Twenty years ago, his father recounted a true story about Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca National Park that few people know. In the 1860s, six enslaved Black Brazilians — Eleuterio, Constantino ...

Tijuca Forest used to be home to 33 large- and medium-sized species, including jaguars, tapirs and peccaries, but just 11 remain. ... "The more people visit this forest, ...

Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca National Park has become a laboratory for the reintroduction of locally extinct species. A study shows that, of the 33 species of large and medium-sized mammals that used ...

Exploring Tijuca National Park, a jungle inside a city. In Rio de Janeiro you will often hear the Tijuca Forest described as the largest jungle in the world, inside a city. It is not really true ...

In the heart of the Marvellous City, the Tijuca Forest sprawls over 32 km² of lush nature, making it the largest urban forest ...

Tijuca Forest is secondary Atlantic Rain Forest. By the mid-19th century, the original Atlantic Forest ecosystem — Mata Atlântica in Portuguese — that greeted the Portuguese when they first ...

The world’s largest urban forest, the Florest da Tijuca (Tijuca Forest) is a hand-planted rainforest in Rio de Janeiro that’s home to hundreds of species of flora and fauna, some rare and ...

The truth is, this sprawling forest was replanted by hand.For as much attention that's given to deforestation in the Amazon rainforest in the last centuries, Brazil's Atlantic forest ecosystem has ...

Howler monkeys are back in the heart of Rio de Janeiro 100 years after disappearing - as scientists try to repopulate the Tijuca National Park.

Tijuca forest park in Rio 0 Comment(s) Print E-mail Xinhua, January 14, 2014 Photo taken on Jan. 11, 2013 shows the general view of the Rio de Janeiro City with plants in Tijuca National Park in ...

The post How Black people saved Rio de Janeiro’s Tijuca forest appeared first on TheGrio. OPINION: Tijuca National Park is the largest urban rainforest in the world and the heart of Rio.

In 1967, the Tijuca forest was declared a national park divided into three non-contiguous sectors: Tijuca Forest west of the city centre; Carioca, where the world wonder Cristo Redentor statue is ...