The Amazon will only continue to survive as a functional ecosystem if it can be preserved permanently and be shown to provide tangible economic benefits to the local communities that inhabit it.

THE AMAZON

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The Amazon rain forest draws water from the ground and from the trees, and releases the moisture into the atmosphere. This process influences world climate, the circulation of ocean currents and the rainfall in the bread basket of the world (Mid and Southern Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay). And, finally, the Amazon is a carbon sink: It stores carbon dioxide and prevents it from entering the atmosphere and fueling climate change.

30%

of the world’s animal and plant species are found in the Amazon.

30 million

people, including 350 indigenous groups, live in the Amazon

1/5

of the world’s fresh water is in the Amazon Basin.

THE PROBLEM

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OVER THE PAST 40 YEARS,

the forest has lost 800,000 sq. km

Scientists are noticing something disturbing in the Amazon rainforest: deforestation is leading to the failure of the forest ecosystem. Many scientists believe we are reaching a tipping point, and at current deforestation rates in the Amazon, within a few decades the Amazon biome may cease to be a rainforest and become savanna-like with semiarid vegetation.

Image (below) is of an area representing 1,180 kmĀ² in Rondonia, Brazil. eveal decade

OUR SOLUTION

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We are in the business of land preservation & transformation. ASF Brazil acquires, protects and transforms undervalued land and forest assets, and does so providing uncorrelated double-digit financial returns and significant and measurable environmental and social changes.