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Amazon restoration just got a $204 million boost from Brazil, aimed at bringing degraded rainforest back to life through replanting and natural regrowth. The program flows through the Amazon Fund, with renewed backing from Norway and Germany after years of paused support. Much of the work will lean on Indigenous and traditional communities, whose territories consistently show lower deforestation than surrounding lands. It builds on real momentum: deforestation in the first half of 2023 fell by half compared to the year before. No single check rewrites decades of loss, but a forest that shelters roughly 10% of all known species — and helps regulate rainfall across a continent — is finally being treated as something worth actively healing.