Black Jaguar Foundation
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The Black Jaguar Foundation is a non-profit organization working to reforest the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado savanna, in Brazil. We plant native trees on a massive scale in collaboration with local landowners to realize the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor: bringing back biodiversity and improving the lives for all future generations.
Hoe wij aan de SDG's werken
The Black Jaguar Foundation actively contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These goals aim to target socio-economic problems, climate change and biodiversity loss. The BJF supports the SDGs through our well defined tasks and goals, which are all interconnected. The Black Jaguar Foundation (BJF) is driven to restore the balance between nature and mankind. We offer a tangible solution for the drastic degradation of two of our most precious ecosystems: the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado Savanna in Central Brazil. We pursue one clear objective: planting indigenous trees on a massive scale to realize the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor and as a result improves the lives of each of us and of all future generations on our planet.
Zo dragen wij bij aan de SDG's
Sustainable land management improves food security through sustainable agriculture. By promoting sustainable and inclusive agricultural practices, the BJF aims to help to improve food production rates in the area. Brazil is a large player in the World Food Market and an important agricultural exporter. Agricultural improvement can substantially improve the global supply chain, contributing to food security within the corridor region and beyond.
Without forests, there is no rain and no life. Rain cycles in Brazil depend on trees from the Amazon and Cerrado. Forests store water, increase the infiltration rate, assure replenishment and therefore assure the quality and availability of the water. As 80% of the entire Corridor zone has already been deforested, the Araguaia river will become parched without the planting of massive numbers of indigenous trees within the coming 20 years.
Reforestation restores degraded areas and through knowledge of sustainable land use, further land degradation is prevented and biodiversity conserved.
The corridor will protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems and sustainably manage forests. In order to reverse degradation and stop biodiversity loss, we will restore large areas of degraded land of the Cerrado Savanna and Amazon rainforest by planting native trees on a massive scale. By creating a mosaic of green patches of pristine land that will be connected, species of plants and animals will be able to recover and flourish again within their ecosystem.
On average 1200 native trees per hectare will be planted to start the restoration process. From the 10.4 million hectares of the Corridor Zone an area of 2 million hectares (estimates) is to be restored. BJF will use 4 different ecological restoration techniques. The outcome will result in a reforestation / ecological restoration project of over 2.4 billion trees! Making it one the world largest reforestation project for indigenous trees on the planet!
Without our partners, both technical and sponsor, there would be no Black Jaguar Foundation and therefore no Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor. Our partners are located all around the world and we ask everyone with the same driven energy to get involved. We work together with countries, governments, companies, NGOs and other authorities. To implement the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor we connect with the different stakeholders in the region, creating a multi-stakeholder network and promoting cooperatives.
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