Xokleng Indigenous people plant thousands of critically endangered pine in Brazil

The Xokleng Indigenous people of Santa Catarina state of southern Brazil have planted nearly a  100,000 seedlings of a critically endangered native tree, Mongabay contributor Letícia Klein reported.

The Brazilian pine (Araucaria angustifolia), or araucária, can grow more than 50 meters (164 feet) tall and has a straight trunk with a broad crown of branches […]