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

José Luis Mendes Ripper - Design teacher at PUC RJ, runs LOTDP, and watered the bamboo seeds in my heart.
Kosrow Ghavammi - pioneer, planted D. giganteus at PUC-RJ. Founder of ABMTENC.
Edson Sartori e Rubens Cardoso - pioneers and enthusiasts of Campo Grande, with their seminaires reinforced bamboo culture in many people.
Ximena Londoño - taxonomist with a girl's heart, gives peace and joy to any bamboo subject.
Oscar Hidalgo Lopes - his lecture transformed things.
Lúcia Mazillo - teacher, companion and friend at my final graduation stage.
Tarciso Filgueiras - inspiration source.
Lynn Clark - for her work and contacts.
Pedro e Ian - Partners in work and life, we learned much together.
Marcelo Fonseca e Marcelinho - enthusiastics veterans.
Pedro Miranda - project partner.
Daniel Tadao Yamamoto - Bambu-Brasil partner. Visionary.
Luc Vittry - recent collegue, identified asper in my farm.
Sérgio Sarahyba - experient and recent friend and collegue.

Angel Sampedro del Rio, Luciana Preuss, Guillermo Gayo for their pictures and encouraging messages.
João Paglione that changed to a great friend and partner.
Tydin Rain Saint Clair, for his kindness and patience.
Jorge Morán, for believing.

George Shor, for his work.
Stanford Lynx, for his kind messages.
Linda Garland, for encouraging emails.
Gert Van Delft for his encouragment

Marco Antônio dos Reis Pereira - for his work and enthusiasm.

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.

Egroups for its free egroup service. Macromedia for its free test dreamweaver software.

Rafa, João, Lucas, Jacaré, Affonso, Otávio, Cotô and Letícia.

Daniel Carvalho e Hugo Portocarrero.

All my friends at PUC/RJ and CRAA. Cid and Aparecido.

Rômulo and Danzoca, small farm companionship.

Paul Moras, the 'professor', visionary and entrepeneur, responsible for my first emotional contact with bamboos. Nair, no comments, holy woman. Paulo and Zina, my dearest thanks.

Dri, your help is beyond the manual.

Henrique and Regina, eternal companion.