WildMon, WeForest, and the Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas (IPÊ) have partnered on a groundbreaking eco-acoustic monitoring project to understand how restoring forest corridors is supporting wildlife return to this fragmented landscape.

We visited Marcela’s nursery again in early 2024. She’s nearly doubled her production capacity from 2023: her nursery is able to produce 700,000 seedlings per year!

These photos, taken in December 2021 and February 2024 respectively, capture just how much we've achieved in just over two years.

The third year of acoustic data collection to monitor biodiversity was completed in 2023.

During the first six months of 2023, the next restoration areas for 2023-2024’s planting season were defined with IPÊ, our project partner.

This photo, taken at Categeró in the East Corridor, shows an area where only enrichment planting took place about a year before the photo was taken, not full planting.

The teams and partners from both our Atlantic Forest projects in Brazil, Pontal and Tietê, got together in June for a multi-day capacity building workshop.

In as little as three years, this restored area in the north corridor’s Sao Paulo farm – shown left in September 2021 and right in January 2023, now a 3km long stretch of green – has connected two large remaining fragments of the Atlantic Forest.

This is the Brazilian peppertree or rose pepper (Schinus terebinthifolia).

This is Agua Limpa farm in the North Corridor, one of the areas that were severely affected by the unprecedented frosts back in 2021.