Camillo Martins Vianna, born on April 14, 1926, is a doctor, folklorist and environmentalist, an icon of the struggle for the Amazon. Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the state of Pará, Vianna has a history of fighting for the biodiversity of this region and its people, in its more than eight decades of life.
His first job was at the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi and, among his contributions, is a collection of artifacts he collected relating to caboclo populations.
Vianna was the creator of the Amazon Preservation Weeks; responsible for the 1st Meeting of Indigenous Peoples of the Xingu; creator of the Society for the Preservation of Natural and Cultural Resources in the Amazon (SOPREN), in 1968, and coordinator: of health, education and environment in the Tapajós region; the Rural University Training and Community Action Center; the State and Municipal Health and Environment Council; and the Rondon Project, providing students with community visits and activities riverside, using strings for literacy and awareness of these people, among others strategies.
He was vice-rector and dean of extension at the Federal University of Pará, creating extension and internalization projects for the institution.
Having in his curriculum trips to different regions of the Amazon, he develops works of environmental education, cultural reanimation and valuing the inhabitants and the biome itself. The creation of community forests and work involving the recovery of degraded areas are also in his curriculum.
He works on the dissemination of this biome in our country and around the world and is a member of the Brazilian Society of Medical Writers, having several articles on the subject. Camillo says that his work is the result of his love for the environment and that this feeling is necessary and essential for that.
By Mariana Araguaia
Brazil School Team
Source: Brazil School - https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/biografia/camillo-martins-vianna.htm
