Slow and steady wins the race

Two decades ago, renowned photographer Sebastião Salgado returned home to Brazil after a traumatic assignment reporting on the genocide in Rwanda.

When he made it home, he was shocked to find his family's land barren.

• “The land was as sick as I was – everything was destroyed,”  he told The Guardian. “Only about 0.5% of the land was covered in trees.”

🌱 It starts with a seed... Sebastião and his wife, Leila, decided to start replanting the forest that used to flourish on the property. Now, two decades and more than 2 million trees later, the forest has returned – along with some rare flora and fauna that hadn't been seen for years.