this site couldn't be possible without the patience, persistence, help and collaboration of:

José Luis Mendes Ripper - Khosrow Ghavami - Edson Sartori - Rubens Cardoso - Ximena Londoño - Oscar Hidalgo Lopes - Lúcia Mazillo - Tarciso Filgueiras - Lynn Clark - Pedro e Ian - Marcelo Fonseca e Marcelinho - Pedro Miranda -
Daniel Tadao Yamamoto - Luc Vittry - Sérgio Sarahyba - Angel Sampedro del Rio - Luciana Preuss - Guillermo Gayo - João Paulo Paglione - Tydin Rain Saint Clair - Jorge Morán - George Shor - Stanford Lynx - Linda Garland - Gert Van Delft - Marco Antônio dos Reis Pereira.

The following had given me kind permission in using their pictures:

Yves Crouzet - Bambouseraie, Harald Ernst - 1000 Things of Bamboo, Ross Yearsley - Bamboo Hardwoords, Chester Hill, Michael McDonough, Robert Saporito, Victor Cusack, Jo Scheer, Dr. Damir Kovac, Andrew Clarke - The Chinese Gallery, Wang Hua - Lin An China, UCCS - Chinese cuisine.

Rafa, João, Lucas, Affonso, Otávio, Jacaré, Cotô e Letícia. Daniel Carvalho e Hugo Portocarrero.

All bamboo friends at PUC/RJ and CRAA. Cid, Aparecido, Albanese, Rômulo, Dan, Paul Moras (o 'the professor'), Nair, Paulo, Zina, Dri, Henrique, Regina.