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Atlantic Forest of South America: Planting One Billion Trees

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The Atlantic Forest — encompassing eastern Brazil, northern Argentina and eastern Paraguay — is one of the most diverse and threatened forests left on our planet and provides water for 70 percent of Brazil's population.

But the forest has been reduced to only 7 percent of its original size, much in isolated fragments.

By 2015, the Conservancy and partners will spur the planting of 1 billion native trees, reforesting 2.5 million acres and creating enormous forest corridors to preserve, connect and buffer new and existing public protected areas.

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Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photos © Michael Giannechini (waterfall); © Marci Eggers/TNC (fern frond); © Scott Warren (Plant a Billion Trees); © Gilberto Tiepolo/TNC (Fact Sheet); © Marci Eggers/TNC (Take a Trip with Us)