Month: October 2014

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people. Confucius I …

At the end of the 17th century, after nearly 200 years of hacking through the brush and forests of the interior of Brazil, Portuguese adventurers found what they were looking …

Dear reader, I have prepared a series of presentations covering the Cadeia do Espinhaço, an important complex of mountains in Eastern Brazil - which shelters several biomes of formidable biodiversity …

Maraú Latitude: 14° 06' 10.0'' S Longitude: 39° 00' 54.0'' W Maraúis a short distance from Itacaré by dirt road. The travelling time though is unpredictable for it will depend …

 Itacaré Latitude: 14° 16' 36'' S Longitude: 38° 59' 56'' W “Itacaré is a town in the Costa do Cacau (Cocoa Coast) of the state of Bahia in Brazil, south …

 Costa do Cacau Bahia INTRODUCTION Bahia is a most important tourist center in the Northeast and the second in the country. It preserves, virtually intact, the landscape seen by the …

Dear viewer, Brazil has six very large geographic ecoregions (Atlantic Rainforest, Amazon Rainforest, Cerrado, Caatinga, Pampa and Pantanal. These ecoregions are called BIOME. This presentation covers the sandbank environment called …

Dear viewer, A forest is a living laboratory where the fauna and flora are under a permanent and formidable test of survival. In fact, it is sustained by a fragile …