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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT - MINISTRY OF JUSTICE - SUPREME COURT FEDERAL
THE STATE OF SAO PAULO - SAO PAULO MUNICIPAL
THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO
MUNICIPALITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO
MINISTRY OF CITIES - FEDERAL SENATE
CGU - CONTROLLING THE GENERAL UNION
CNJ - NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUSTICE
Roberto Marinho Foundation - José Roberto Marinho
PRINCE HARRY IN BRAZIL
HENRY WICKHAM, THE ENGLISH THAT BECAME THE FATHER
THE BIOPIRACY
Between 1880 and 1913, the Amazon experienced its belle epoque. In 1907, per capita consumption of diamonds in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas, was the highest in the world. There, the cost of living came to be four times higher than the London or New York. Manaus was the first city in South America to have a network of electric trams. He also had the largest floating port in the world, with record-handling vessels. In 1906, the waters of the Rio Negro flowed sufficient wealth to pay 40% of annual debt of Brazil. A symbol of this golden period can still be found in Manaus, Amazonas Theatre, inspired by the Opera Garnier in Paris. The reason for this prosperity was the rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis, dispersed in the Amazon rainforest. It produced a unique quality rubber in the world and so essential to the transportation, communications, and industry of the time as oil is today. In 1913, this world of wealth suffered a mortal blow when the rubber extracted from rubber trees planted by the British in Southeast Asia invaded the market with the same quality and lower prices.
This story is well known. Much less is the adventurer responsible for the end of the rubber boom in Amazonia. In 1876, Englishman Henry Wickham, who had settled in Santarém, Pará, on the banks of the Rio Tapajós, smuggled 70,000 seeds of Hevea brasiliensis to the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, a famous British institution with 250 years of history in the study of botany. Wickham hid the seeds in baskets woven under banana leaves. He said he carried only "exotic specimens and delicate" the gardens of Queen Victoria, the monarch of the time in the UK. Was not bothered by the representatives of the Brazilian customs officers to inspect the steamer in which English was traveling. Only 2000 of the seeds germinated but the seedlings transplanted to Southeast Asia, produced, 37 years later, the economic ruin of the Brazilian Amazon and changed to some extent, the world.
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Municipal Prefecture of Curitiba, Curitiba-Paraná-Capital
Chamber of Councillors of Curitiba, Paraná State Government-
Legislature of the State of Parana, Rio de Janeiro and Globo-
State Government of Rio de Janeiro
City of Rio de Janeiro-Federal Government-
Brasilia-DF-Band Curitiba-Bandeirantes - See Magazine - The Globe -
Rpctv Paranaense - Roberto Marinho Foundation
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT - MINISTRY OF JUSTICE - SUPREME COURT FEDERAL
THE STATE OF SAO PAULO - SAO PAULO MUNICIPAL
THE STATE OF RIO DE JANEIRO
MUNICIPALITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO
MINISTRY OF CITIES - FEDERAL SENATE
CGU - CONTROLLING THE GENERAL UNION
CNJ - NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUSTICE
Roberto Marinho Foundation - José Roberto Marinho
PRINCE HARRY IN BRAZIL
HENRY WICKHAM, THE ENGLISH THAT BECAME THE FATHER
THE BIOPIRACY
Between 1880 and 1913, the Amazon experienced its belle epoque. In 1907, per capita consumption of diamonds in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas, was the highest in the world. There, the cost of living came to be four times higher than the London or New York. Manaus was the first city in South America to have a network of electric trams. He also had the largest floating port in the world, with record-handling vessels. In 1906, the waters of the Rio Negro flowed sufficient wealth to pay 40% of annual debt of Brazil. A symbol of this golden period can still be found in Manaus, Amazonas Theatre, inspired by the Opera Garnier in Paris. The reason for this prosperity was the rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis, dispersed in the Amazon rainforest. It produced a unique quality rubber in the world and so essential to the transportation, communications, and industry of the time as oil is today. In 1913, this world of wealth suffered a mortal blow when the rubber extracted from rubber trees planted by the British in Southeast Asia invaded the market with the same quality and lower prices.
This story is well known. Much less is the adventurer responsible for the end of the rubber boom in Amazonia. In 1876, Englishman Henry Wickham, who had settled in Santarém, Pará, on the banks of the Rio Tapajós, smuggled 70,000 seeds of Hevea brasiliensis to the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, a famous British institution with 250 years of history in the study of botany. Wickham hid the seeds in baskets woven under banana leaves. He said he carried only "exotic specimens and delicate" the gardens of Queen Victoria, the monarch of the time in the UK. Was not bothered by the representatives of the Brazilian customs officers to inspect the steamer in which English was traveling. Only 2000 of the seeds germinated but the seedlings transplanted to Southeast Asia, produced, 37 years later, the economic ruin of the Brazilian Amazon and changed to some extent, the world.
Source newsroom - season magazine
Source images - Google
AJE - Al Jazeera English - Cbs - Fox news - cnn -
Bbc London - La nacion Argentina - Reuters London
Municipal Prefecture of Curitiba, Curitiba-Paraná-Capital
Chamber of Councillors of Curitiba, Paraná State Government-
Legislature of the State of Parana, Rio de Janeiro and Globo-
State Government of Rio de Janeiro
City of Rio de Janeiro-Federal Government-
Brasilia-DF-Band Curitiba-Bandeirantes - See Magazine - The Globe -
Rpctv Paranaense - Roberto Marinho Foundation
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