![]() ![]() Seasonal flooding, fires – even arson – are perpetual worries. Tree-planting groups, meanwhile, have struggled to cultivate some native trees on a mass scale. In the Amazon, it would also safeguard the atmospheric moisture that rolls off the rainforest and carries showers to faraway fields and reservoirs.īut in Brazil, many farmers who have carved livelihoods out of the rainforest fear that environmental groups want to push them out. Such efforts also could restore wildlife habitats and help protect threatened species. These projects, science suggests, could help slow global warming by trapping carbon dioxide in living trees. Threats are just one of the challenges facing Rioterra and other environmental groups around the world pursuing a seemingly simple fix for the climate crisis: replanting denuded forests. Staffer Milton da Costa Junior has been threatened twice in the area, where land-grabbers are illegally razing the jungle for ranching. A fire set by suspected arsonists in September 2022 destroyed a vast swath of trees planted by the nonprofit group Rioterra in a forest preserve in Brazil’s Amazon. ![]()
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