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Sustainable Development Reserve (Brazil)
A sustainable development reserve ( pt, Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável, RDS) in Brazil is a type of protected area inhabited by a traditional population that seeks to preserve nature while maintaining and improving the life of the population through sustainable development. Background The concept of Sustainable Development Reserves originated in the Projeto Mamirauá launched in the early 1990s by the Sociedade Civil Mamirauá. The project followed the principle of management based on scientific research and controlled use of natural resources. The local population participates actively in the planning process and in responsible for managing and monitoring the area. Key aspects are that the strategy can adapt to changes in the market, private property is maintained, plans are implemented to improve living conditions, and the local people partner with government agencies and NGOs to develop proposals for sustainable use. The Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve was est ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protected Areas Of Brazil
Protected areas of Brazil included various classes of area according to the National System of Conservation Units (SNUC), a formal, unified system for federal, state and municipal parks created in 2000. Types of protected area Protected areas, also called conservation units, are divided into different categories according to their goals. These are defined by Law No. 9.985 of 18 July 2000, which established the National System of Conservation Units (SNUC). Objectives include conservation of nature, sustainable development, scientific research, education and eco-tourism. Fully protected units are expected to maintain the natural ecosystem without human interference. Sustainable use units allow sustained use of renewable environmental resources while maintaining biodiversity and other ecological attributes. The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation, which administers Federal units, defines the fully protected (''proteção integral'') classes of unit as: * Ecological ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piagaçu-Purus Sustainable Development Reserve
Piagaçu-Purus Sustainable Development Reserve ( pt, Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Piagaçu-Purus) is a sustainable development reserve in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Location The Piagaçu-Purus Sustainable Development Reserve (RDS) is divided between the municipalities of Tapauá (30.35%), Coari (1.37%), Anori (40.11%) and Beruri (28.17%) in the state of Amazonas. It covers an area of . The name comes from the Tupi language: ''pi'á'' (guts, heart or stomach) and ''wa'su'' (large, wide), and means "great heart of the Purus". There are about 85 communities of people in the reserve, who live by fishing, agriculture, hunting and extraction of timber and non-timber products. The RDS adjoins the Abufari Biological Reserve to the southwest and the Nascentes do Lago Jari National Park to the south. The southern part of the RDS surrounds the Itixi Mitari Indigenous Territory, and further north the RDS surrounds the Lago Aiapuá Indigenous Territory. The Purus River runs t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cerrado
The ''Cerrado'' (, ) is a vast ecoregion of tropical savanna in eastern Brazil, particularly in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Tocantins, Minas Gerais, and the Federal District. The core areas of the Cerrado biome are the Brazilian highlands – the ''Planalto''. The main habitat types of the Cerrado consist of forest savanna, wooded savanna, park savanna and gramineous-woody savanna. The ''Cerrado'' also includes savanna wetlands and gallery forests. The second largest of Brazil's major habitat types, after the Amazonian rainforest, the Cerrado accounts for a full 21 percent of the country's land area (extending marginally into Paraguay and Bolivia). The first detailed European account of the Brazilian cerrados was provided by Danish botanist Eugenius Warming (1892) in the book ''Lagoa Santa'', : The above is the original. There are other, later French and Portuguese translations not listed here. in which he describes the main features of the c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minas Gerais
Minas Gerais () is a state in Southeastern Brazil. It ranks as the second most populous, the third by gross domestic product (GDP), and the fourth largest by area in the country. The state's capital and largest city, Belo Horizonte (literally "Beautiful Horizon"), is a major urban and finance center in Latin America, and the sixth largest municipality in Brazil, after the cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Brasília and Fortaleza, but its metropolitan area is the third largest in Brazil with just over 5.8 million inhabitants, after those of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Nine Brazilian presidents were born in Minas Gerais, the most of any state. The state has 10.1% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 8.7% of the Brazilian GDP. With an area of —larger than Metropolitan France—it is the fourth most extensive state in Brazil. The main producer of coffee and milk in the country, Minas Gerais is known for its heritage of architecture and colonia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nascentes Geraizeiras Sustainable Development Reserve
