"Restoration of forestland and other areas is taking root, but lags far behind the rapid rate of deforestation in the Amazon."
"NOVA XAVANTINA, Brazil - In a room at the back of her house, Vera Alves da Silva Oliveira keeps the air-conditioning on day and night to protect bags of seeds gathered by hand from Brazil's Amazon rainforest and Cerrado savannah.
Oliveira is one of more than 700 seed gatherers in the Xingu Seeds Network working to help recover forests and savannas across Mato Grosso, a major agricultural state.
Forest restoration is slowly taking root in Brazil, backed by civil society networks, businesses and increased funding, after the government pledged to restore 12 million hectares (30 million acres) of natural areas by 2030 as part of its climate goals under the Paris Agreement of 2015.
Yet 2024 was the worst year on record for global tropical forest loss, with Brazil accounting for 42% of the destruction after losing 2.82 million hectares, mostly due to fires, data from research group World Resources Institute showed."
Andre Cabette Fabio reports for Thomson Reuters Foundation Context January 9, 2026.
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