Junior Scientists Restoring Brazil's Rainforest

482 Donations from 355 Donors:

Project Personnel

Robin Le Breton - Director, Iracambi Research Center

Champion rally driver, polyglot, and policy expert, Robin worked on five continents with the World Bank before setting up a sustainable farm in Brazil's Atlantic Forest. After working with the local community to establish a new county (and with it, funding for schools health care and communications,) he now runs the Iracambi Research Center reconciling the needs of forests and forest people.

Fernanda Freitas Dias - Science teacher

Fernanda has been a fan of the rainforest ever since she participated in Iracambis first environmental ed. program in 2001 -.when there was no such program in any public school in the state. At our first planning meeting,she plunged unhesitatingly into the river to practice water monitoring, she faces our muddy roads on her motorbike with equanimity, and we are thrilled to have her on the team.

Antonio Marcos Pereira - Science Teacher

Marcos has been associated with Iracambi for several years, first appearing as part of a team studying vampire bats. A teacher of biology, he now works on his masters degree at the Federal University of Vicosa. He faces the 60 km bus journey and 12 km of dirt road on one of our trusty motorbikes with the same spirit of adventure that characterizes the Iracambi team, and we are happy to have him.