Questions, answered

MORFO makes restoration projects viable. We are the bridge between capital and the ground: we turn degraded land into a project a funder can back and an operator can execute. We read the land to take the risk out of it, coordinate the work through a network of local operators, and commit to the result in the contract.

Native species suited to the site, more than 20 per project, drawn from a catalog of 490 native species across the Amazon, Cerrado, and Atlantic Forest. Native species are what make the forest resilient and self-sustaining, so the result holds and belongs to the biome it grows in.

No method works everywhere. For each area we choose what delivers the most at the best cost, then combine drone seeding, mechanical, direct seeding, assisted natural regeneration, and seedlings. Drones bring speed and reach, but technology does not replace people on the ground.

Restoration turns stuck land into a project that is defensible, funded, and delivered. MORFO Ri computes the cost, the carbon curve, and a defensible breakeven, so the project is decidable and financeable before you commit. We choose methods that bring the cost down, structure the project so it passes auction and co-investment validation, and back the outcome with a guarantee an auditor or a funder can rely on.

Send us your land, with a shapefile if you have one. MORFO Ri runs a remote pre-analysis: it reads the land on 21 data layers and stratifies it zone by zone, then returns a go or no-go with a costed scope. You get the read back in a few business days, free and with no commitment.

We commit to ecological targets in the contract and price that commitment. MORFO Ri is what lets us set a defensible number before planting. We track the result until the targets are met, on the execution we coordinate.

Adaptive management kicks in: we adjust the work on the ground and carry corrective action at our cost until the contracted targets are met. The guarantee holds until then.

From Rio de Janeiro and Montpellier, across three biomes, the Amazon, Cerrado, and Atlantic Forest, in Brazil and French Guiana, across tropical and subtropical zones.

A restoration project runs over years, not months. The first read comes back in days, the plan follows, then planting in the right season, and monitoring against the contracted targets for years after. Active maintenance runs about three years, until the canopy starts closing.

Active maintenance runs for three years, and it gets lighter each year. Year one carries invasive control at three, six, nine and twelve months, with high-resolution drone passes to catch regrowth early. Years two and three move to three or four mowing rounds a year plus monitoring and targeted corrections. After that, monitoring continues by drone and satellite for carbon reporting. The aim is canopy closure by year three or four, when the system starts holding back invasives on its own. The exact years and frequency sit in the contract, adjusted to what the field diagnostic finds.

We adapt the methodology. There are several ways to hold back invasive grass without chemicals, from mowing to clearing around each seedling to a dense pioneer cover that shades it out, and the right mix depends on the area. Best discussed with our technical team on your specific case.

It comes in two parts. The analysis is a fixed fee for your area, agreed before we start, so you are never billed by the day. What comes after is priced from the plan we build, method by method and area by area, which is why taking land out of the plan lowers your bill instead of shrinking the study. And the first read, before either of those, is free.

The data and the credits are yours. We produce the analysis, the plan and the evidence from the field, and the outputs for your area belong to you. What we keep is the right to use the measurements, anonymised, to keep improving our models, which is what makes the next analysis sharper than the last. Nothing that identifies your area goes public without your written go-ahead.

T0 is the standardised starting point, measured by drone at 0.3 to 3 cm per pixel plus laboratory soil analysis, dated and geolocated. Without it, no later measurement proves anything, which is the honest reason the field diagnostic exists.

Direct seeding covers large areas fast. Seedlings cost more in labour, nurseries and logistics. Most plans are hybrid: seedlings on the sensitive areas and for the species that need them, seeds for the rest.

On projects designed for it, yes, through assisted natural regeneration and planting under a recognised methodology. MORFO reads the land, models the credit output and its timing before the first tree, and runs the monitoring the claim needs. Whether it pencils depends on the land and the cost per tonne, which the analysis tells you.

The model works best from around 50 hectares, with real economies of scale above 500. Smaller areas are considered case by case, for pilots and research plots. Send the land through the diagnostic and we will say.

MORFO builds its own analysis and coordinates the works, so MORFO answers for the read and the result. It reads the land to plan only the work it needs, and it writes the target into the contract and fixes a miss at its own cost. What you get is a result you can finance and defend.

Yes, for serious projects. Talk to the team through the contact page and we will arrange it around the field calendar.

The best route is Pascal Asselin, the CEO, on LinkedIn.

Sometimes. Open roles are posted on our LinkedIn. If there is a fit, reach out there.

They are set per area, from what the diagnostic finds, and written into the contract, rather than as one site-wide number. Ask us for the parameters on your area.

It depends on where the failures sit, not only how many. Failures spread across the area are left to fill in; failures clustered in one place trigger replanting, at MORFO's cost inside the agreed scope.

Mechanical control first, targeted chemical only where it is needed, within a stated window set from the diagnostic.

Qualified local operators, selected and coordinated by MORFO and executing under MORFO's protocols. MORFO stays the single interlocutor and answers for the result by contract.

MORFO coordinates a network of local operators who bring the crews and equipment, under MORFO's protocols and quality control. This is how the field work scales across biomes without owning land or machinery.

MORFO is Franco-Brazilian: a Brazilian technical team and field coordination in Brazil, with offices in Rio de Janeiro and Montpellier. It started in French Guiana in 2021 and now works across the Amazon, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest.

Fire, extreme drought and comparable events are treated as loss events, handled under the contract's loss-event terms rather than the performance guarantee.