Fundação Parques e Jardins

Fundação Parques e Jardins (FPJ) is described in official City of Rio de Janeiro communications as an órgão vinculado (body linked) to the municipal secretariat. Its activities reported in these sources include urban tree planting and nursery work, garden revitalization, tree risk assessment, and support for technical training on urban arborization.

Official City of Rio de Janeiro pages report that Fundação Parques e Jardins (FPJ) is an órgão vinculado (body linked) to the municipal secretariat. In a December 2021 review of its actions, FPJ described a year of challenges and achievements. Reported activities include services at the Teatro Carlos Werneck in Parque do Flamengo, where palm trees were planted and the garden revitalized, and assessment of tree-fall risk. In January 2022, the city reported that construction of the Viveiro Árvores do Amanhã nursery at Fazenda Modelo in Guaratiba was underway. In April 2022, the FAO/UN and the Arbor Day Foundation (USA) recognized Rio as a tree-friendly city. In May 2022, the city reported it was gaining its first urban tree nursery, with capacity to produce ten thousand seedlings per year. In November 2021, FPJ supported an open class on urban arborization at Campo de Santana for postgraduate students of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ), where FPJ arborization director Claudio Santana highlighted the importance of such open classes.

1. 1Arquivos Fundação Parques e Jardins - Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro - prefeitura.rioprefeitura.rio
2. 2Campo de Santana recebe aula técnica sobre arborização urbana - Prefeitura da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro - prefeitura.rioprefeitura.rio
3. 3Fundação Parques e Jardinswikidata.org