Brazil and a number of NGOs are about to embark on the largest tropical reforestation effort ever attempted—73 million new trees over the next six years, according to Smithsonian Magazine.
The replanting effort will take place over a 74,000-acre region across several Brazilian states. The goal of the program is to revitalize the 20 percent of the Amazon that has been lost to deforestation caused by agriculture over the past 40 years.
“This is a breathtakingly audacious project,” said M. Sanjayan, CEO of Conservation International, one of main participating NGOs, in a statement. “The fate of the Amazon depends on getting this right—as do the region’s 25 million residents, its countless species and the climate of our planet.”
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