This year, the Black Jaguar Foundation was selected by Planet Wild to showcase our work restoring nature and mobilizing communities in the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor — an ambitious initiative reconnecting areas of the Amazon and the Cerrado along the Araguaia River.
Every year, Planet Wild selects twelve environmental projects from around the world that are developing innovative solutions to restore nature. Through documentaries, the organization brings these stories to life, showing how restoration efforts are helping regenerate ecosystems and protect biodiversity.
In addition to producing the documentary, Planet Wild also supported the ecological restoration of 30 hectares during the 2025/2026 planting season in the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor.
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To capture the story behind the project, the Planet Wild team spent five days alongside our field team. During this time, they visited restoration areas, spoke with seed collectors and landowners, met members of our team, explored the forest nursery and navigated along the Araguaia River.
The documentary also highlights why the Cerrado is one of the most important — and at the same time most threatened — ecosystems on the planet. Despite hosting around 5% of all species on Earth, more than half of the biome has been converted into agricultural land in recent decades.
As a result, the landscape has become increasingly fragmented, leaving many natural areas isolated in the middle of vast plantations.
That is where the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor comes in.
The initiative works in partnership with landowners to restore degraded areas and reconnect fragments of native vegetation, gradually forming an ecological corridor of up to 2,600 km along the Araguaia River.
The restoration journey begins with the collection of native seeds, continues with seedling production in the forest nursery, and culminates in planting in degraded areas — helping recreate the conditions for biodiversity to return and ecosystems to thrive again.
At the same time, the project generates meaningful work opportunities for local communities, engaging seed collectors, nursery workers and field teams throughout the restoration process.
The result is a 10-minute documentary that shows how ecological restoration can transform degraded landscapes, strengthen local communities and help reestablish the natural balance between the Amazon, the Cerrado and the region’s water cycle.
