructing and installing fences, preparing the areas that will be planted in the coming months, and mixing seeds for direct sowing, a technique commonly referred to as “muvuca.” Let’s delve a bit deeper into each of these processes.

Construction and installation of fences

The construction and installation of fences in specific planting areas are essential to protect the seedlings and ensure their proper growth. This is typically required in regions close to pastures to prevent cattle from trampling or grazing on newly germinated seedlings.

Preparation of restoration areas

During this stage, the Black Jaguar field team removes the grass in the planting areas and digs holes for the seedlings. This creates suitable conditions for native species to thrive when they are eventually planted.

Muvuca: mixing seeds for direct sowing

When does the actual planting begin?

During this rainy season, planting seedlings and direct sowing will start in January on our partner rural properties. Until then, we’ll continue to work tirelessly to ensure high-quality ecological restoration in the Araguaia region!

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 are proud to share that Black Jaguar Foundation was selected, amongst 9 other renowned nature organisations, to present our mission at the symposium of ‘Mega Eco Projects’, at the University of Pennsylvania in the USA. Our initiator, Ben Valks, attended the event and had the opportunity to showcase the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor and exchange experiences with various other environmental organizations from around the world.

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.