Determined to rebuild Brazil’s rapidly dwindling forests, in 1910 he started importing eucalypti from Australia. He was responsible for planting 38 million of them.
निलगिरीच्या आधुनिक देशभ्रमणाला योगदान देणारी आणखी एक व्यक्‍ती म्हणजे डॉक्टर एड्‌मंडो नावारो दे आंड्राडे.