By restoring degraded areas, Muvuca can facilitate more carbon capture. The technique has been successful in Amazonia, the largest tropical forest in the world, as well as in Cerrado. Here, more than 294 tons of seeds using the muvuca technique were planted, which have resulted in the growth of more than 25 million trees, on 7,400 hectares of restored land.  

by Marcela Maria Martins de Souza, ClimateTracker.Org; this story was published with the support of One Earth, through our Local Solutions Journalism Programme.

HT: David Hodgson via The Regeneration