(14 May 2025)
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Niteroi, Brazil – 13 May 2025
1. Aerial shot orchard fields next to the Piratininga Lagoon
2. Workers planting trees
3. City Hall’s consultant Axel Grael with orchard workers
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4. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Axel Grael, City Hall’s Consultant on Environmental and Climate Issues:
"It is also a way for you to capture carbon and help the climate. A park like this allows the city to tackle its heat islands and provide food for people."
5. Workers planting trees
6. Pan of aerial shot of orchard fields next to the Piratininga Lagoon
7. Various of workers planting trees
8. Sign between planted trees that reads (Portuguese) “Piratininga waterfront park orchard”
9. Fruit-bearing trees
10. Biologist Alexandre Moraes walking in the park
11. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Alexandre de Moraes, biologist:
“The great benefit we have here, besides the environmental aspect, is being able to rescue fruits that are no longer commercially viable, they are jewels of our Atlantic Forest that have been lost over time due to the growth of cities. So in a public park, people will be able to enjoy this again."
12. Fruit-bearing trees
13. Various of trees
14. Workers planting trees
15. Aerial shot of the orchard park
STORYLINE:
An ambitious Brazilian urban fruit tree planting project within a green corridor around Niteroi’s Piratininga Lagoon is beginning to bear fruit.
Since April about 1,000 trees and seedlings have been planted in the Niteroi City Hall-led project that expects to plant 5,000 fruit-bearing and native trees over the coming months.
“The great benefit we have here, besides the environmental aspect, is being able to rescue fruits that are no longer commercially viable, they are jewels of our Atlantic Forest that have been lost over time due to the growth of cities," explained Niteroi city hall’s biologist Alexandre de Moraes.
Some trees are already showing signs of blossoms and fruit in Brazil’s autumn sunshine.
The project spans an 11-kilometer (6.8 mile) corridor and species being planted include java plum, genipap, Brazilian cherry, Surinam cherry, mulberry, strawberry guava, uvaia, wild cherry, cashew tree and white pepper.
The massive public orchard will allow residents of Rio’s sister city of Niteroi to pick fresh fruit straight from the trees.
AP video shot by Mario Lobão
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