12,000 Dissected Piranhas: the Unusual Business that a Community Built in Brazil in the 1970s
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In the 1970s, an Italian priest sold 12,000 piranhas to Europe; 55 years later, his proceeds have funded 350m bridges and an 800m airstrip on a remote Brazilian island
Giovanni Gallo, an Italian Jesuit priest, moved to Marajó Island in Brazil in the 1970s. He organized the preservation and export of 12,000 piranhas to fund community infrastructure projects. These projects included bridges, a cemetery, a dock, and an airstrip for local residents. Gallo also founded the Museu do Marajó, which showcased local history and archaeology.
Giovanni Gallo took over the parish of Santa Cruz do Arari, on the island of Marajó, and launched an initiative that ended up transforming part of the life of the community
Fifty years later, the Italian priest's strange design still lives on in a museum in the heart of the Amazon.
An Italian Jesuit priest turned one of the most feared fishes in Amazon into an unusual source of income for an isolated community. Construction of the basic infrastructure: wooden bridges, runways and community dock Giovanni Gallo organized the conservation and export of 12,000 piranha fishes on Marajo Island in Brazil. With [...]
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