The objective of Cataratas S.A. is to provide added visitor service quality and to encourage environmental education at one of the most visited sightseeing spots in Brazil. Another of Cataratas do Iguaçú S.A.'s objectives is to minimize the environmental impact. Before the implementation of the remodeling plan, the Iguaçú Park was going through visitation related problems.

After the implementation of the remodeling project, the Iguaçú National Park amazes visitors by the quality of services and by the tourist structure being offered to those visiting the most import forest preservation area in southern Brazil. In order to enable visitors to enjoy their visit, an efficient visitors service complex has been built. The Iguaçú Falls, which are the main attraction of the Park, may be viewed from new and more appealing perspectives. The second phase of the remodeling will be even more important because it will improve the elevator area and the access to the catwalks leading to the Devil's Gorge. All tourists entering the preservation area will go through that area.

The entire structure was designed so as to allow a total integration to nature and by using ecologically correct materials and wooden structures certified as to their origin and phytosanitiy. None of the work foreseen in the remodeling plan will cast a shadow to the natural attractions.

The new visitation system at the PNI, will endeavor to allow an increase in the number of visitors while reducing the environmental impact through an increase in the average number of passenger per vehicle inside the Park. The Park's transportation system is in compliance with the CONAMA (phase IV) and EURO (phase II) emissions and noise guidelines and a significant reduction in the number of vehicles driving around the Park has already been achieved, which in turn has decreased littering by passengers and the risk of wild life being run over.

One of the great concerns of the company is environmental preservation awareness. In the light of this matter, we are able to evaluate a set of actions that have been implemented in order to train and certify the Park's staff by applying Preservation Unit management guidelines. The main environmental concepts implemented by the company are listed below:

• Exclusive shuttle service
  
• Waste treatment
  
• Frequent lectures
  
• Optimizing of water consumption
  
• Infrastructure with the least environmental impact
  
• Low noise levels
  
• Trash recycling
  
• Selective trash collection is practiced inside the PNI, which is the sorting of usable and non- usable waste. Standardized icons are posted to identify the organic and recyclable waste