All language subtitles for Brazil Coastlines Series 1 5of5 The South 720p

LATIN GUITAR THEME, BREAKING WAVES

We end our Brazilian journey

by exploring the coastlines
of three states:

Parana, Santa Catarina,
and Rio Grande do Sul.

BEAT OF DRUMS

In Superagui National Park,

Tise safeguards
the cara-roxa parrot.

In Joinville, Ango raises sugarcane
and produces melado.

On the island of Santa Catarina,

Jaime cooks and serves oysters
he raised himself.

Near Florianopolis,

illegally trafficked animals
find a refuge

in Cristiane's shelter.

In Porto Alegre, Vitor sings of
the Brazil of the cowboys.

Maurivan grows soya and rice

and exports them
as far away as China.

Finally, in Brazil's far south,

Hamilton makes art from
the bones of beached whales.

Our first stop in Brazil's South
is the State of Parana,

and the magnificent
Superagui National Park

in Paranagua Bay.

LIVELY STRINGS MUSIC

Made up largely of islands
and mangroves,

and fed by several rivers,

the Superagui National Park extends
across almost 35,000 hectares.

Its diverse ecosystems
are home to myriad species.

As well as preserving
the coastal shrubbery

known as restinga,

the park protects
4700 square kilometres

of old-growth Atlantic forest.

In the midst of the park,
on the Superagui River,

there is a string of islands,
including Pinheirinho and Pinheiro.

Their forest is a natural habitat
for many native species,

which explains why the park
is so highly protected.

CALLS OF MANY BIRDS

Tise works as a biologist
for a Brazilian NGO,

the Society for Wildlife Research
and Environmental Education.

She coordinates a program

for the protection
of an emblematic species,

the blue-cheeked Amazon parrot,
or cara-roxa.

In her mission, Tise is supported
by two rangers, Alescar and Antonio.

These former poachers

are now the first to defend
the various species of parrot

that live on the Superagui islands.

Thanks to the rising environmental
awareness of the local people,

poaching has decreased considerably

and the number of parrots
has increased.

Now Tise would like the locals

to become more involved
in the life of the park.

PARROT CALLS

The next leg of our journey
takes us from Paranagua Bay

to Babitonga Bay
and the city of Joinville.

CRIES OF GULLS

A paradise for birds,

Paranagua is one of the largest bays
in Southern Brazil.

LYRICAL PIANO MUSIC

At the entrance of the bay,

the three small islands
of Ilha das Palmas

are a haven of peace,

protected as part of
the Ilha do Mel nature reserve.

TROPICAL BIRD CALLS, PIANO CONTINUES

Nearby, on the Ilha do Mel itself,

the Fort of Our Lady of Joy
keeps watch over the bay entrance.

Completed in 1769,

it defended the colonial port
of Paranagua,

which lay well inside the bay.

MUSIC CONTINUES

A hundred kilometres south
of the Ilha do Mel,

at the far end of Babitonga Bay,

we come to the largest city
in the State of Santa Catarina...

Joinville.

SLOW VIOLIN MUSIC

At first sight, Joinville looks like
any other city in Brazil.

But in its details,
it is more European.

At times, it can seem like
you're in Germany.

Although it was named
in honour of Francois of Orleans,

Prince of Joinville,

who married the daughter
of the King of Portugal in 1843,

the city was mainly settled
by immigrants from Hamburg,

as well as Switzerland
and Norway.

The rural district
of Estrada Bonita,

north of Joinville,

was also settled by Germans.

This is the family farm
of Ango Kersten

and his wife, Dona Ivanir.

Ango has strong German roots.

Ango is up early every morning
to tend his sugarcane plantation,

which he inherited from his father.

TRACTOR ENGINE

The little farm specialises in
the production and transformation

of sugarcane juice,
with ecotourism on the side.

It is a life of labour.

While Ango cuts the cane, his wife
crushes it to extract the juice.

They use it to produce
a family and regional specialty:

melado,
or sugar-cane marmalade.

As well as running the farm,

the Kerstens have a museum
of items from the rural past.

WHIMSICAL ACCORDION MUSIC

ROOSTER CROWS

LIVELY MUSIC

MUSIC GIVES WAY TO BIRDSONG

On our next leg,
we go from Joinville,

via Sao Francisco do Sul,

to Florianopolis,
the capital of Santa Catarina.

