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Restore the Amazon and Cerrado savanna in Brazil by planting native trees in collaboration with local farmers to realize the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor and bring back biodiversity.
Donate a tree and contribute directly to the Black Jaguar Foundation’s mission of planting 1.7 billion native trees to realise the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor. During this project we are actively engaging the community, basing our restoration process on scientific research, and are ensuring maintenance and care throughout planting stages.
At the Black Jaguar Foundation (BJF), we offer a tangible solution for the degradation of two of our most precious ecosystems: the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado Savanna in Brazil. Our objective is to plant over 1.7 billion native trees to help realize the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor together with the local community. The project needs a huge, combined effort, and our global partners and local farmers are instrumental to its success.
The Araguaia Corridor will be built based on the Brazilian Forest Code, which states that around 20 to 80% of every rural private property in Brazil should be preserved for native vegetation. The BJF partners with landowners to reforest their degraded areas, covering the total expenses of the restoration, bi-yearly maintenance for the first three years, and monitoring for 3, 10- and 20-year reviews.
On one hand, this project is ambitious, on the other it’s feasible due to the professional and strategic way the BJF approaches restoration, always relying on the support of the most prestigious international and local technical partners to complete this project.
The biodiversity planning takes place between March 2022 and January 2023 (ahead and throughout the planting season). Our expert forest engineers evaluate the right combination of native trees to be planted and select the required methods of restoration, based on the features of the land and the native vegetation that would have inhabited it. We strive to emulate the natural ecosystem as much as possible and create long-lasting forests, for which this stage is vital.
Join us on our mission to reforest the Araguaia Corridor and donate a tree today!
Deforestation due to agriculture, logging, forest fires and other practises. This results in degrading ecosystems, which cause draughts and potentially the dieback of the Amazon & Cerrado. Currenlty farmers are seen as the main drivers, BJF works to make landowners, i.e. farmers the heroes again.
Planting millions of native trees together with the farmers, starting in the heart of the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor. Impacting positively both our necessary ecosystems as well as livelihoods of thousands of people, by creating local jobs. We are currently planting our first million native trees and building our third, but first large-scale nursery, with a capacity of 500,000 seedlings per year. A biodiversity corridor is a strip of reforested land that (re)connects previously fragmented portions of natural habitat. It helps to counter the negative effects of deforestation and to recover degraded areas. Newly reforested areas connect with national parks and indigenous reservations, together creating a mosaic of nature reserves.
The Black Jaguar Foundation spent over 10 years meticulously planning and preparing our bold project with our local partners to get proof of concept and develop a plan for tree growth and restoration. After extensive research, community building, and two successful planting seasons, we began to scale up in 2021. This year we are applying all we have learnt so far to the planting of our first million native trees and restoring 600 hectares of degraded land.
Restore the Amazon and Cerrado savanna in Brazil by planting native trees in collaboration with local farmers to realize the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor and bring back biodiversity.
Donate a tree and contribute directly to the Black Jaguar Foundation’s mission of planting 1.7 billion native trees to realise the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor. During this project we are actively engaging the community, basing our restoration process on scientific research, and are ensuring maintenance and care throughout planting stages.
Download this impact report for full details
Detailed map and GPS location
Imagery of your item
Video about the completed project
Drone footage of the project
At the Black Jaguar Foundation (BJF), we offer a tangible solution for the degradation of two of our most precious ecosystems: the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado Savanna in Brazil. Our objective is to plant over 1.7 billion native trees to help realize the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor together with the local community. The project needs a huge, combined effort, and our global partners and local farmers are instrumental to its success.
The Araguaia Corridor will be built based on the Brazilian Forest Code, which states that around 20 to 80% of every rural private property in Brazil should be preserved for native vegetation. The BJF partners with landowners to reforest their degraded areas, covering the total expenses of the restoration, bi-yearly maintenance for the first three years, and monitoring for 3, 10- and 20-year reviews.
On one hand, this project is ambitious, on the other it’s feasible due to the professional and strategic way the BJF approaches restoration, always relying on the support of the most prestigious international and local technical partners to complete this project.
The biodiversity planning takes place between March 2022 and January 2023 (ahead and throughout the planting season). Our expert forest engineers evaluate the right combination of native trees to be planted and select the required methods of restoration, based on the features of the land and the native vegetation that would have inhabited it. We strive to emulate the natural ecosystem as much as possible and create long-lasting forests, for which this stage is vital.
Join us on our mission to reforest the Araguaia Corridor and donate a tree today!
Deforestation due to agriculture, logging, forest fires and other practises. This results in degrading ecosystems, which cause draughts and potentially the dieback of the Amazon & Cerrado. Currenlty farmers are seen as the main drivers, BJF works to make landowners, i.e. farmers the heroes again.
Planting millions of native trees together with the farmers, starting in the heart of the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor. Impacting positively both our necessary ecosystems as well as livelihoods of thousands of people, by creating local jobs. We are currently planting our first million native trees and building our third, but first large-scale nursery, with a capacity of 500,000 seedlings per year. A biodiversity corridor is a strip of reforested land that (re)connects previously fragmented portions of natural habitat. It helps to counter the negative effects of deforestation and to recover degraded areas. Newly reforested areas connect with national parks and indigenous reservations, together creating a mosaic of nature reserves.
The Black Jaguar Foundation spent over 10 years meticulously planning and preparing our bold project with our local partners to get proof of concept and develop a plan for tree growth and restoration. After extensive research, community building, and two successful planting seasons, we began to scale up in 2021. This year we are applying all we have learnt so far to the planting of our first million native trees and restoring 600 hectares of degraded land.
