In Brazil, planting forests for carbon credits could help ecosystem restoration
via news.mongabay.com
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In Eunápolis, in the southern Brazilian state of Bahia, the clearing of Atlantic Forest for agriculture started centuries ago, leaving a patchwork of cattle pastures, monocultures and degraded land. Between 11% and 25% of Brazil’s native vegetation is in a process of degradation related to deforestation, while 22% of its pasture is severely degraded. To […]