Protect biodiverse Atlantic Forest in Brazil’s Serra Bonita Mountain Range

Expand Protection for the Serra Bonita Mountains

Brazil Protect biodiverse Atlantic Forest in Brazil’s Serra Bonita Mountain Range FUNDRAISING Expand Protection for the Serra Bonita Mountains Our conservation partners Instituto

Location: Serra Bonita
Partner: Instituto Uiraçu / Rainforest Trust
Acres: 750
Acres conserved by: Purchase
Carbon storage: 99,467 mT*

Species

Banded Cotinga (CR), Buff-headed Capuchin (CR), Natterer’s Longwing (CR), Buff-throated Purpletuft (EN), Golden-headed Lion Tamarin (EN)

Conservation and restoration support is presented as its own contribution. It is not automatically a carbon credit, and it does not make a venue or event carbon-free.

What the project does.

Our conservation partners Instituto Uiraçu, have been working to conserve the natural integrity of the Serra Bonita Mountain Range through the creation of the 8,468- acre Serra Bonita Reserve Complex (SBRC). And now, as pressures continue to disrupt the natural land, our two organizations are teaming up again to expand the reserve by 750 acres of montane forest, hills and valleys, further bolstering protection to the region. If this land is not secured immediately, it is likely to be sold for continued agricultural development.

Despite it’s critical importance to Brazil’s biodiversity, years of logging and agricultural expansion have degraded the forest of the Serra Bonita mountains significantly. The remaining habitat still faces grave danger from deforestation for further land conversion, and primate and bird species are also frequently poached for the pet trade threatening them with extinction.

Banded Cotinga (CR), Buff-headed Capuchin (CR), Natterer’s Longwing (CR), Buff-throated Purpletuft (EN), Golden-headed Lion Tamarin (EN)

(CR)=Critically Endangered; (EN)=Endangered

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