Monday, July 5, 2021

FROM BARREN LAND TO RAINFOREST

Twenty years ago in Brazil, photographer Sebastião Salgado returned from an assignment to his family property and discovered that the land was barren, deforested, and devoid of animal life. Over the next twenty years, he and his wife, Lélia Deluiz Wanick Salgado, along with others, planted 2.7 million trees. They completely restored the forest, which thus far has 283 species of plants, 15 types of amphibians, 15 of reptiles, 33 different mammals, and 172 species of birds! This remarkable couple has also founded a nonprofit institute dedicated to ecology, the Instituto Terra.

Note: While the photos in the video help tell this magnificent story, the background music is pretty atrocious. We suggest turning your volume off when watching this YouTube.
 
 
 

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