Brazil’s Atlantic Forest is one of the most biologically diverse places on Earth. Roughly one in every 50 plant and land-dwelling vertebrate species is endemic to the region and is found nowhere else in the world.
Stretching for 3,000 kilometers along much of Brazil’s coast and spreading inland as far as Argentina and Paraguay, the incredible biodiversity of the Atlantic Forest comes from its mosaic of different ecosystems, including natural grasslands, tropical rainforests, ancient forests adapted to wintry chills, misty mountainous “cloud forests,” and more.
But its eye-watering richness of life is in grave danger: the Atlantic Forest has been...