In the bay between Joinville
and the ocean is a large island:

Sao Francisco do Sul.

Its port is one of
the most important in Brazil,

especially its container terminal.

The old town of Sao Francisco
has an impressive colonial heritage,

like the Church of our Mother,
built in the late 18th century.

The vast expanse of Babitonga Bay

is highly prized for everything
from shipping, to water sports,

professional fishing,
and oyster farming.

On the northern tip of the island,

and dominating the entrance
to the bay, is the Marshal Luz Fort,

built in 1909.

130 kilometres down the coast
is another pearl...

the island of Santa Catarina,

known for its two beautiful lakes,
one of them 13 kilometres long.

The state capital, Florianopolis,
is also on the island.

FAST-PACED MODERN MUSIC

It is a prosperous modern city
of about half a million people.

Its suburbs extend across
the water to the mainland,

to which it is linked
by two bridges.

Known for its high tech
and high standard of living,

the city is hailed as
the future of Brazil.

MARINE BIRD CALLS

A few kilometres south of
bustling Florianopolis

is the picturesque village
of Freguesia do Ribeirao.

GENTLE GUITAR MUSIC

Since the introduction of
oyster-farming in the 1990s,

it has become
an important industry

along the coast of
Santa Catarina Island.

Jaime,
who owns a seafood restaurant,

invested in the new industry.

To stock his restaurant,

Jaime decided to become
his own supplier,

putting the emphasis on quality.

SIZZLING

LIVELY LATIN DRUMMING

In the island's northeast
is Lake Conceicao,

not very wide,
but 13 kilometres long.

Between the lake
and the Atlantic Ocean

there is a national park,

the home of an animal sanctuary
called CETAS.

There is one
in every state of Brazil.

At the moment,
it has some Magellanic penguins,

native to Chile,

but it can take care of
all sorts of species.

Cristiane is president of R3 Animal,
an NGO that manages the CETAS.

SQUAWKS, TROPICAL BIRD CALLS

MILITARY DRUMMING AND WHISTLING

The aim of the Centre

is to look after the animals
it takes in

and, whenever possible,
return them to the wild.

Many are marine animals,
and unfortunately

they have ended up in the Centre
largely because of human activity.

The Magellanic penguins
come from Patagonia

between March and September

to follow the schools of fish
off Brazil's southern coast.

Although they are supervised

by Brazil's environmental
protection institute,

the CETAS centres cannot rely
only on public funding.

We now head for Brazil's
southernmost state,

Rio Grande do Sul,
and its capital, Porto Alegre.

Sprawling beside the Guaiba River,

Porto Alegre is the largest city
in the three states

that make up southern Brazil.

By population, its metropolitan area
is Brazil's fourth-largest,

with almost 4½ million people.

FAST-PACED MODERN MUSIC

Yet Porto Alegre also has
a lot of green open space,

and it boasts an urban policy
tailored to well-being.

Like everyone else
in Rio Grande do Sul,

the people of Porto Alegre
often call themselves gauchos,

after the cowboys
of the South American pampas.

But in a built-up area like this,

how can you still belong
to a cowboy culture?

In the central market,

a city landmark
since it opened in 1869,

the popular singer Vitor Ramil
discusses the gaucho identity.

The gaucho certainly lives on
in the various stalls and shops

that sell traditional
gaucho products.

SLOW LATIN GUITAR

On the roof-terrace
of the Gasometro,

an old power station
converted into an arts centre,

Vitor and his band
improvise a performance.

SINGING IN PORTUGUESE

Next, we explore
the vast Lagoa dos Patos

and the fields along its shore
near Camaqua.

LIVELY LATIN MUSIC

After Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo,

the Lagoa dos Patos,
or "lagoon of ducks",

is the largest body of water
in South America.

A vast stretch of fresh water
covering 10,000 square kilometres,

it is separated from the ocean
only by a lengthy peninsula.

LATIN MUSIC CONTINUES

Rio Grande do Sul is one of Brazil's
leading agricultural states.

Ranches and crop fields
go right up to the coastline.

Small family farms make the state
Brazil's third-highest producer

of garlic and onions.

