The Atlantic Rainforest is home to over 2,200 species of birds and animals and contains 60% of all of Brazil’s endangered species. Seventy percent of the plants in the rainforest have anti-cancer properties.

Roughly 70% of Brazil’s population lives in the Atlantic Rainforest.  As a result, unsustainable logging, cattle grazing, and urban development have wiped out most of the rainforests habitat.

In 2.5 hectares of the Atlantic Rainforest there is more tree and plant diversity than the entire eastern coastline of the United States. Instituto Terra plants 110 species of trees per hectare at the original density of the Atlantic Rainforest (2,500 trees/hectare).  The reforestation, with this degree of diversity and density of planting, yields many benefits: restoration of biodiversity, plant and animal habitat recovery, species recovery, watershed protection, water course recovery, etc.

With the restoration of habitat at Instituto Terra, over 25 mammals have returned!

Over 162 bird species have returned!