Up to 2.5 million jobs could be generated through ecosystem restoration if Brazil meets target of restoring 12 million hectares of degraded land by 2030.
Restoration initiatives are slowly making a mark on the Atlantic Forest, a Brazilian biome that has been reduced to about a quarter of its original area. Brazil has made global commitments to restore tens of millions of hectares of forest by 2030, but the much smaller programs underway in the Atlantic Forest show country is still unable to monitor restoration efforts effectively.