AMSTERDAM - A large area of Brazilian rainforest located within one of AkzoNobel's sites is being planted with around 12,000 seedlings of species native to the region as part of an ongoing project to safeguard the fragile ecosystem.

The seedlings will replace part of the existing non-native eucalyptus woodland within a six-hectare plot at the Tangará Reserve, which sits inside the company's Mauá facility in São Paulo.