The Vale Florestar project, one of mining company Vale’s main environmental projects in the north of Brazil, will benefit 300 Mha in the southeast of Pará. It will enable CO2 sequestration in record volumes. Altogether, more than 11 million seedlings have already been planted and 40,000 ha have been recovered; 15,000 to plant eucalyptus and 25,000 for reforestation of the native woods in the region.Vale Florestar, initiated in 2007, is the largest environmental recovery project established in the Amazon.
By 2015, it will receive $300 million in investments, of which $60 million will be provided by the end of the year. Today Vale helps to protect nearly 3 billion trees around the world, most of them in the Amazon.