MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD

from BJF Annual Report 2022

AUDITORS’ REPORT BLACK JAGUAR FOUNDATION

2022 was a year full of landmark moments for the Earth, with the Right to a healthy environment having been officially established and the very first UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15)! We are also very happy to see ever-growing support for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

In 2022, we focused on expanding our efforts of ecological restoration and operated in 14 partner farms! To support this increase in planting, we have built a large-scale nursery that is operating at high capacity and already producing over 500,000 seedlings per cycle. Scaling up our operations was made possible with the growth of our incredibly motivated team – which now consists of over 150 individuals directly hired by the Black Jaguar Foundation, or benefiting from our project as members of the Araguaia Seed Network.

Many of the seeds germinated in the BJF nursery come from the Araguaia Seed Network, which is another of the BJF’s great developments in 2022. Over 600 kilograms of native seeds were purchased from 35 active seed collectors in just 3 months last year!

Our achievements in 2022 for our planet would not have been possible without our loyal community of sponsor partners. In March 2022, we signed an exciting partnership with CAIXA Federal bank, the third largest bank in Latin America, to plant 1 million trees! Further, we will continue to receive support from Royal De Heus and their Brazilian branch, De Heus Brazil. Our partnerships with EFG Wealth Solutions via Aegis Charitable Trust, Movida, TreeLove, and One Tree Planted, have also been instrumental in helping us to realise our mission of hope and action in 2022 and beyond.

A big thank you to our ever-dedicated and growing team for working their restoration magic and making all of this possible. It takes a lot of drive and commitment to work towards realizing the longest biodiversity corridor in the world, in the heart of Brazil - and in the hot Brazilian sun! Our field team in Santana do Araguaia are true ecological restoration champions, inspiring us to do better by the Earth every day. In São Paulo and Amsterdam, our teams do all in their power to enable this ecological restoration to happen!

Together, we can restore the balance between nature and humankind. How about starting today? Let’s dive in!

Ben Valks Initiator & Board member BJF Brasil

Flavia da Cruz Carneiro Board member BJF Brasil

Camila Lefèvre Board member BJF Brasil

Bart Jaspers Board member BJF Netherlands

Drs . Jerry Griep Board member BJF Netherlnads

TOGETHER WE ARE RESTORING THE BALANCE BETWEEN NATURE AND HUMANKIND... REALISING THE LONGEST BIODIVERSITY CORRIDOR AND ONE OF THE LARGEST REFORESTATION PROJECTS ON EARTH!