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Martire faced similar hard luck, falling to Stanford’s No. 80 Story Tweedie-Yates 6-2, 7-5 in the opening round before losing a back draw match to Denver’s Suzana Maskovic in three sets?...
...already been so rapaciously deforested that less than 2% of its native tree cover remained. So when the landless settled next to the remnants of forest, Claudio feared they would chop down the trees for fuel and lumber and destroy animal populations through hunting. Instead, when he and Suzana began to talk with local leaders, they found allies rather than enemies. The landless, they found, were in desperate need of almost everything, including wood. Yet they were willing to try to fill that need in ways that were not environmentally ruinous...
What evolved was a collaboration that benefited not only settlers but the forest and animals that lived there as well. "Whenever we came up with ideas, people were willing to try them," says Suzana. One IPE plan called for planting trees around forested tracts, creating an abraco ao verde (literally, green hug) to ward off assaults by cattle, fires and windstorms. Another envisioned linking forest fragments with broad corridors of trees, along which jaguars, tapir and tamarins could travel...
...Paduas, working with farmers like Miro validates the career switch Claudio made 24 years ago, shortly after turning 30. At the time he was the financial director of a pharmaceutical firm in Rio de Janeiro, and Suzana, then 27, was working as a designer and interior decorator. One day Claudio arrived home and announced that he wanted to work with nature. "Would you prefer a husband who's rich and miserable," he asked Suzana, "or one who's poor but happy...
...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...