"When celebrated Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado took over family land in the state of Minas Gerais, instead of the tropical paradise that he remembered as a child, he found the trees cut down and the wildlife gone. He was devastated. It was 1994 and he had just returned from a traumatic assignment reporting on the genocide in Rwanda. "The land was as sick as I was -- everything was destroyed," Salgado told The Guardian. "Only about 0.5% of the land was covered in trees." Salgado's wife, Lelia Deluiz Wanick Salgado, had the idea to replant the forest...
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