Mata no Peito is a coalition initiative to support local organizations and communities to protect and replant forests throughout Brazil. Mata no Peito partners will make donations to a fund that will provide seed capital to innovative forestry projects. The Mata no Peito coalition will demonstrate the strength of joint actions to make a meaningful, positive environmental impact. We all cherish the forests, so take the challenge, become a partner and score a goal for the environment.
Brazil is home to over half of the planet’s tropical forests including the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest.
As the lungs of the planet, forests absorb and recycle CO2, helping to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and stabilize the climate.
Each year an area equivalent to over nine million soccer fields is deforested or degraded in Brazil due to logging or conversion to cropland or grazing land.
The loss of forests has major climate, biodiversity and socio-economic impacts.
Deforestation accounts for an estimated 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions and 60% of Brazil’s emissions, its largest source.
Deforestation threatens biodiversity: The Amazon is the most biodiversity rich rainforest in the world and is home to one in ten known plant and animal species.
Deforestation threatens the communities who depend on the forest for their food, water and livelihoods.
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