In an action of the Raízes do Mogi Guaçu program, Copaíba leads the restoration of forest areas with the planting of more than 20 thousand seedlings

Over the last few months, the initiative has contributed to the protection of ten springs, eleven streams and 5,000 meters of watercourse banks.

Between December 2024 and February 2025, the Copaíba Environmental Association — a civil society organization whose mission is to conserve and restore the Atlantic Forest in the Peixe and Camanducaia river basins — planted more than 20,000 native seedlings in the city of Serra Negra. The action is part of the Raízes do Mogi Guaçu Program, developed through a partnership between global institutions Sylvamo and WWF-Brazil with the aim of identifying, recovering, and restoring springs and areas of interaction between vegetation, soil, and watercourses.

Responsible for implementing the program in the Rio do Peixe sub-basin region, Copaíba had the partnership of mountain landowners Roberto Corsetti and Luciano Cavinato, whose properties total more than 29 hectares that have become new forests, through the initiative implemented over the last week.

In total, the action in Serra Negra contributes to the protection of ten springs, twelve streams and 5 thousand meters of watercourse banks, according to Ana Paula Balderi, Ecological Restoration Coordinator of Copaíba. “We are grateful for the partnership with the landowners, because through it we were able to restore a super important area for the Permanent Protection Areas (APPs). Serra Negra is part of the Water Circuit and is a priority area for ecological conservation that must advance throughout the Atlantic Forest biome,” she points out.

As the Coordinator points out, in order to achieve outstanding results such as those presented, the program relies on the support of landowners located in the Rio do Peixe sub-basin area who are interested in contributing to the ecological restoration of the region. For those interested, the contact channel to join Raízes do Mogi Guaçu is WhatsApp: (19) 99667-0229. 

Learn more about the program at: https://copaiba.org.br/restauracao-florestal/.

More about Copaiba

Created in 1999 by a group of friends who were concerned about the degradation of the Atlantic Forest in the municipality of Socorro-SP, the Copaíba Environmental Association is a non-profit organization, qualified as a Civil Society Organization of Public Interest (OSCIP) and which operates in 19 municipalities in the eastern region of the State of São Paulo and southern Minas Gerais. Currently, the association promotes ecological restoration projects and programs; production of native seedlings; environmental education initiatives and participation in public policies. In total, more than 4 million seedlings have been produced, 380 partner landowners, 713 hectares have been restored and 40 thousand participants in Environmental Education experiences. Learn more at: https://copaiba.org.br/.