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Husband And Wife Plant 2.7 Million Trees In 20 Years To Restore A Destroyed Forest

Source: Sunny Skyz

In the early 1990s, Brazilian photojournalist Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado was stationed in Rwanda to cover the accounts of genocide. The on-ground experience left him traumatized.

In 1994, he was returning to his home in Minas Gerais, Brazil, hoping to find solace in the lap of a lush green forest where he had grown up.

couple restores forest plants 2 million trees
Lélia and Sebastião Salgado / Credit: Ricaro Beliel

But, instead, he found dusty, barren land for miles and miles. In only a few years, his beautiful hometown underwent rampant deforestation.

For him, everything was destroyed.

“The land was as sick as I was. Only about 0.5% of the land was covered in trees,” Salgado told The Guardian.

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