The Araguaia Corridor is both an environmental and a social project. Through ecological restoration in the Amazon and Cerrado, we are combatting deforestation and biodiversity loss, while simultaneously empowering local communities by creating jobs and local opportunities. Black Jaguar Foundation seeks to create a balance between humans and these important biomes. To emphasize the importance of realising the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor we conducted an International Cost-Benefit Impact Study in 2020.
EMPOWERING LOCAL COMMUNITIES
RESSEMEAR – THE ARAGUAIA SEED NETWORK
Ressemear (Araguaia Seed Network) is a Black Jaguar Foundation initiative that aims to include the local communities in the ecological restoration supply chain, providing a new source of income from the standing forest. The project started from the need of the restoration project itself to obtain native seeds with high quality and reducing losses and costs of logistics. Check how we are impacting the local communities in the Araguaia region:
REASONS TO HELP
THE ARAGUAIA CORRIDOR HAS POSITIVE IMPACT ON ALL OF US
TREES PRODUCE FRESH AIR
Much of the world’s oxygen is produced in the Amazon
rainforest and the Cerrado savanna.
TREES FILTER DRINKING WATER
The origins of many of Brazil’s most vital rivers lie within the Cerrado, often referred to as Brazil’s source for water.
THE RAINFOREST PROVIDES MEDICINE
Plants in the Amazon and the Cerrado are also responsible for the production of much modern medication.
NO FOREST, NO RAIN
Rainfall on the whole South America continent, and beyond, is influenced by the vegetation cover of the Amazon and Cerrado.
UNITED NATIONS
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
By planting 1.7 billion native trees the Black Jaguar Foundation is completing one of the largest land restoration projects on earth, and is in support of all the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations and in particular the following 6:
How we contribute to all UN Sustainable Development Goals
THE GREEN CAPITAL STUDY
THE IMPACT OF REFORESTATION
During 2019-2020, an international team of 11 scientists conducted an impact study. Supported by a Global Advisory Board, they calculated the total benefits resulting from the land restoration of the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor, for Brazil and the planet as a whole.
