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Bookmark or Share- Brazil's Atlantic Forest (Mata Atlântica) - WorldRainforests.comEncompassing a variety of tropical forest habitats—from dry forests to moist forests to coastal mangroves—the Mata Atlântica once stretched up-and-down Brazil's coastline, and covered parts of Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina. Today, it survives largely in small degraded patches and protected areas.
- The Atlantic Forest - The Nature ConservancyDespite its diminished state, the Atlantic Forest still ranks as a global conservation priority. Although it is just a small fraction of the size of the great Amazon rainforest, the Atlantic Forest still harbors a range of biological diversity similar to that of the Amazon.
- Inside the rebirth of South America’s Atlantic Forest - UNEPPersuading and helping landowners to let more indigenous trees grow on their land is central to one of the world’s most sustained and ambitious environmental projects: the restoration of the once-mighty Atlantic Forest.
- Atlantic Forest - WikipediaThe Atlantic Forest (Portuguese: Mata Atlântica) is a South American forest that extends along the Atlantic coast of Brazil from Rio Grande do Norte state in the northeast to Rio Grande do Sul state in the south and inland as far as Paraguay and the Misiones Province of Argentina, where the region is known as Selva Misionera.
- The Other Brazilian Rainforest: Why Restoring the Atlantic Forest Can ...Brazil's Atlantic Forest has a potential restoration area of almost 40 million hectares (99 million acres), roughly the same land area as Norway. A separate study published in Science shows that restoring these forests can be a very effective tool to tackle climate change.
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