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I'm ready and there's a cab waiting for me!
Why are you calling me now?
Calm down, Isabela. We'll get there!
Please come and get me.
That's what I would say to her.
Please, come and get me! Come here!
Ladies and gentleman. Let's do work on something interisting?
Our attention is related to our body condition.
Exactly!
I don't know what I meant with that, but that's what I said.
Yeah!
Shall we wake up?
To do that, let's clap our hands.
Yeah! Can you pretend a little more?
You at least pretend that you're enjoying!
If you're listening to it, clap your hand!
Clap your hands! Clap it!
Yeah! That's it!
Now, let's shout!
Ladies and gentleman, let's move to our next speaker.
Bumpy! Olímpio, our next speaker,
it's very interesting for you.
For me?
Yes, she very important for you!
Is it Giuliana again?
No...
Oh my god, no one deserves that.
No, no!
It's not Juliana!
It's Simone Balzarian.
Olímpio, she's an expert in forest restauration.
But why would this be of my interest?
Wow, Olímpio.
Ok, ladies and gentleman.
I introduce you Simone Balzarian!
Simone Balzarian “Forests and ecological networks reconstruction”
Welcome.
Good afternoon! Is everybody listening to me?
Tomorrow is the International Day of Biodiversity.
And we're here to celebrate the biodiversity of the Atlantic Forest,
here, at “Live the Forest”.
I...
I don't have to say how important is the Atlantic Forest is.
I'm not going to talk about the degradation question.
Or about it's risks.
I think that we already know how much we have destroyed.
But, maybe, just a few of you know how difficult is to restore a forest.
We have to handle it whith care,
to make it proceed.
Even tough, I'm pleased to say that the number of projects
to restore the atlantic forest only incresed.
The Atlantic Forest is the richest bioma in Latin America.
And the state of Sao Paulo is worried about it.
It has public policy,
to regulate the plantation of the native forests.
These initiatives has many origins:
Since organiozational entities to ONGs,
that are worried about planting trees on forests.
There are also those public politics,
that restore degradeted riparian.
Universities are developing restauration techniques,
based in theories.
Schools that, through the ambiental education, plant trees with their students.
So I see this army of people,
These caterers, healing this wound.
I can even imagine that,
machines working togheter with humans to heal this wound.
But I ask myself: “Is the Atlantic Forest strong enough to recover?”
Are you tired to see the Atlantic Forest reborn,
after beign burned and devastated?
How many time have we heard farmers and caboclos saying:
“God damn it, my land is dirty!”.
“It makes me cut, cut and cut...”.
But the problem is that those land parts do never return. They stabilize.
They are not capable of regenerate themselves.
Even that the seed reachs the ground,
it will be so infertile that it won't germinate.
In the worst case, there's not even a seed.
So, forests restauration is an intentional practising.
These labor workers, they are able to gather a lot of flavor from the source,
to give a little push,
to make the forest regenerate.
I came here to tell you how my history is connected to the Atlantic Forest.
And how I discovered to restore it as a favorable scenario
to discuss many subjects.
That way, we could do something if it has some time left.
Restore forests and plant trees is not a common action to us.
It doens't matter that if it's done individually or with a group,
even in your garden.
We have to do that to harmonize ourselves with our planet.
I was born...
I was born in Sao Paulo, close to the Atlantic Forest.
I had the privilege to meet one “tiê-sangue”,
and play with guarupuvu chips when I was seven years old.
In that time, I had an inspiration for the forests and trees,
that helped me to pick some fruits.
And I've always admired the Atlantic Forest animals.
As a teenager, in generation ECO-92,
I wanted to make a difference.
I've always had, inside of me, a will to change the world.
And save the planet.
When I choose my career,
I didn't know how to work with my ideals.
College is a time to embrace knowledge,
and I decided to study biology.
I started the course and learned a lot.
I thank my teachers,
to be able to walk around the Atlantic Forest and recognize all the animals.
But, even with a graduation on biology, I wanted more.
I wanted to meet people like myself.
I wanted to know how teach conservation of nature to men.
I believe that, we can only make the difference toghether.
And, no with no one.
Thanks to the agriculture, a realized a stage.
That is very important to handle with nature,
it was by the farmers, in this great school,
that this planting potencial could contribute to the biodiversity.
So, I decided to join those popular movements.
I had an internship in the farmers movement.
I had a glimpseof the great difference on the organized communities,
with communicative processes already stablished,
we can do a lot more.
