Cellist James Barralet plays Bach to support the tree that gave voice to the strings.

Over 14,000 saplings of the endangered pernambuco tree have been distributed from our nursery at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, and planted at various locations on the Atlantic coast.

British actor Miriam Margolyes has joined an Indigenous leader and two London orchestras to bring out a stirring new video of a traditional Indigenous song.

With the support of the global classical music community, master bow-maker and ecologist Marco Raposo is growing 50,000 saplings to distribute to small-scale farmers, in order to preserve the future of classical music and regenerate the Atlantic Forest.

As musicians have known for centuries, the best wood for violin bows comes from the pau-brasil tree, the tree that Brazil is named after. It has the perfect strength, flexibility and resonance, and nothing else sounds quite right.

But the trees are endangered following centuries of deforestation.