In the 1970s, an Italian priest sold 12,000 piranhas to Europe; 55 years later, his proceeds have funded 350m bridges and an 800m airstrip on a remote Brazilian island
An Italian Jesuit priest once turned one of the Amazon’s most feared fish into an unlikely source of income for an isolated community. Giovanni Gallo organised the preservation and export of about 12,000 piranhas from Brazil’s Marajó Island, with the proceeds helping fund bridges, a community dock, a cemetery and an airstrip, according to Brazilian…