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(28) Canada – Kluane National Park National Kluane – Canada (28)

(27) Russia – Yamal Peninsula, Wrangel Island and Kamchatka Peninsula Kamchatka and Island Wrangel Peninsula, Yamal – Russia (27)

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(26) Madagascar (26)

(25) Zambia – Kafue National Park National Kafue – Zambia (25)

harmony with nature. with harmony became regular once more, bringing back fish and and fish back bringing more, once regular became

(24) United States – Colorado Plateau Colorado – States United (24)

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(23) South Sandwich Islands Sandwich South (23)

to their ancestral lifestyle. It is an elegy to mankind’s mankind’s to elegy an is It lifestyle. ancestral their to absorbed by the soil and, over time, the watercourses watercourses the time, over and, soil the by absorbed

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(22) South Georgia Islands Georgia South (22)

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and sought to portray peoples as near as possible possible as near as peoples portray to sought and than causing flooding, the seasonal rainwater was was rainwater seasonal the flooding, causing than

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(21) Falkland Islands Falkland (21)

fabulous things on the planet. the on things fabulous

He recorded animals in their natural environment environment natural their in animals recorded He land green, the flowers and animals came back. Rather Rather back. came animals and flowers the green, land (20) Alaska – Arctic Region Arctic – Alaska (20)

13 7 (19) Brazil – Amazon, Pantanal Wetlands and Xingu National Park National Xingu and Wetlands Pantanal Amazon, – Brazil (19)

me. I went to see life, the most most the life, see to went I me.

noes, icebergs, deserts and jungles were formed. formed. were jungles and deserts icebergs, noes, different tree species and, as they grew and made the the made and grew they as and, species tree different 26

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(18) Algeria – Sahara Desert Sahara – Algeria (18)

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photographing Genesis came to to came Genesis photographing - volca since unchanged practically world a faced He forest using local species. They planted more than 300 300 than more planted They species. local using forest

(17) Libya – Sahara Desert Sahara – Libya (17)

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(16) New Guinea New (16) 4

brilliant photographer to the grandiosity of nature. nature. of grandiosity the to photographer brilliant up the land. Lélia then had the idea to recreate the the recreate to idea the had then Lélia land. the up my head, and so the idea of of idea the so and head, my

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(15) Indonesia – Sumatra and West Papua West and Sumatra – Indonesia (15) 14

8 of humanity. Genesis, in turn, is a tribute by this this by tribute a is turn, in Genesis, humanity. of lost. By the 1990s, deforestation and erosion had dried dried had erosion and deforestation 1990s, the By lost.

return on all sides inside inside sides all on return (14) Ethiopia – Omo River Valley and Northern Mountains Mountains Northern and Valley River Omo – Ethiopia (14)

journeys through the experiences and adversities adversities and experiences the through journeys and rivers full of fish; however, this paradise had been been had paradise this however, fish; of full rivers and (13) Botswana – Cubango Delta and Kalahari Desert Kalahari and Delta Cubango – Botswana (13)

came back. Life began to to began Life back. came

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(12) Argentina – High Patagonia High – Argentina (12)

Trabalhadores (“Workers”) and Exodus – were were – Exodus and (“Workers”) Trabalhadores up, surrounded by lush vegetation, birds, wild animals animals wild birds, vegetation, lush by surrounded up,

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The birds, insects and animals animals and insects birds, The (11) Chile – High Patagonia High – Chile (11)

Sebastião Salgado’s previous projects – including including – projects previous Salgado’s Sebastião

in Minas Gerais. It was there that Sebastião had grown grown had Sebastião that there was It Gerais. Minas in

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everything being born again. again. born being everything

(9) Bhutan – Himalaya – Bhutan (9) take care of a relative’s property in the Doce River Valley Valley River Doce the in property relative’s a of care take “

(8) Sudan – South Region South – Sudan (8) to replant the forest. We saw saw We forest. the replant to

(“Earth Institute”), founded in 1998. in founded Institute”), (“Earth Salgado and his wife, Lélia Wanick Salgado, agreed to to agreed Salgado, Wanick Lélia wife, his and Salgado 28

(7) Namibia (7)

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alligators. The property became the Instituto Terra Terra Instituto the became property The alligators. The Genesis project’s Genesis The creation began when Sebastião Sebastião when began creation (6) Argentina – Valdés Peninsula Valdés – Argentina (6)

(5) Antarctica (5)

(2) Congo (3) Rwanda (4) Uganda – Virunga Mountains Virunga – Uganda (4) Rwanda (3) Congo (2) (1) Ecuador – Galapagos – Ecuador (1)

Vale’s support for the Genesis expedition and exhibition is directly related to the company’s mission, vision and values. It is a high-level I conceived this work illustration of Vale’s beliefs, as well as its “as a tribute to the planet. commitment to integrated development in “ the communities where it operates across the We decided to identify its planet. The exhibition plays an informative and pure parts in order to help educational role, highlighting and motivating preserve them. nature preservation. 2012 Sustainability Report Sebastião Salgado Besides sponsoring this project since 2008, the company supports the Instituto Terra, an institution created by Sebastião Salgado and Lélia Wanick Salgado, its president, to preserve the Doce River Valley region, location of the photographer’s hometown of Aimorés For eight years, from 2004 to 2012, on an in Minas Gerais. Half a million saplings from the expedition to more than 30 regions of different Vale Natural Reserve – one of the largest areas countries, Brazilian photographer Sebastião of protected Atlantic Forest in Brazil, Salgado went on foot, by boat, on small aircraft maintained by Vale since the 1950s – have been and by hot-air balloon to create, with his donated for the Instituto Terra’s reforestation sensitive and tasteful eye, the Genesis project. actions. The company also has a partnership with the institute in a project to restore some It was an expedition to remote parts of the of the headwaters of the Doce River, also planet, frequently accompanied by his wife, in Minas Gerais and in Espírito Santo. Lélia Wanick Salgado, sometimes by their son,

Sustainability Report Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, and most of the time Vale, a Brazilian company established in 1942, by colleague Jacques Barthélemy. They sought since becoming one of the largest mining land and marine landscapes, animals and companies in the world, believes that it is ancestral communities that had escaped 2012 possible to transform natural resources into interference from the modern world. social and economic prosperity, with respect for the communities where it operates and the People in many countries will have the environment. Vale seeks to promote opportunity to see the Genesis exhibition, sustainable development among its employees, the result of work that, according to Salgado, partners and communities where it is present. was the most rewarding experience of his life. In this way, it will be possible to leave a positive The exhibition’s premiere took place on April 9, legacy for future generations. Sebastião 2013 in London. Salgado conveys this message through his exuberant images, demonstrating that www.vale.com humanity can only truly evolve when it accepts itself as being an inseparable part of nature. Amazon (Venezuela) 2006 Sebastião Salgado Vale is proud to sponsor the Genesis Project.