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My home hTohme eAttolamntaicnycoiamstpaolrftoarnetstasnodfrBarraezpillaanrets.
Humans extract a red dye from my Pau in danger
wood. Since trade started in the 1500s,
the only country where I lived was Humans killed my family to make red dye
given the name ‘Terra de Brasil’ and in such vast numbers that by the nineteenth
finally, Brazil. I live in the eastern century very few of us remained. Today,
part of Brazil, in the Atlantic coastal we are felled to make bows for musical
forests. Today, humans are testing instruments like the violin. The demand for
extracts from my body to see if they these expensive bows affects us severely.
can find a cure for cancer from it. Moreover, 70–80 per cent of our wood is
simply wasted while making these bows.
The timber of the pau brasil tree is prized
by makers of musical instruments.
Rescuing pau brasil Did you know?
The fact that I am the national In Portuguese, the language CR
tree of Brazil does get me spoken in Brazil, pau means
attention. Some of my family ‘wood’, and brasil is said to ED
live in reserves in Bahia and have come from brasa, which
Pernambuco. The organization EN
Fauna and Flora International means ‘ember’.
is running campaigns to help VU
protect me, along with some ENDANGER
other hardwood trees. I am
grateful to the organizations that
are educating people about me,
so that they can help save me.
My home hTohme eAttolamntaicnycoiamstpaolrftoarnetstasnodfrBarraezpillaanrets.
Humans extract a red dye from my Pau in danger
wood. Since trade started in the 1500s,
the only country where I lived was Humans killed my family to make red dye
given the name ‘Terra de Brasil’ and in such vast numbers that by the nineteenth
finally, Brazil. I live in the eastern century very few of us remained. Today,
part of Brazil, in the Atlantic coastal we are felled to make bows for musical
forests. Today, humans are testing instruments like the violin. The demand for
extracts from my body to see if they these expensive bows affects us severely.
can find a cure for cancer from it. Moreover, 70–80 per cent of our wood is
simply wasted while making these bows.
The timber of the pau brasil tree is prized
by makers of musical instruments.
Rescuing pau brasil Did you know?
The fact that I am the national In Portuguese, the language CR
tree of Brazil does get me spoken in Brazil, pau means
attention. Some of my family ‘wood’, and brasil is said to ED
live in reserves in Bahia and have come from brasa, which
Pernambuco. The organization EN
Fauna and Flora International means ‘ember’.
is running campaigns to help VU
protect me, along with some ENDANGER
other hardwood trees. I am
grateful to the organizations that
are educating people about me,
so that they can help save me.
