Save the Brazilian Amazon

Saving the Brazilian Amazon

Conservation’s Greatest Challenge and Opportunity: The Brazilian Amazon FUNDRAISING Once an impenetrable fortress of biodiversity, The Brazilian Rainforest now faces threat from illegal mining, logging, and farming. The Amazon is the world’s largest and most important tropical rainforest, originally spanning 1.7 billion acres, nearly the size of the continental U.S. […]

Location: Amazonas and Pará, Brazil
Acres: 2,262,878
Acres conserved by: Designation
Carbon storage: 648,507,695 mT*

Partner

Instituto Internacional de Educação do Brasil

Species

Wattled Curassow (EN), Ariel Toucan (EN), Eastern Red-necked Araçari (EN), Olive-winged Trumpeter (EN), Black Rail (EN), Giant Otter (EN), Black-faced Black Spider Monkey (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.

Conservation’s Greatest Challenge and Opportunity: The Brazilian Amazon

The Amazon is the world’s largest and most important tropical rainforest, originally spanning 1.7 billion acres, nearly the size of the continental U.S. It is a refuge for a third of Earth’s terrestrial species and stores 100 billion metric tons of CO 2 equivalents, more than four times the combined annual emissions of the top 10 CO 2 emitting nations. The Amazon is also the ancestral territory and current home to many of the world’s Indigenous Peoples.

The Brazilian Amazon is under imminent threat from profit-seeking outside interests that are destroying a vital ecosystem that is critical to maintaining the health of all life on Earth. Rare and endemic species are rapidly losing forests necessary for their survival. Likewise, traditional communities living on undesignated, unprotected public lands struggle against growing pressures.

Wattled Curassow (EN), Ariel Toucan (EN), Eastern Red-necked Araçari (EN), Olive-winged Trumpeter (EN), Black Rail (EN), Giant Otter (EN), Black-faced Black Spider Monkey (EN)

Photography