Lucky Tree Campaign exchanges seeds for planting trees

The Árvore da Sorte project, created by AGVIPP Projetos, from Bahia, and certified by the Secretariat for Economic Reforms, of the Ministry of Finance, will exchange 2 million sachets of seeds for 200,000 planted trees. The creator of the Árvore da Sorte project and executive president of AGVIPP, Luiz Cláudio Batista, informed Agência Brasil that it is a campaign to encourage the sale of sachets of vegetables, greens and vegetables to, at first, encourage agriculture familiar. “People go to the site and purchase a seed. Automatically, in the regulation itself, when it makes this acquisition, it is donating to the project itself, and we will implement community gardens on Itaparica Island, and we will also promote existing gardens in other Brazilian municipalities”, said Batista. The campaign has autonomy to sell 2 million sachets of seeds. For every ten sachets sold, a tree will be planted. With this proposal, the goal is 200,000 trees to be planted. The project also foresees, by popular poll, the carrying out of joint efforts to clean beaches. Part of the trees will be planted, starting next July, in the municipality of Simões Filho in Bahia, where a pilot reserve for the project will be made, both in terms of reforestation and the issue of vegetable gardens. Georeferencing Cities in other states will be visited with the same objective, seeking partnerships that want to join the initiative. “Each and every planting will have technical follow-up, which will be georeferenced”, said the project’s creator. He also pointed out that after planting, the municipality can seek to obtain carbon credits relative to the volume of trees to be planted, creating, at the same time, the concept of an environmental reserve. According to Luiz Cláudio Batista, the tree species that will be planted will meet the needs of the region’s biomes. He also informed that in addition to collaborating with sustainability in Brazil, project participants, whether individuals or companies, will compete for a prize of R$ 17,000, in the form of a motorcycle of the year. Batista highlighted the importance of investing in sustainable growth, in Brazil and in the world, in line with the guidelines of the United Nations (UN) on the importance of environmental preservation. Atlantic Forest In December of last year, the UN recognized the Atlantic Forest Trinational Pact as one of its ten World Restoration Reference Initiatives. The project involves 300 organizations that aim to preserve and restore what’s left of the Atlantic Forest in countries like Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina. Around 700,000 hectares of land have already been restored and the goal is to protect and revive one million hectares by 2030 and 15 million hectares by 2050, an area larger than the whole of Nepal, Greece or Nicaragua. These organizations are also protecting endangered species, such as the jaguar and the golden lion tamarin, ensuring the supply of water for people and nature, combating and creating resilience to climate change and generating thousands of jobs. The information is from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). More than 90% of the original Atlantic Forest has already been destroyed, mainly due to the expansion of agriculture, livestock, logging and urbanization.

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