Biased media reports that present only part of the story cause damage to serious efforts in nature conservation and sustainable development in Brazil

Instead of helping to solve a problem that governments, scientists and environmentalists all over the world are trying to solve, the PBS-Frontline reports make an extremely negative contribution to this effort. These investigative reports fail to gather all the facts on purpose and lead viewers to a completely erroneous understanding in an anti ethical and unprofessional manner. The reports "The Money Tree" and "The Carbon Hunter", published respectively in October of 2009 and May of 2010, speak out against serious work, of renowned technical quality that has achieved important results in combating climate change, contributed to biodiversity conservation of an endangered ecosystem and offered development alternatives to communities in the region of Guaraqueçaba, in the Atlantic Forest of Southern Brazil.