IMPA plants 1,000 Atlantic Forest seedlings in two weeks.

The work of planting native Atlantic Forest trees continues intensely on the land where IMPA is building the new sustainable campus, in Jardim Botânico. In two weeks, 1,000 seedlings were planted . This Thursday (19), the institute's deputy director, Claudio Landim, planted a jequitibá-rosa. In total, the institute will plant at least 5,529 trees of species such as palmito-juçara, jequitibá, ipê-dourado, embaúba and pau-Brasil . The action is part of a compensatory measure for the construction of the new campus, which will provide forest enrichment, due to the removal of exotic species (jackfruit trees) and the planting of various native species, which will contribute to the proliferation of the diversity of fauna and flora. In a short time, the land will have a number of native Atlantic Forest trees more than ten times greater than what existed before the intervention. The campus project was entirely conceived to solve environmental problems, from lighter materials with low construction impact to the rational use of water and energy efficiency management. It won the 2017 Recognition Award from the Lafarge Holcim Foundation in Switzerland, the most important international competition for sustainable architectural projects. With infrastructure comparable to that of the world's leading research centers, the sustainable campus will expand and diversify the institute's activities, further increasing its scientific and social contribution to Rio de Janeiro and Brazil. In addition to training masters and doctoral students and developing basic education teachers, IMPA conducts high-level research, partners with the productive sector, and plays a fundamental role in popularizing mathematics. The expansion will benefit students, researchers, the scientific community, the people of Rio de Janeiro, and Brazilians in general. Learn more about IMPA's sustainable campus at: https://impa.br/novocampus/ .