Maria Adélia Mendonça is a journalist, reporter and producer at the German broadcasting company ARD in Brazil. She is co-author of the documentary Sportfalle, screened in 2016.
A Green Wave for a Better Quality of Life
What can be done to protect this forest and improve the life of this community that is so marginalized by public power? With this question in mind, the ecologist Hélio Vanderlei founded the socio-environmental NGO Onda Verde (“Green Wave”) in 1994. “When I started the NGO, I thought: I have to go to Tinguá to protect the rainforest. There are 25,000 hectares there that produce 170 million liters of water per day,” he says.
September 22, 2017