Getting to the Palm Heart of Development |
Home to 150 families at the end of a long stretch of dirt road, Guapiruvú sits astride Intervales State Park in São Paulo state. Two other state parks lie adjacent. The three reserves protect a bit of what’s left of the Atlantic Rainforest. By promoting community-based, environmentally-conscious economic development, including ecotourism, a local organization is helping to offer alternatives to predatory hunting and gathering.
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São Luís, Maranhão: Replanting the Urban Amazon Forest |
To get a bird’s eye view of the park, we have to compete with the vultures that alight amid plastic sacks in the makeshift neighborhood dump. Young men loiter across the way in front of a dilapidated shack that passes for the corner bar. The valley below shows signs of incursions by poor families like the ones who have mounted the favela that surrounds us on higher ground. Follow us on a visit to Bacanga State Park in São Luís, Maranhão.
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Amazon Film: Amazonas Film Festival |
Near the muddy waters of the Amazon River, with main events in the city's famous opera house, the Amazonas Film Festival offers a full week-long schedule which includes not only new feature films but short documentaries, videos and workshops.
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Oiapoque, Amapá: Bizarre City in the Extreme North of Brazil |
Muddy streets, crazy cabbies, cynical government billboards, aggressive peddlers, raw sewage – and culture shock just across the river in Saint George. Welcome to Oiapoque!
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Serra Verde Express: Curitiba-Paranaguá Railway |
Chief engineer João Teixeira Soares did not take his own life on February 1, 1885. He did not expect a locomotive to suddenly go hurtling off a precipice. Not that the tale of fear, loathing and suicide doesn’t ring true. The railway he designed wends its way through some of the most rugged, and striking, territory Brazil has to offer – a coastal mountain range covered by dense tropical rainforest.
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Amazon Food: Eat Smart in Northern Brazil |
The cuisine of the north draws heavily on its Indian heritage. The native diet of manioc, corn, beans, yams, peanuts, peppers, wild fruits and fresh fish is very much in evidence. Read an excerpt from the book “Eat Smart in Brazil.”
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| Môa River, Acre, by Paula Sampaio (2006 Porto Seguro Photography Prize) |
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