Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra pays homage to the rainforest

Project to reforest destroyed rainforest

"We have destroyed the rainforest," the renowned photographer Salgado had repeatedly warned until his death in May a year ago: "If we destroy the balance in the rainforest, then we destroy the climatic balance on the planet." One solution to the major ecological crisis was to reforest the forests. The photographer and his wife campaigned for this. In 1998, they founded a project to turn deforested land around his parents' farm in south-eastern Brazil back into a species-rich primeval forest. As a result of their commitment, more than three million trees have already been planted and seven million square meters of forest have been created.