Sustainable Forest Management

Our mosaic planting model combines areas planted with eucalyptus and areas of native trees, which helps restore degraded land and bring back animal and plant species, recovering part of the biodiversity. As our business model is closely connected to the environment, the balance of ecosystem services, based on the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources, is essential.

 

We are committed to connecting half a million hectares of priority areas for conservation in the Amazon, Atlantic Forest and Cerrado, helping address the global challenge of reversing biodiversity loss. This loss is often caused by the fragmentation of habitats, which increases the risk of species extinction, unbalances ecological functions and reduces ecosystem services, such as climate regulation, pollination and water and soil conservation.

  • In 2024, we made progress toward fulfilling our commitment by implementing sections of ecological corridors that connect 102,104 hectares of fragments, which, added to those that were connected in previous years, total 157,889 hectares. Some of these corridors are within our conservation and plantation areas. In corridors that cut through production areas, we implement biodiverse models, which are mixed models that combine areas of plantations and of native vegetation.

    During the year, we also started monitoring biodiversity to create baselines for functional connectivity in the Amazon, Atlantic Forest and Cerrado corridors. This work is based on an analysis of the current distribution of species, including some key species of primates and palm trees, to assess the positive impacts of the corridors on biodiversity over time.

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