Word: morro
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...Morro Bay, Calif...
Standing in the red earth courtyard of a simple Brazilian homestead, Suzana Padua looks with pleasure at the grove of trees that Valdomiro ("Miro") de Castro and his wife Ireni have planted near their farmhouse and, in the distance, the chartreuse fringe of saplings growing alongside the Morro do Diabo State Park. "Look around you!" she exclaims. "The Pontal is greening...
...Pontal and its vicinity. Soon, however, the couple realized that to save the tamarins, they would have to save the forest that sheltered them--and that turned into a huge challenge. In 1995, Brazil's Landless Movement decided to resettle thousands of poor people on land bordering the Morro do Diabo park and smaller patches of forest nearby...
...implement these ideas, IPE, with the cooperation of the Sao Paulo Forestry Institute, established a tree nursery in the Morro do Diabo park and started distributing free seedlings. It also began sponsoring courses in agroforestry. Miro de Castro is a graduate of the first of these courses, and to date he has planted 6,700 trees, from fast-growing cultivars (eucalyptus, acacia) that are useful for lumber and fuel to native forest trees that produce fruit and nuts...
...thought he was crazy," Suzana admits, when Claudio suddenly went back to school to study biology. She and their three children later followed him to the University of Florida in Gainesville, where he got his doctorate, and to Morro do Diabo, where they lived for 3 1/2 years. It was there, walking along forest trails bathed in emerald light, that Suzana underwent her own metamorphosis, from urban sophisticate to champion of environmental education...