Brazil wants to replant the Amazon. Where’s it going to get enough trees?

Jun 23, 2023

More than two hundred million acres of the Brazilian Amazon have been clear cut or degraded. Image: REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

Michael B. Jenkins

President and Chief Executive Officer, Forest Trends

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