Guided walking tours and themed tours

African Trail: 19 points / 1h30m average duration
The African Trail is represented by 19 plant species cultivated in the arboretum of the Botanical Garden. Some of these species are native to Brazil and others came from Africa and other tropical regions around the world, and have been used by various African peoples and their descendants since they first arrived here. Candomblé and Umbanda are Brazilian religions for which the plant element is indispensable, but the use of plants by Africans in Brazil goes back to the millenary Yoruba tradition.
"Ko si ewe, ko si òrìsá. No leaf, no orixá."
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Amazon Forest Trail: 21 points / 2 hours average duration
In an area of enormous exuberance, cut by the Rio dos Macacos, the Amazon region extends over more than 40 thousand square meters of the Botanical Garden. The abundance of water resources was fundamental for the creation and consolidation of this collection, which is composed of species such as kapok, pau-mulato, rubber tree, açaizeiro, andiroba, and many others. Some of them, such as the mahogany and the Brazil nut tree, are threatened with extinction. Here, these trees are preserved, researched, and their seeds used to generate new specimens of the species.
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Noble Tree Trail: 27 points / 2 hours average duration
The Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden was founded on June 13, 1808, by D. João, prince regent at the time. Later, D. João VI installed a gunpowder factory and an acclimatization garden for plant species from other parts of the world. Today, the Research Institute Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden - the name it received in 1995 - is a federal agency linked to the Ministry of Environment and is one of the most important research centers in the world in the areas of botany and biodiversity conservation. It houses approximately 22,800 specimens of Brazilian flora and several regions of the world, in the 540,000 square meters open to public visitation. Along the Noble Tree Trail, noble species are interpreted, mainly from the Atlantic and Amazon forests. The name "noble trees" encompasses the ecological, economic, and landscape importance of the species.
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Endangered Species Trail: 17 points / 1h30m average duration
The trail presents some endangered species of Brazilian flora that are part of the Botanical Garden's collection. In addition to the pleasant walk through the arboretum, the action aims to address concepts related to the conservation of biodiversity and the main risk factors for these species. This route was based on information from the Red Book of Brazilian Flora.
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Evolutionary Trail: 14 points / 1h30m average duration
Evolution basically deals with processes in which species undergo random mutations that favor their adaptation to the environment and the changes that occur therein. Plants that have flower and fruit at maturity form the dominant plant group on Earth, which succeeded the mosses, ferns, and pines, and are the basis of our food and culture. Darwin called the emergence, rapid diversification, and dominance of flowers and fruits an "abominable mystery" in the fossil record, which is now being unraveled through molecular biology. Using DNA, scientists have revolutionized the classification of plants.
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Historical Trail: 78 points / 2h30m average duration
The Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro houses a botanical collection of Brazilian flora, as well as a historical and cultural collection. It was D. João VI's intention to acclimatize spices brought from the East Indies in the area he had disappropriated for the installation of a gunpowder factory for the defense of his Crown. From Jardim de Aclimação and Real Horto, after the coronation of D. João VI as King of the United Kingdom of Portugal and Brazil, it was renamed Real Jardim Botânico (Royal Botanical Garden). Only during the Reign of Pedro I it was opened to public visitation, already under the name of Botanical Garden. In 1937, it was protected by the Institute of National Historic and Artistic Heritage (Instituto do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional), and defined by Unesco as a Biosphere Reserve, in 1992, and Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve, in 1999. Its mission is to "promote, carry out and divulge teaching and technical-scientific research on the floristic resources of Brazil, aiming at the knowledge and conservation of biodiversity, as well as the maintenance of the scientific collections under its responsibility"
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Indigenous Trail: 17 points / 2 hours average duration
The Indigenous Trail is represented by 17 plant species cultivated in the arboretum of the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro. These species have been used and managed for hundreds of years by several indigenous peoples in Brazil. Thus, the main objective of this trail is to raise awareness about the importance of recognizing, conserving, protecting, and perpetuating indigenous knowledge about the use of plants. In Brazil there are about 255 indigenous peoples who speak 154 languages and/or dialects and occupy 13% of the national territory (ISA 2018). However, these peoples are intensely threatened with losing or having their rights diminished, with the consequent loss of their knowledge associated with biodiversity.
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Atlantic Forest Trail: 27 points / 1h30m average duration
The Atlantic Forest is one of the richest biomes in the world in terms of diversity of plant species, many of them endangered. Almost all of these species (95%) occur in Brazil, and the rest in Argentina and Uruguay. It covers approximately 15% of the Brazilian territory, extending over 17 states (from Ceará to Rio Grande do Sul), of which 14 are coastal. Today only 12.4% of the original forest remains. Most of the Brazilian population (72%), seven of the nine largest river basins in the country and three of the largest urban centers on the South American continent are in the Atlantic Forest area. Currently, there are approximately 21 thousand species (about 60% endemic) of plants scattered throughout the various types of vegetation (refuges, forests, restingas and mangroves) found in this biome.
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