Instituto Terra
Aimorés, Brasil
Environment
Florian Guillaume: “The Salgados replanted a dead farm into forest, and the springs and animals came back, which gives me hope.”
Founded in 1998 by legendary photographer Sebastião Salgado and his wife Lélia Wanick Salgado on the family farm in Aimorés, Minas Gerais. When they inherited the land, it was a degraded cattle ranch, deforested, dry, lifeless. Over 25 years, Instituto Terra planted 6.5 million native Atlantic Forest seedlings across 1,500 hectares. The springs returned. The animals came back: pumas, giant anteaters, maned wolves, 170+ bird species, 33 reptile species. UNESCO Biosphere Reserve status granted. Th
Resolve · All-In · Human Imagination · Forests · Rewilding · Biodiversity
Website · Curated by Florian Guillaume
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