The foundation is focusing its efforts totally on the Brazilian Rain Forests. Our objective is to EXPAND the areas of PROTECTED rain forest land as well as the REHABILITATION AND RE-PLANTING of formally forested areas.

1. In the AMAZON RAIN FOREST, the foundation directly acquires property from private individuals within selected areas of this amazing forest and arranges for the protection of this titled land. We welcome you to review the map page to see which locations we are currently focusing our efforts on. the Nature Concervancy buys land directly on behalf of our alliance. Based in Belém, Brazil, the Nature Concervancy also has an administrative support office in Curitiba, Brazil. Any and all property purchased or donated is held in trust by our group, never to be sold or destroyed.

Our long term objective is to actually begin a program of re-planting of the rain forest decimated over the past century. This will involve setting up nurseries where native species of trees will be raised from seeds or cuttings. This effort will help us to restore areas to a close proximity of the original ecosystem which once was on the various sites. We will duplicate the current successful ecosystem restoration projects currently taking place in the ATLANTIC RAIN FOREST to the south.

2. In the ATLANTIC RAIN FOREST, our intentions, with the assistance of seasoned groups in this forest, are to focus on the reclamation and protection of this extremely important ecosystem.

What do we mean by reclamation?  Through our affiliate organizations, your foundation is indirectly involved with the re-planting of the rain forest ecosystem. The remaining remnants here have been spared due to the fact that the rain forest land is located in a rugged and mountainous terrain, far too difficult to log and/or cultivate. This has been a good thing. These valley areas between these convoluted highly elevated landscapes (please refer to several of our website photos to view the territory we have discussed) has been used for centuries as pastures for water buffalos (for local meat) and other minimal agricultural projects. The entire fabric of this once 300 million acre+ ecosystem is just now holding on by a tiny thread as a result. It has been said that that the ATLANTIC RAIN FOREST ecosystem has a far more diversity of animal and plant species than the entire AMAZON RAIN FOREST!

Working directly with and indirectly through various non-profit groups, we are in the development of and in the management of tree nurseries of over 100 native tropical tree species to re-forest and re-plant areas that have been decimated by decades and decades of uncontrollable destruction. The mantra has always been “all in the name of progress.  Re-planting of formally rain forest areas provide to the world the benefit of the world at large, but also provides the positive aspects of carbon sequestration; this equates to the fact that growing trees (especially in a tropical rain forest) provides an enormous value of carbon absorption (a global warming plus) and the added benefit of oxygen production. Both of these naturally occurring aspects of tree and plant growth provide the earth with a dividend. And, unlike temperate forest, the tropical rain forests produce this offset equation year around. It is difficult to deny that the BRAZILIAN RAIN FOREST is one of the basic supporting cornerstones of life on earth.