Brazilian environmentalist tracks native species to reenter in the cities
Environmentalist Ricardo Cardim grew up in a typical apartment of São Paulo, between the concrete and asphalt of one of the largest cities in the world. Still, the sustainable planet, he fell in love with plants and their new project merges, exactly, these his two passions: the Green and the cityRicardo tracks endangered species, like the Toucan-tongue, manacazinho-of-field or araçá, embaúba, angico-white, Palm-jussara and aroeira-pimenteira and reinsert them in the life of cities. "I'm fascinated by the species of Cerrado and Atlantic forest and, even then, I couldn't understand why the trees of São Paulo had nothing to do with what I studied and admired," says Ricardo Cardim to sustainable planet.In 2007, Ricardo has created a blog that feeds until today, the Trees of São Paulo, where botanical curiosities history placed metropolis and tries to defend Brazilian biodiversity.In 2009, when it was master at the University of São Paulo (USP), Ricardo decided to clean up and explore an abandoned area on campus. "I discovered there a living museum, a Cerrado remnant landscape, with bushes, fruit trees and rare flowers. I found this on another ground vegetation in Jaguaré ", stresses the responsible. Ricardo was after after State officials to get attention to the sites, such as conservation reserves.The next step was to take the plants almost extinct, play them in nursery and applied in green roofs and walls of their sustainable landscaping company, Sky Garden. "It was the way I found to get my aim in practice: rescue our original plant diversity in urban centers" the next step is to open a shop to sell and propagate the value of these treasures.
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