BLACK JAGUAR - Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor

The Amazon is the green lung of the planet, and is fast approaching the "point of no return". The Amazon basin includes the largest rainforest in the world (about 6 million square kilometres) with the longest river, the Amazon River, which originates in the Andes and flows to the Atlantic Ocean, displacing 220,000 cubic metres of water per second. The Amazon forest, shaped by billions of years of geological and climatic changes, is home to hundreds of thousands of animal and plant species, many still unknown, as well as indigenous populations with an immense biocultural variety. Yet between species extinction, habitat degradation and illegal deforestation, the situation it finds itself in is nothing short of dramatic.

In 10 years (between 2010-2020) approximately 300,000 square km of Amazon forest have been deforested, therefore lost, equal to the entire surface of Italy. Over the same period of time, over 170,000 square kilometres of primary forest have been cut, burned or degraded, the most precious and rich in biodiversity, most of which is in Brazil.
2019 was the worst year for fires in the world, with 12 million hectares (120,000 square km) of Amazon forest going up in smoke. The rate of deforestation, however, is still steadily increasing in the Brazilian Amazon.

Between August 2020 and July 2021 the pace of deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon increased by 22% compared to the previous year. The surface area affected by the cuts was 13,235 square km levels of deforestation that had not been recorded since 2005-2006, when the surface affected was 14,286 square km (Source National Institute for Space Research (Inpe).

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The Amazon forest, in its original structure, acts like a large irrigation system (water vapour from the great green ocean that creates the rios voadores - flying rivers) which distributes humidity in rain to all the surrounding territories from Brazil to Argentina.
The studies analysed by the report show that if the region loses more than 25-30% of its original forest cover, the feared tipping point will be reached, i.e. the limit beyond which the forest will lose its ability to sustain itself independently. By 2022, the data recorded 26% of the Amazon forest lost.
Beyond the tipping point, the rainforest would become an ecosystem more similar to the African Savannah.

The objectives of the Black Jaguar project that the Fondazione Capellino will monitor

The Black Jaguar project aims to create a large ecological corridor in Brazil 2,600 km long in the Araguaia river basin, to connect two of the most vital ecosystems in the world, the Amazon rainforest and the Cerrado savanna. The Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor will become the longest of all natural corridors on the planet and one of the largest rewilding projects in South America.

These are very ambitious objectives whose actual achievability will be verified by the Fondazione Capellino - through the third-party Control Commission it has appointed.

How we will achieve this?

The role of the Fondazione Capellino

The Fondazione Capellino joins the Black Jaguar Institute in managing the project, of which the latter remains the leader who conducts the operations, to guarantee the transparency and control of the activities as well as contributing to bringing a 360° vision that includes measurement and the monitoring of biodiversity with a rigorously technical-scientific approach.

Fondazione Capellino is therefore not a sterile project sponsor, but a co-leader who ensures - in addition to supporting the activities - control, scientific rigor, data collection, and above all that the ambitious objectives in the medium and long term are concretely achievable .

Control Commission

Fondazione Capellino is responsible for ensuring at its own expense the verification of the correctness and transparency of the operations conducted by Instituto Black Jaguar. To this end we have appointed an independent Commission made up of Brazilian professionals (a lawyer, an environmental engineer expert in biodiversity, a tax consultant) who monitor the operations carried out in the field and verify both formal correctness (fiscal, financial, legal, etc.) and the concrete implementation of the plan and the restoration techniques adopted.

The Commission will have full access to all project information, and will carry out inspections in the intervention areas to monitor the completion of the activities. Once a year, during budget approval, it will present the results of its checks to all project stakeholders and will make them public on its communication channels, such as this website.

The results of the audit

We will publish the results of the Control Commission's checks on our website quarterly, and we will interface with the other investors and stakeholders of the project.

The preliminary assessment of the operations (the first audit) is currently underway and the results will be published upon completion.

Our Partners

Black Jaguar Foundation is a non-profit organisation working to reforest the Amazon rainforest and Cerrado Savannah in Brazil. They plant native trees on a large scale in collaboration with local landowners, to create the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor.

Fondazione Capellino joins Black Jaguar Foundation-BJF in running the project, of which BJF remains the leader conducting the operations, to help bring a 360° vision that includes the measurement and monitoring of biodiversity, restored by the action of renaturalisation of the areas, as well as the social aspects involving the human activities that orbit around the corridor itself (the villages and economic activities, primarily agriculture and livestock farming).

The Foundation Capellino is not just a project sponsor, but a co-leader that ensures - in addition to the financing of the activities - scientific rigour, data collection, the ability to achieve ambitious objectives in the medium and long term.

Not only is Fondazione Capellino also responsible for ensuring at its own expense the verification of the correctness and transparency of the operations conducted by BJF. To this end, we have appointed an independent commission made up of Brazilian professionals who monitor the operations carried out by BJF and on a quarterly basis verify both the formal (fiscal, financial, legal, etc.) and concrete implementation correctness of the plan and restoration techniques adopted. The Commission has full access to all project information, and carries out inspections in the intervention areas to monitor the completion of the activities. Once a year, during budget approval, it presents the results of its checks to all project stakeholders and makes them public on its communication channels, such as this website.

BLACK JAGUAR - Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor

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The objectives of the Black Jaguar project that the Fondazione Capellino will monitor

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