🇧🇷Brazil

A Brasília-based seed network pays indigenous, family-farmer and urban collectors to harvest native Cerrado grasses and wildflowers, turning them back into standing savanna.

Associação Caatinga restores Brazil's semi-arid Caatinga biome using a long-root seedling technique that more than doubles tree survival on degraded, drought-hit land.

Illegal gold miners use mercury to bind the gold, the rivers carry it into the fish, and the Yanomami eat the fish — so the association measured its own people's hair to prove it.

After record wildfires torched a quarter of the Pantanal wetland, this Brazilian NGO is paying Indigenous communities to grow and plant native seedlings that heal burned springs and riverbanks.

Latin America's largest social movement, born from land occupations in the 1980s, has helped hundreds of thousands of landless rural families win legal title to farmland through Brazil's agrarian reform program.

A Brazilian NGO has spent over three decades restoring the Atlantic Forest, one of the world's most biodiverse and most destroyed rainforests.

Sebastião Salgado's institute that regrew a barren cattle farm into thriving Atlantic Forest.

Instituto Aritana unites 16 Indigenous peoples of Brazil's Xingu Indigenous Territory around community-built fire management plans that pair ancestral burning knowledge with modern brigades to keep megafires out of the forest.

Rio de Janeiro's city government pays residents to grow food on vacant lots and school grounds, turning idle urban land into tons of fresh produce for vulnerable communities.

A national network of beach stations that turned Brazil's five sea turtle species from bycatch statistics into a 40-million-strong conservation success story.

Since 1986, this Brazilian collective has put cameras in the hands of Indigenous filmmakers so their own footage becomes evidence and armor in the fight to keep Amazonian territories standing.

A São Paulo-founded institute has spent three decades mapping, litigating for and monitoring the Indigenous territories that science increasingly finds are Brazil's best defense against deforestation.