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...Paulo 17.8 million...
That's a remarkable statement, since the Pontal, a once heavily forested area in the far west of Sao Paulo State, has long been devastated by logging and ranching. But nature is making a comeback in this impoverished region, thanks largely to the Instituto de Pesquisas Ecologicas (Institute for Ecological Research), an organization co-founded in 1992 by Padua and her husband Claudio, a primatologist at the University of Brasilia. IPE's mission is as simple as it is ambitious: to protect--and insofar as possible--reconnect the last precious remnants of the Mata Atlantica, the great forest that once...
...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...
...Washington Consensus might have worked better had Washington preached open democracy as earnestly as open markets. In giant Sao Paulo, Lula's home base, single mother Janecleide Batista, 24, lost her job as a telephone operator when her company was sold to a foreign firm. Now she lives in a squatters' shack on a small vacant lot with eight other families. To her, free-market reforms mean that Brazil's World Cup-champion soccer team "gets free new cars, while we sit here on the street and get nothing." The Bush bailouts may buy time, but they...
...Bono's crusade for African debt relief and the continent's recovery [March 4]. Bono may not save the world, but his efforts are worthwhile. While we spend billions on warfare, people are dying of famine. It is time to value life. LUIZ VALERIO DE PAULA TRINDADE Sao Paulo, Brazil...