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The Atlantic Rainforest Institute (ARFI)
The Atlantic Rainforest is the most striking example of a conservation HOTSPOT – 93% of it’s original size has been destroyed during the last 500 years. It is very rich in biodiversity and under continued threat! Just for your information: about 80% of the Amazon remains today. The worst, the Atlantic Rainforest is hardly known by anybody in the Western world – we all must change this!
ARFI, founded in 2005 to create direct action initiatives in the Atlantic Rainforest have created Carbon Neutralization program that closes the circle on urgent Reforestation and Protection needs while addressing the many of the social issues that foster them. Using the ARFI "Carbon Calculator", you can gauge your carbon footprint and offset your emissions with money directly invested into creating a Conservation and Reforestation Corridor in one of the worlds most threatened bio-diversity hot spots. See ARFI Carbon Calculator
Why?
The Atlantic Forest or "Mata Atlantica“ stretches along Brazil's Atlantic coast. It extends inland to eastern Paraguay and the province of Misiones in northeastern Argentina, and narrowly along the coast into Uruguay. Also included in this hotspot is the offshore archipelago of Fernando de Noronha and several other islands off the Brazilian coast.
The Atlantic Rainforest comprises 7 ecosystems with up to 5 altitudinal zones. Therefore, the biodiversity of the Atlantic Rainforest is particularly high. It comprises the second largest biosphere reserve on Earth. About 600 of Brazil's 900 conservation units are to be found in the Atlantic Rainforest.
The exceptional biodiversity of the ecosystems of the Atlantic Rainforest is related to its geological history, its tropical and subtropical position, severe climate changes in the past and substantial altitudinal differences from 0 to almost 3.000 m. The coastal mountain ranges „Serra do Mar“ and „Mantiqueira“ contain the highest peaks on the Atlantic side of the American continent. Additionally coastal Rainforests are significantly richer in biodiversity than inland ones like.
Original Size...
The original size of the Atlantic Rainforest once covered over 1.23 million km2. Today a mere of 99 thousand km2 remain. That is less then 7%!
Even tough heavily deforested, the biome still holds a very high biological diversification with a high level of endemism. The Atlantic Rainforest harbor more then 20'000 tree species. In Southern Bahia (where the SRARFI base camp is located) there were following counts recorded in only one hectare (size of a football field): 270 species of mammals (90 endemic), 372 amphibious (260 endemic), 197 reptiles (60 endemic), 849 birds (188 endemic), 2120 butterflies (948 endemic) and a world record of 456 trees. Once a species is extinct, it is gone forever!
ARFI CO² Program
With this particular program you can offset your CO² produced by directly sponsoring your own virgin plot of Atlantic Rainforest in Bahia/Brazil. All land adopted by you is transferred into a natural reserve "RPPN“. You can visit your sponsored land on our main entry page where you can leave your trace behind on the interactive map. Or even better – visit us and your sponsored land personally in Brazil, this is truly unique.
With this program you invest into the idea of preserving the Atlantic Rainforest NOT into the idea of whitewashing your bad CO² conscience. This is an ON-TOPIC-PROJECT, this means we invest your donated money directly and 100% into our project to save the Atlantic Rainforest. Like this you invest into the future of our children! To have something to go on in how much you should invest into this sustainable program, SRARFI provides you with some CO² facts. The following data is based on average values and can vary from your personal CO² emissions. Our program appraises one ton CO² with the amount of € 42, which again is an average value on costs.
Visit the ARFI site: www.atlanticrainforest.org
ARFI is a non-governmental organization with trade register number - 2984 à Folha 0022 do Livro A-14 do Cartório de Títulos e Documentos da Comarca de Ilhéus - Bahia - Brazil. CNPJ - 08.631.232 /0001-50 (Cadastro de Pessoa Juridica). Date of Foundation: 5th of June 2005
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