In 2017, Conservation International announced it was launching the world's largest-ever tropical reforestation project, with a plan to plant 73 million trees in Brazil's Amazon across 30,000 hectares by the end of 2023.

Can the rainforest be replanted?

Rainforest conservation is just as important as trying to reforest other areas. Reforestation can be accomplished by nature, by humans or through a combination of the two. ... However, exotic trees may make the land unsuitable for future rainforest cultivation by changing the soil's original characteristics.

How long until rainforests no longer exist?

Half the world's rainforests have been razed in a century, and the latest satellite analysis shows that in the last 15 years new hotspots have emerged from Cambodia to Liberia. At current rates, they will vanish altogether in 100 years.