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Lecture at local Agricultural Technical School

Before the "Day in the Forest" visit to the Serra da Concordia Wildlife Sanctuary students have a lecture on Environment, Biodiversity and Agroforestry at their school.

Walking to the Wildlife Sanctuary.

Students have to walk for 35 minutes to reach the protected forest areas. Until they get there the students watch the landscape and see…

in the horizon,

the mountains, the valleys, the place of the water sources, the deforestation and the empty pastures with very few cows that produce so little. They start to understand what an Ecosystem is.

The road goes on.

See what they see. Many hectares of poor land that produce very little. These hills are appropriate for reforesting and this can offer new economic possibilities for farmers.

A different environment, the forest.

Here, sweating walkers can feel the freshness of the shaded forest. If they walk slowly and silently they can hear countless birds and see many plant species.

Lecture before the visit.

Lecture before the visit to the forest and to the four Agroforestry Systems experiments and coffee plantations.

On the trail.

For them, traditional agriculture students, it the first time they see and study this kind of alternative methods of working the land.

One of the experiments. The enriched forest.

We plant bananas, coffee, other fruit trees, several species of palm trees, useful trees and hard wood trees in a planned and programed mix, that adds great economic value to these forests.

A new planted area.

In this area were plantations started 3 years ago more than 3000 seedlings were introduced. They can all be irrigated now. Please try to see bamboo poles on both sides of the road indicating new plants location.

Water. Maybe the most important.

Water. Maybe the most important part of this visit. Everybody has to be aware of the importance of the forests for the production of the water and the protection of water sources.