‘Crazy’ tree planter greening Sao Paulo concrete jungle • FRANCE 24 English
In just over two decades, Brazilian Helio da Silva has single-handedly planted about 40,000 trees in the urban jungle that is Sao Paulo. The former food industry executive says he was called “crazy” when he started his quest to transform what used to be a hangout for drug users between two busy avenues. Today, there stands the Tiquatira Park with thousands of trees of 160 species stretched over 3.2 kilometers (two miles) long and 100 meters (328 feet) wide.
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45 comments
cities designed and maintained by robots
Hello fellow country people… Plant as many damn trees as possible. Also allow vegetables to go to seed.. that’s magical not Hollyweird…..
We need more crazy tree planters in this world.
Yess yess! Finland is all forest and lakes . Each tree has been planted by Finnish citizens, citizens of a small arctic nation where the snow cover the landscape every year . They love to save the world without beiing heroes.
What a hero!
That kiss at the end said it all!
Bless you Helio da Silva.
This man makes me feel more proud of my people.
Where I live, you need permission to plant trees in urban areas and take care of them for life. I'll check if there's a way to plant without needing licenses, etc. Wonderful work by this sir. 🌳🌳🌳
Saving us all. ❤
Come on bro!!!!
You tell me how a city just lets a man plant 40k trees? It speaks more about the lack of service or care about the city from the officials.
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Imagine… 1 man did this. If every citizen only planter 10trees we wouldnt even have all the problems in the first place
One single dude pulled this off. Why didnt the government do this in th first place? Ridiculous.
Brabo
This is amazing. Thank you for reporting on such an uplifting story.
Bless you
His name actually means Forest
So how many trees did Greta fake activist plant ?? 😂
My thank you to the Man.❤
Hopefully, he didn't plant 1 single species of trees or else they'll die
The greatest hero of our time
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I helped
He’s literally built a green city, all by himself! 😲
Now france also ?? First Somalia , then indian next pakistan now france?? After this what Arab guy ?
Awesome. Good on him.
That's what most left wing (or any) people should do instead complaining about specific politics.
Very nice
Eco Infill, as I like to call this, is existential to stopping climate change. A natural landscape, or one with most biome properties, shapes and defines regional climate. Kill the land, pave it over or sterilize it with industrial agriculture and you kill our climate. Giant farms force the population onto marginal land or into forest, which depletes and erodes soil fertility, the stuff that processes water, co2 and recycles nutrients, while they are driven to destitution.
Wow this man’s a saviour ❤
This man is a hero!!!
Great! Good job!
We need far away more trees and less vehicles in our cities! ; )
Very good.
Bravo sir! When humanity are eradicating trees from the world to pave way for more cities.
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Doesn’t say how he got the land?
Yes humans can be caretakers of land, and given time will make it better than nature alone.
Earth will respect you for that! Salute 🫡 🌎
1 Man > Entire Brazil Government
Hero
I like it I'm doing it on my land
Exemplar
06-10-2024
THE LORD TOLD ME:" CONTINUE DOING THE WELL AND SPREADING THE LOVE "!!!
AMÉM!!!
❤❤❤❤❤❤BRASIL 🥰 😍 🥰 😍 🥰 😍 🥰