Black People Saved This Brazilian Rainforest
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 19 May 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Cascading waterfalls call the lush trees surrounding Rio de Janeiro’s most important rainforest home. But the woodland wouldn’t be the paradise it is today without the lifesaving seedlings our people planted.
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| 1:00.3 | Cascading waterfalls called the lush trees surrounding Rio de Janeiro's most important rainforests home. |
| 1:08.0 | But the woodland wouldn't be the paradise it is today without the life-saving seedlings |
| 1:13.6 | our people planted. This is two-minute black history. What you didn't learn in school. |
| 1:22.5 | The sun cut through the tree's canopies, beaming down with vigor to rest on their shoulders. |
| 1:29.0 | They preserved, likely with aching backs for over a decade, planting seeds that would bloom |
| 1:35.0 | for future generations of our people. |
| 1:39.8 | Elaterio, Castanio, Manuel, Matthias, Leopoldo, and Maria spent 13 years in the 1860s, planting more than 100,000 |
| 1:50.7 | seedlings to preserve one of the largest urban greenscapes in the world, Brazil's Chejuka |
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