Restoring South America’s Atlantic forests Latin
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Atlantic Forest stretches across the borders of Brazil, Paraguay
and Argentina. The rainforests are among the most biologically-
rich regions in the world, home to jaguars and tamarins; but it
is also one of the most endangered. Today only 7% of the
original forest cover remains in Brazil, all of it fragmented by
centuries of unsustainable use and logging. WWF has a number of
restoration projects in the region aimed at returning native
forest where it has previously been destroyed or degraded. It is
also working on establishing new protected areas and creating
“green corridors” to connect isolated tracts of forests. The
Atlantic Forest ecoregion once stretched over 1 million km2
along Brazil's coast in 13 states, with extensions inland into
Eastern Paraguay and the Misiones province in Northeastern Arg