Horto Florestal - Parque Estadual Alberto Löfgren

This guide to Horto Florestal tells how a Swedish naturalist named Alberto Löfgren opened this ground in 1896 as a strict scientific nursery, planting swamp cypress and other trees to test what could rebuild forests São Paulo had already cleared. It follows how his tidy experiment slipped out of his control, as capuchin monkeys, capybaras and herons moved in and made the labeled plots their own. Listen for how two ordinary ponds ended up growing islands nobody planted on purpose.