World Wetlands Day: wildlife abounds in Rio after restoration transforms wetlands

(2 Feb 2025)
HZ WORLD WETLANDS DAY
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 19 January 2025
1. Tilt down aerial shot of Marapendi lagoon with buildings in the neighbourhood of Barra da Tijuca in the background ++MUTE++
2. Tilt up aerial shot of Tijuca Lagoon ++MUTE++
3. Tijuca Lagoon from boat
4. Tijuca lagoon with birds
5. Various of white cranes and black cormorants flying above water at Camorim lagoon
6. Aerial shot of excavating machine acting as a dredge, removing mud from Tijuca lagoon bottom ++MUTE++
7. Various of crane removing mud from Tijuca lagoon bottom
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 24 January 2025
8. Wide of Lucas Arrosti pointing to a printed map of Marapedi lagoon and surrounding areas on wall
9. Mid of Arrosti pointing to map and explaining where dredging is taking place
UPSOUND (Portuguese) Lucas Arrosti - Operations director at Iguá Saneamento:
“Dredging will reconstruct these natural canals that join the lagoons with each other and to the ocean through the Joatinga canal."
10. Aerial shot of Joatinga Canal at Barra da Tijuca beach ++MUTE++
11. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Lucas Arrosti - Operations director at Iguá Saneamento:
“The reconstruction of these canals, these dark orange markings in the map, it will allow the entrance of a larger volume of sea water in these brackish water lagoons.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 20 January 2025
12. Mario Moscatelli and Carolina Moscatelli (daughter) on a boat at Tijuca Lagoon
13. Boat arriving at site of Camorim Lagoon Park
14. Mario and Carolina Moscatelli entering Camorim Park
15. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Mario Moscatelli, biologist:
“The mangroves were devastated, filled with rubble, the city growing not only over the mangroves but also lagoons and beachfront vegetation. Then finally at this location at the Camorim lagoon we created a prototype that will be the first municipal park in this kind of eco system.”
16. Wide of Carolina walking on wooden path
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 22 January 2025
17. Aerial view of suction dredger at Tijuca Lagoon ++MUTE++
18. Wide of mud pouring out of dredger pipe with birds in foreground
19. Various of spoonbill roseate birds on newly created ground (Scientific name: platalea ajaja)
20. Various of black necked stilt and white cheeked pintails at new mud bank (Scientific names: himantopus mexicanus and anas bahamensis)
21. Mid of two white cheeked pintails on water
22. Wide of six neotropic cormorants on logs (Scientific name: nannopterum brasilianum)
23. Mid of Lesser yellowlegs walking on mud (Portuguese: maçarico de perna amarela Sci name: tringa flavipes)
24. Close of small fish on water surface
25. Various of common gallinule on water (Scientific name: gallinula galeata)
26. Wide shot of mud filled bank with many white egrets (Port: garça branca Sci: ardea alba)
27. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Mario Moscatelli - Biologist:
“Once you start observing other species, such as the ‘biguatinga’ which had never been seen here before and its reproduction had not been notified in Rio de Janeiro state, then you perceive something positive is taking place.”
28. Various of an adult anhinga (Scientific name: anhinga anhinga)
29. Close of two teen anhingas fighting at nest
30. Mid of young anhinga on top of a tree
31. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Mario Moscatelli - Biologist:“
32. Various of a mother capybara with a group of its children following
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