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5 February 2026 Event, News

Study Tour 2026: Restoring the Hileia Baiana.

Every tree grows from a seed—and every legacy grows from a dream. In the first cycle of the FASB Program, we laid the foundation for work built with communities.

Consolidated by the second cycle, FASB has been strengthening its roots and continuing its networking, with an even broader mission to restore biodiversity by connecting landscapes and generating decades of value for the standing forest.

The legacy of the FASB naturally leads us to envision new horizons.

Although we still have questions to answer, we already have a vision that is beginning to take shape.

The Hileia Baiana, with its dense tropical forest rich in biodiversity, is a territory that offers possibilities for generating broader impacts, built step by step, with responsibility and dialogue.

Participe do Study Tour 2026!

Come and enjoy a unique experience of growth and learning in landscape transformation through forest restoration by joining this exclusive group!

Get your early birds tickects!

Cost per participant: U$475,00 (four hundred and seventy-five dollars)
Dead line: 3 April 2026 3 April 2026
After 3 April, the Ticket cost will be U$575,00

As this is a study trip, the same group will participate in all activities on the programme, including travel by van, accommodation, meals and group dynamics, promoting strong networking and knowledge exchange among all participants.

What is included in the event?

Accommodation in a single room in a hotel or guesthouse in Porto Seguro, Teixeira de Freitas and Medeiros Neto;
Transportation for travel according to the event schedule;
Exclusive vehicle for transporting luggage;
Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner;
Visits and activities guided by iNovaland's national and international management and technical teams;
Simultaneous translation Portuguese – English – Portuguese;
Individual accident insurance.

The cost does not include round-trip travel from the participant's city of origin to Porto Seguro, expenses not mentioned in the event agenda, extra consumption at hotels (minibar, room service and laundry) and dinner on 3 June in Porto Seguro.

Secondary tree of the Vinhático species from the Atlantic Forest, territory covered by the FASB Programme in the Hileia Baiana.

The event

The Study Tour is an invitation to revisit the history of FASB, celebrate achievements, and recognise the protagonists of this story.

It is also a time to look ahead, share intentions and explore, with partners, what can be born when we combine experience, collaboration and the desire to restore new territories.

On this study trip, we will celebrate what has already blossomed and make room to discover together what else can be born to rejuvenate the Hileia Baiana.

The best stories are those written by the experiences we live.

Felipe Rocha, Field Officer at iNovaland, planting trees as part of the Corredor Alcoprado Project, Bahia, Brazil.

Felipe Rocha, Field Officer iNovaland em monitoramento do plantio de mudas de árvores nativas da Mata Atlântica no Projeto Fábio Santos, municíío de Teixeira de Freitas, Bahia, Brasil.

The experience

We will experience first-hand the technical capabilities and quality of FASB and the catalytic connections of scalable environmental restoration projects carried out with the engagement of diverse audiences. The Study Tour 2026 programme will promote activities that are as close as possible to what an environmental restoration process involves, with the engagement of project developers, institutions, investors and public authorities.

Aerial view of the ecological corridor in Hileia Baiana, municipality of Teixeira de Freitas, Bahia/Brazil.

Recognised impact

And we will have an exclusive moment to celebrate the impacts of the FASB Programme – in all its stages of development – achieved through the leadership and commitment of communities and made possible by investors who believe in the socio-environmental power of landscape restoration.

Watch the transformation of the landscape of forest restoration intended for SAF (Agroforestry Systems) at the Anauá Nursery, part of the FASB Programme, in the municipality of Teixeira de Freitas.

Before: 2023 / After: 2026.

The learning

Participants in the 2026 Study Tour will learn first-hand about iNovaland's experience and how it operates in line with the most rigorous standards of social and environmental integrity.

Together, we will present and explore possibilities for establishing the expansion of the territorial landscape restoration activities to the Hileia Baiana region as a class of scalable and sustainable assets.

We will celebrate what has already blossomed and we will make room to discover together what can still be done to rejuvenate the Hileia Baiana.

The photo on the right is from the Connecting Landscapes Project in the Alegria Nova Indigenous Community, developed by the Natureza Bela Environmental Group.

The place

The Study Tour 2026 will begin in the municipality of Porto Seguro, with visits to projects in the municipalities of Teixeira de Freitas and Medeiros Neto, all in the southern and extreme south of Bahia. These are areas that belong to the Atlantic Forest cover called Hileia Baiana.

Hileia Baiana

Hileia Baiana is the name given to the Atlantic Forest of Tabuleiro, which originally covered an area stretching from the south of the state of Bahia to the north of the state of Espírito Santo.

Among the phytophysiognomies of the Atlantic Forest, some have a set of regional and territorial characteristics that are quite unique and peculiar, as is the case of the Hileia Baiana. One of the phytogeographic regions of the Atlantic Forest, the Hileia Baiana was one of the last to be deforested on a large scale, having lost most of its forest cover between the 1960s and 1980s.

It has a unique and highly diverse biota with high levels of endemism and influence from previous connections with the Amazon biome. The biodiversity present in the forests
The territory's geographical diversity, combined with its cultural diversity, makes it unique in terms of forestry for economic development associated with the conservation and enhancement of forest diversity. Its location and the landscape of the plateaus have favoured human occupation and the development of cities throughout Brazil's history.

And it is in this territory that the FASB Programme has been expanding its projects. Learn more about this region in the following slide show:

The agenda

The programme includes classroom and field activities with light walks and contact with communities, project developers, national and international experts from iNovaland, non-governmental organisations, private companies, investors and traditional communities in the surrounding area.