The website you are about to enter has information about our South American booze, Novo Fogo Cachaças. They are tasty concoctions from the Atlantic Rainforest of Southern Brazil, and they’re even organically certified by the USDA. But you can’t have even a drop unless you are of legal drinking age in your country of residence. You can’t even look at it. We are serious. OK?
“These forest remnants are secondary growth, which means at some point in the past these areas were cleared, then the forest grew back. The forest structure varies very little and is mostly composed of two tree stories, the highest trees reaching about 18 meters in some areas, and only 10-12 meters in other areas. The mature Atlantic Forest has four stories and reaches up to 35 meters. Despite their young age, these forest remnants are in good condition and are well-developed. The undergrowth is not dense and is easy to walk through, as the shade is dense. There are many palmito juçara plants (Euterpe edulis) and a high diversity of life forms. This is the ideal environment to receive the seedlings the Un-Endangered Forest project is going to produce, as these are the species that will develop into the mature forest. From a carbon offset standpoint, these forests will be capturing carbon for a long time and may contribute to the carbon neutral goal of Novo Fogo.”We also depend on the calculations done by a local NGO named Sociedade de Pesquisa em Vida Selvagem (Society for Research on Wildlife, or SVPS). The folks at SVPS in Curitiba have calculated that secondary growth Atlantic Forests in our area sequester between 0.2 and 0.64 tons of carbon per acre per year, depending on the plant density and other factors. If we apply that to the 75 acres of forest on our land, we arrive at a conservative estimate of between 15 and 48 tons of carbon per year absorbed by our growing forests.
