I am a wildlife veterinarian and master in forest sciences who bought a degraded land back in 1998 for environmental restoration and conservation. At the same time, with a group of colleagues we start to work with the local government to give them scientific reasons to create a state park next to our property. Serra da Baitaca State Park was created in 2002, contiguous to our reserve, and to the largest complex of protected areas in the Atlantic Forest. The reserve was planned since its conception according the permaculture design.