Saving Brazil’s Mata Atlântica
For the past nine years, Brazilian forestry engineer Laury Cullen Jr. has coordinated efforts to conserve remaining fragments of the Atlantic forest that once occupied much of eastern Brazil. Working with small landholders, he is proving that agroforestry techniques can revive degraded soil while saving the forest and its exceptional fauna.
"We teach farmers that by using agroforestry principles they can bring back the productivity of the land.”
He now plans to increase the number of forested corridors in the state of São Paulo and to help more than 400 new families to earn a living based on agroforestry.
- Project Location
- Related Links
- Get Involved
Support IPÊ
Learn More - Similar Projects
José Márcio Ayres
Combine the protection of the Amazon forest with human needs
Anita Studer
Plant trees and create new forests around Quebrangulo in Brazil
- Other 2004 Associate Laureates
- Contact Information
Mr Laury Cullen Jr.
Research Coordinator
IPÊ - Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas
Caixa Postal 31
19280-000 – Teodoro Sampaio
São Paulo
Brazil