Rio Grande do Sul is known
for two crops in particular:

rice and soyabeans.

In the Camaqua district,

they are often planted in rotation
on the edge of the lagoon.

That's what Maurivan does
on his farm.

It's the region's largest
soyabean producer.

Both he and his fellow farmer
Jose Carlos love the land

but also welcome techniques
to make it more productive.

TWITTER OF MANY BIRDS

VEHICLE SOUNDS HORN

Like the great majority of
soyabean producers in Brazil,

Maurivan uses
genetically modified seeds

developed by Monsanto.

Brazil is the world's second-
biggest user of these seeds,

behind the United States.

Although Europe in particular
remains hesitant

about the effect
of genetic modification

on the environment
and human health,

in Brazil its use
is widely accepted.

BIRDSONG

In the wide open spaces
typical of the gaucho,

the processing plant
strikes a note of modernity.

Maurivan not only produces
rice and soya,

he also transforms them
into foodstuffs

sold throughout the world.

BIRD CALLS

For the gauchos of this area
are said to be far-sighted.

GENTLE GUITAR, COW LOWING

A beauty tarnished by the effect
of intensive agriculture

on the soil and rivers, even if
the effect is often invisible.

At the southern end of the lagoon,

the city of Rio Grande
stands on a peninsula

overlooking the channel
between the lagoon and the ocean,

a prime position that has made it

one of the main ports
in South America.

To ensure a smooth passage
for ships making their way

between the ocean and the lagoon,

two huge breakwaters,
the Molhes da Barra,

were built at the channel entrance
between 1911 and 1919.

Hailed as among the greatest
maritime works in the world,

they required over
4½ million tonnes of rock.

After breaches appeared
during the 1980s,

the breakwaters were reinforced
with tetrapod concrete blocks.

BARKING OF SEA LIONS

These make a perfect habitat
for the hundred sea lions

that have settled there
in a semi-permanent colony.

But the breakwaters aren't only
a home for sea lions.

BARKING OF SEA LIONS

The old railway

which once transported the rocks
to build the breakwater

now carries vagonetes,
wheeled platforms with sails.

Tourists can ride on one
for four kilometres

along the western breakwater.

Just behind this breakwater
we come to the Praia do Cassino,

said to be the longest beach
in the world.

It runs uninterrupted
for 235 kilometres,

all the way to the border.

LIVELY MUSIC

WAVES BREAKING

The final destination
in our Brazilian journey:

Barra do Chui, at the end of
the Praia do Cassino,

on the border with Uruguay.

QUIRKY PIANO

Running beside
the Praia do Cassino

is an extensive coastal plain
of prime grazing land.

In the nineteenth century,
under the latifundia system,

it was the basis of huge private
estates worked by slaves.

But this landscape of scrub
and pasture,

interspersed with wetlands,
is not exempt from change.

Some of the sandy coastal terrain
has been transformed

by recent plantations of conifers.

Between sea and lagoon,
beach and plain,

the coast of Rio Grande do Sul

is a place of shifting boundaries
between land and water

where man seems out of place.

DISTANT WAVES BREAKING

This beach near Barra do Chui
may seem featureless,

but sometimes it has
sad stories to tell.

WHALE CALL

Whale skeletons
are not uncommon here.

Frank whales or humpback whales
are stranded fairly often.

GULL CRIES

It is not only whales
that come here to die.

The ocean is not tender
with its children.

But the deaths may also result
from some human action,

something that troubles Hamilton,
a local artist.

Hamilton is a sculptor.

By chance at first, and then out of
conviction and a sense of duty,

he came to specialise
in the recovery and re-use

of materials thrown up by the sea.

Hamilton's studio, a veritable
museum of wood and bones,

contains some silent witnesses
to a larger story.

Paulo, an agronomist friend,

has come to examine
the tree-trunk.

Hamilton has
an educational foundation

called Ballaena Australis,
"Southern Whale".

His art works and his teaching
have established him

as an ecological artist.

TANGO, PIANO WITH ORCHESTRA

TANGO, PIANO WITH ORCHESTRA

TANGO MUSIC BLENDS WITH WAVES

TANGO, PIANO WITH ORCHESTRA

We close this episode,

and our 8000-kilometre journey
along the coastline,

with the faces we have met
in the South of Brazil.