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Additional Contents 2008to create a RPPN on their properties andsupports projects that create and managethese private reserves. In addition, it promotesinstitutional strengthening of theNational Confederation and state associationsof RPPN owners.Since its inception in 2003, the programhas benefited 172 projects, amounting to260 RPPNs in the process of being createdand that will protect more than 16 thousandhectares in remaining areas that are key toAtlantic Rainforest conservation.In 2008, this program celebrated its 5th anniversaryby launching in Rio de Janeiro thepublication 5 anos do Programa de Incentivoàs Reservas Particulares do PatrimônioNatural (RPPNs), 5 years of the IncentiveProgram to the Natural Heritage PrivateReserves (RPPNs), which reports the mainresults it has obtained. On the same day, theMinistry of the Environment announced thecreation of a RPPN Advisory Committee inorder to improve the creation tools and supportto these reserves.Bradesco Cartões is a co-sponsor of theAtlantic Rainforest Conservation Alliance,a partnership between SOS Mata Atlânticaand Conservation International (CI)which since 2007 has been relying on theparticipation of The Nature Conservancy.In 2009, the 7th edition of the RPPN IncentiveProgram was launched, now opento the entire Atlantic Rainforest.Forest RecoveryClickarvoreThis is a forest recovery program whereclicks from Internet users are worth trees.Free of charge, registered users are able todonate a tree/day through financing fromone of the partner companies. This websitehas recorded peaks of 27 thousandclicks per day.Bradesco Capitalização sponsored theplanting of 20.6 million saplings and BradescoCartões, 4.8 million saplings. As ofDecember 31, 2008 a total of 25,400,000trees had been donated.In 2008, approximately seven million saplingswere planted—double the total volumerecorded in the previous year. The projectsimplemented and those in progress in sameperiod amounted to over 19 million saplings.By December 2009, we expect to have purchaseda total of 24 million saplings. Visitwww.clickarvore.com.br and be a part ofthis program.Forests of the FutureThis is a forest recovery program in riparianforests that aims at protecting watershed areasand water production. By 2008, thanksto resources donated by Bradesco Eco-Financing,354,535 trees had been planted.Saplings are will offset part of the CO2 emissionsresulting from vehicles financed byBradesco. Further information is available atwww.florestasdofuturo.org.br.Forests of the Future –Community NurseriesThe Community Nurseries are partnerswith the Fundação SOS Mata Atlânticaand local institutions where nurseries areinstalled and teams are trained to producesaplings of native Atlantic Rainforest speciesand in recovery of riparian forest areas,as part of the Forests of the Futureprogram. This program generates employmentand income in local communities,besides the environmental education issue,which is always associated with nurseryactivities.This program receives part of revenuesfrom the Pé Quente Bradesco SOS MataAtlântica certificated savings plans—which had already sponsored 350 thousand130Back