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Photos: World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz Visits Brazil
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Journalists are encouraged to use these images in their reports; any use should include copyright to the World Bank and credit the photographer. Right click and Save Target As to download high resolution images where available. | More Photos: Day One | Day Two | Day Five | Day Six |  | THE AMAZON [HI-RES]
Lucinildo Pereira da Silva with "abobora" at the Cristo Rei farm.
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz visited the Cristo Rei farm which adopts sustainable practices in the Amazon region to produce corn, soy, rice, beans, pumpkins, tropical fruits and watermelons. The Cristo Rei farm is on the controversial BR163 highway. The lands are the property of "gauchos", Elio Pereira, 46, Dercio Pereira, 40, and Emerson Pereira, 25.
Cristo Rei Farm | Maguari Cmmunity | | Photo: World Bank/Carlos Silva |
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Elio Pereira, co-owner of the Cristo Rei family farm, in the corn field.
Photo: © World Bank / Carlos Silva
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Elio Pereira, co-owner of the Cristo Rei family farm on the corn harvester.
Photo: © World Bank / Carlos Silva
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Cupuaçú fruit produced at the Pereira family's farm. The Cupuaçú fruit has been a primary food source in the Rainforest for indigenous peoples and other traditional communities for generations. The fruit is increasingly being exported to other regions of Brazil and the world for juice, ice cream and sweets.
Photo: © World Bank / Carlos Silva
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Dercio Pereira, co-owner of the Cristo Rei family farm, with a watermelon.
Photo: © World Bank / Carlos Silva
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World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz tastes the Cupuaçú fruit, known for its creamy exotic tasting pulp.
Photo: © World Bank / Carlos Silva
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World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz with Elio Pereira, co-owner of the Cristo Rei family farm, discuss the challenges of farming rice and corn in the region.
Photo: © World Bank / Carlos Silva
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Artisan handbag products made of latex, now "couro vegetal", are displayed and sold in the Maguari community. The maguari community is on the edge of the River Tapajós, in the National Forest of Tapajós (FLONA). One of the biggest ecological reserves in the Amazon.
Photo: © World Bank / Tamara Saré
 Pilot Forest Resources Management Project (PROMANEJO)
Pilot Program Extractive Reserves Project (RESEX)
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Maguari community members follow an open meeting of World Bank President Wolfowitz with officials of the Government's environmental agency. The Maguari community is on the edge of the River Tapajós, in the National Forest of Tapajós (FLONA). One of the biggest ecological reserves in the Amazon.
Photo: © World Bank / Tamara Saré
Pilot Forest Resources Management Project (PROMANEJO)
Pilot Program Extractive Reserves Project (RESEX)
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World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz visited the Maguari Indian community in Brazil's Tapajós National Forest, one of the biggest natural parks and nature reserves in the Amazon region. In the photo, children of the community attend school.
Photo: © World Bank / Tamara Saré
Pilot Forest Resources Management Project (PROMANEJO)
Pilot Program Extractive Reserves Project (RESEX)
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World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz attends a presentation of a group of technicians from IBAMA about the production activities in FLONA. The maguari community is on the edge of the River Tapajós, in the National Forest of Tapajós (FLONA). One of the biggest ecological reserves in the Amazon.
Photo: © World Bank / Tamara Saré
Pilot Forest Resources Management Project (PROMANEJO)
Pilot Program Extractive Reserves Project (RESEX)
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Manoel de Souza, from the municipality of Pini, in the Tapajos National Forest, is a beneficiary of the PPG7-supported project (PROMANEJO) and a success story.
“We use wood from dead trees in the forest to make various types of products, especially furniture (stools, tables, decorative pieces). We were already working with wood before, but the project provided training for us to improve our technique and products. For one year we have been managing the business on our own and no longer need project money. We are selling our products in S. Paulo and it’s going very well. We have a contract with Tok& Stok (furniture store). In November they ordered 200 pieces from us. Things are going well.”
Photo: © World Bank / Elena Serrano
Pilot Forest Resources Management Project (PROMANEJO)
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Some of the Maguari community's diverse forest products, sustainably made from seeds, wood and local fruit. Andiroba oil and beads are produced by community women using nuts from local trees. The oils are sold to the cosmetic industry.
Photo: © World Bank / Tamara Saré
Pilot Forest Resources Management Project (PROMANEJO)
Pilot Program Extractive Reserves Project (RESEX)
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Maria das Dores(center), 75, from the Maguari village, introduced the Andiroba oil process to community women. Asked by World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz how things have changed in the Amazon,
"Yes, they certainly have changed…This used to be all forest and we would hunt deer and other animals. I myself hunted a lot of them”…now it is forbidden…
Photo: © World Bank / Elena Serrano
Pilot Forest Resources Management Project (PROMANEJO)
Pilot Program Extractive Reserves Project (RESEX)
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Alcino Feitosa, rubber tapper, shows the tools he uses to “bleed” the rubber tree.
Photo: © World Bank / Elena Serrano
Pilot Forest Resources Management Project (PROMANEJO)
Pilot Program Extractive Reserves Project (RESEX)
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World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz receives explanations about the latex extraction process. The maguari community is on the edge of the River Tapajós, in the National Forest of Tapajós (FLONA). One of the biggest ecological reserves in the Amazon.
Photo: © World Bank / Tamara Saré
Pilot Forest Resources Management Project (PROMANEJO)
Pilot Program Extractive Reserves Project (RESEX)
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One of the Maguari community's most successful products is the "green leather" made from natural rubber extracted by hand in the forest. The nature-friendly leather can replace animal leather in several applications. In the photo, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz, spreads latex rubber on drying drums for manufacture of leather plaques at the community workshop.
Photo: © World Bank / Tamara Saré
Pilot Forest Resources Management Project (PROMANEJO)
Pilot Program Extractive Reserves Project (RESEX)
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