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4 - BRAZIL NUT USES
The rubber tapper families are Brazil nut specialists:
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Collecting Brazil nut fruits |
Breaking fruits
open to release the nuts |
Extracting Brazil nut "milk" |
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Using the bark for medicine |
Feeding residual nuts to animals |
Playing games with Brazil nuts |
Now, they are beginning to plant Brazil nuts.
They believe that this is a privilege that belongs not only to the agouti, but to themselves as well.
Therefore, PESACRE (together with CAEX, IBAMA and the University of Florida), tested the planting of seedlings in three areas with enrichment potential
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Shifting cultivation plots |
Pastures |
Forest gaps |