When people work toghether,
they work faster,
they do not waste work and food,
having more strenght to work for the enviroment.
And then...
When I got my first job,
I could do both things.
I planted trees in farm communities.
Here we have a few pictures of restauration of the reparian forests,
in settlements, enabling farmers to colect seeds,
plating trees, how to recover...
The responsible for that was the Departament of Eviroment.
It choose settlements for being organized communities.
One of the settlements that I worked,
the Sumare one,
had recovered many riparian forests and three local settlementes,
almost doubling the forest range of Sumare.
This is the most degradated region of Piracicaba district.
The farmers expanded a protection region of 30 m² to 40 m².
This proves that the regular farmer does not see the forest as barrier.
They know that the forest preserve it's water,
because they know we're running out of water.
Some people of the General Plateau say,
that the agriculture producers don't want the forests.
But they know that their production gets better,
and that their soil gets better too.
Even with the changing proposal on the forest code,
wich says that the farmers are responsible for the deforestation,
I have a proof that many farmers don't think like that.
The most important thing on this project was:
The traditional farmer,
who only thinks about planting rice and beans,
begin to incorporate the forest again.
I realize that, in those projects, the most important thing,
is the rescue of the conection between the forest and the farmer.
That way, we remember that water is important.
That abundance exists.
And at the same time...
My...
My biologist sense has reborn.
And I asked myself if these planted trees were becoming forests.
I wanted to know, if those trees that we used to plant,
were recognized by the animals as an habitat.
If we were recovering the Atlantic Forest.
But we didn't know if the forest was reconstructing itself.
So, I developed my these.
And got the cientific research,
just to understand what we were doing,
and to put indicators at the restored regions of the Atlantic Forest.
To make a forest live forever,
to know if it was restored, it needs to enter into the regeneration circle.
It has give it's offspring.
To make this happen, the plants must reproduce themselves.
I'm gonna waste two minutes to talk about plants sex.
Plants are enable to move for reproduction.
They need help, and the animals do that.
Then, they produce *** structures,
that smell good and have a good flavor.
Sweet and juicy,
to make the animals get closer.
The flowers are food for the animals.
Butterflies, bees and other insects.
And then, it visits another flowers.
When the animal is visiting the plant,
In this processes, the gamete is carryed to the plant's ovule.
it ends up, accidentaly carrying the male gamets.
But, of course, another one from the same species.
And then, when the ovule and pollen gather, a seed is fertilized.
A new plant is beign generated.
I choose this nature perspective to show
this ecological precesses in the restored areas.
I should know if the pollination was happening in that trees,
to know if we were really restoring the forests.
As 80% of species in the tropical forests needs
a lot of pollinators to reproduce,
as most of the pollinators visit plats to collect their food,
the plants and the pollinators can be seen as a network.
A networking web.
Through the network,
I'm able the avaliate the most important properties of the community.
How much it is organized,
or how complex it is.
If it has more complex interations,
as our societies.
Six billion people is not enough,
if we don't know how to comunicate with each other,
if we don't share information,
with don't seek motivation.
It is through the biological interactions that the biodiversity grows.
It's like if the nature itself choose
wich species are going to survive or not.
And then, when we plant a tree,
we can't only see an individual there.
There's a lot of interactions,
that can bring biodiversity back.
And I can say, with all my study,
that I was able to understand a little more of planting trees,
and how this brings the pollinators back.
But not all of them.
We still trying to do that,
and let the forest came back on its own.
The Atlantic Forest is not only a tree.
The Atlantic Forest is made of herbs and many kinds of trees,
and animals. Even the man.
We're all connected.
And we have to take the responsibility of
every action has its consequence.
Not only on our bioma, but all.
Besides nature beign very complicated,
we can communicate with it very easily.
We only have to be aware that biodiversity exists.
We only have to live toghether with the forest.
Not only on the woods or the riparian forests.
As all the speakers say, we all coexist.
Now I'm looking to the big cities,
just to remember the citizen that the forest is not far from them.
And he does not have to go to Amazonia to feel it.
He can feel that, just by looking inside of their souls.
Because, again, everything is connected.
Even the foods we choose.
The Atlantic Forest is so diverse.
There's not only rice and beans to eat.
Or grass.
And then, once we're toghether,
mobilized,
and organized,
we motivate ourselves to plant those trees.
To form beatiful forests.
Because, the forest, to be restored,
it have to be restored first inside the mankind heart.
I ask you a question:
How do you contribute to prosperity of the Atlantic Forest?
Thank you for your attention.