(23 May 2023)
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 22 May 2023
1. Christ the Redeemer and Guanabara bay viewed from the Tijuca National Park
HEADLINE: Researchers try to protect Brazil’s Atlantic Forest
2. AERIAL of Taxas Canal
3. Alligators at Taxas Canal
4. Turtle in the water
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Itu, Brazil - 20 May 2023
5. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Rafael Fernandes, Forest restoration manager for the nonprofict SOS Mata Atlantica:
“The Atlantic Forest is probably one of the most biodiverse spaces in the world. There are many things that we don't know yet. And we always hear about species that were found in the Atlantic Forest.”
6. AERIAL of Forestry Experiments Center from environmental nonprofit SOS Mata Atlantica ++MUTE++
ANNOTATION: Atlantic Forest has been intensively devastated, with only 24% of its forest left.
7. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Rafael Fernandes, Forest restoration manager for the nonprofict SOS Mata Atlantica:
“And destroying all of this before even knowing it is very sad. And our fight is exactly reverse this scenario.”
8. Fernandes shows visitors how to plant the tree
9. Visitors preparing the soil and planting the tree
10. Visitors at plant nursery
11. Kids looking plants with a magnifier
12. Seeds germinating
ANNOTATION: The nonprofit SOS Mata Atlantica transformed a devastated coffee farm in a Forestry Experiments Center.
ANNOTATION: It has capacity to produce 750 thousand Atlantic Forest seedlings.
13. Laura Coraline with her parents around a tree they had just planted
14. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Laura Coraline, 5-year-old with her mother Carolina Coraline:
“First, I saw ‘baby’ plants, then I saw ‘children’ plants, and ‘adolescent’ plants, like this one. And now in the forest there are ‘adult’ plants.”
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 22 May 2023
15. Guanabara bay and Sugar Loaf
16. Researcger Roched Seba treating a capuchin monkey
17. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Roched Seba, 37-year-old, director of Vida Livre Institute:
“We live in a country that is mega biodiverse and in a city that is also mega biodiverse. And that is wealth, that is luck, that is a privilege to live in such a place and it is our duty to take care of it.”
18. Ipanema beach viewed from Tijuca National Forest
STORYLINE:
Brazil's Atlantic Forest has been intensively devastated, with only 24% of its forest left, but now researchers are trying to protect it.
Brazil’s natural beauty is reflected in the country’s environment, populated by a vast array of plant and animal life surrounding urban environments like in Rio de Janeiro, a biodiversity unique to the South American country.
In Rio de Janeiro, researchers and scientists devote their professional lives looking for ways to preserve the natural treasure and educating the public about the rich variety surrounding them every day.
Rio de Janeiro is part of Atlantic Forest biome, or ‘Mata Atlantica,’ as it’s known in Brazil, which encompasses 17 Brazilian states and is one of the most biodiverse spaces in the world.
It is where about 70% of the Brazil’s population live and has been intensively devastated, with only 24% of its forest left.
Residents of Brazil's largest metropolis, Sao Paulo, visited a reforested area of the Atlantic Forest ahead of International Biodiversity Day.
In the city of Itu, 100 kilometers from Sao Paulo, an old cattle and coffee farm gave space to a Forestry Experiments Center run by the environmental nonprofit SOS ‘Mata Atlantica’.
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