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Share your love for nature and your support for the Plant a Billion Trees program when you post this "I Support Plant a Billion Trees" widget to your Facebook profile, blog or webpage. Show your friends what you are doing to make a difference in our world.

See how your support is helping create a lasting legacy for future generations in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Read this letter from program director Fernando Veiga thanking you for your portion of the one billion trees we hope to plant to restore this critical forest.

Centuries ago, the once-mighty Atlantic Forest covered nearly 330 million acres, an area roughly the size of the eastern seaboard of the United States. Today only 7 percent remains. The Conservancy has launched an ambitious effort to plant 1 billion trees and bring this natural treasure back from the brink.

Journey deep into the rainforest! View this video clip to learn more about the Atlantic Forest and what The Nature Conservancy is doing to protect one of the world's most diverse and fragile forests.

Today, only 7 percent of the once mighty Atlantic Forest remains. The Nature Conservancy is undertaking an ambitious campaign to plant 1 billion trees over 2.5 million acres of land. Read more about this effort in the Nature Conservancy magazine article, “Growth Potential.”

The Atlantic Forest is among the most biologically diverse forests in the world and harbors a high number of species that are found nowhere else on Earth. The Nature Conservancy is reforesting degraded lands and reconnecting tracts of native forest through an ambitious campaign to plant one billion native trees.

The pink coloring of the Roseate spoonbill often leads people to confuse it with the flamingo. This beautiful bird can be found wading in the coastal waters of South America (including Brazil's Atlantic Forest), the Caribbean and in the United States along the Gulf Coast.