The Nascentes Geraizeiras Sustainable Development Reserve ( pt, Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Nascentes Geraizeiras is a sustainable development reserve in the Cerrado ecoregion within the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Location The Nascentes Geraizeiras Sustainable Development Reserve (RDS), in the north of the state of Minas Gerais. It has an area of in the Cerrado biome.. It protects parts of the municipalities of: * Montezuma (54.72%) *Rio Pardo de Minas (28.8%) *Vargem Grande do Rio Pardo (16.47%) . History The Nascentes Geraizeiras Sustainable Development Reserve (RDS) was created in response to demands from the Movimento dos Geraizeiros, which represents the traditional community of the state. This includes small-scale producers of cassava flour, brown sugar, corn and beans, and harvesters of the ''pequi'' and ''panã'' fruits and of medicinal plants of the cerrado. The RDS was created by presidential decree on 13 October 2014. The decree also established the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matupiri Sustainable Development Reserve
The Matupiri Sustainable Development Reserve ( pt, Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável do Matupiri) is a sustainable development reserve in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Location The Matupiri Sustainable Development Reserve is in the municipality of Borba, Amazonas. It has an area of . The reserve is in the basin of the Madeira River. The Cunhã-Sapucaia Indigenous Territory adjoins the reserve to the north. To the east it adjoins the Matupiri State Park. To the south it adjoins the Rio Madeira Sustainable Development Reserve. The Matupiri River crosses the western portion of the reserve from southwest to northeast and then forms part of the boundary between the reserve and the Cunhã-Sapucaia Indigenous Territory. History The Matupiri Sustainable Development Reserve was created by decree 28423 of 27 March 2009. It was one of five conservation units created to meet some of the environmental licensing requirements for the work to upgrade the BR-319 highway from Porto V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lavras Sustainable Development Reserve
The Lavras Sustainable Development Reserve ( pt, Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Lavras) is a sustainable development reserve in the Atlantic Forest biome and the state of São Paulo, Southeastern Brazil. Location The Lavras Sustainable Development Reserve is in the Cajati municipality of São Paulo. It has an area of , with four families. It covers the basin of the Lavras River, with about 50 tributaries. The landscape includes farmland and preserved forest. The Lavras waterfall could become a tourist attraction. History The Lavras Sustainable Development Reserve was one of several conservation units created by state law 12.810 of 21 February 2008, in which the Jacupiranga Mosaic was created from the former Jacupiranga State Park The Jacupiranga State Park ( pt, Parque Estadual de Jacupiranga) was a state park in São Paulo, Brazil. It covered a large, mountainous region that included untouched Atlantic Forest and land occupied by traditional communities. When the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juma Sustainable Development Reserve
The Juma Sustainable Development Reserve ( pt, Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Juma is a sustainable development reserve in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. It supports sustainable extraction of the forest resources by the traditional population. It is the first in Brazil to be funded by a REDD (Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation) Project. Location The Juma Sustainable Development Reserve (Juma RDS) is in the municipality of Novo Aripuanã in the state of Amazonas. It has an area of . The Mariepauá River, a tributary of the Madeira River, defines the western boundary of the reserve, and the Acari River defines the eastern boundary. The reserve extends north to the Madeira. The northern part of the Aripuanã River runs through the reserve before entering the Madeira near the municipal seat of Novo Aripuanã. The Arauá River, a tributary of the Aripuanã, also runs north through the reserve. The Aripuanã National Forest is to the south of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Itapanhapima Sustainable Development Reserve
The Itapanhapima Sustainable Development Reserve ( pt, Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável de Itapanhapima) is a sustainable development reserve in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. It protects an area of mangrove forests and supports a traditional extractive population. Location The Itapanhapima Sustainable Development Reserve is in the municipality of Cananéia, São Paulo. It has an area of . It adjoins the Ilha do Tumba Extractive Reserve to the west. It supports the artisanal fishermen of the area. The reserve is in the Cananéia lagoon estuary, an important nursery for fish and aquatic mammals. It contains large mangrove swamps managed by the traditional populations of the reserve and used by some families for extraction of the native oyster and uçá crab. History The Itapanhapima Sustainable Development Reserve was created by state law 12.810 of 21 February 2008. This law broke up the old Jacupiranga State Park and created the Jacupiranga Mosaic The Jacupiranga Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igapó-Açu Sustainable Development Reserve
The Igapó-Açu Sustainable Development Reserve ( pt, Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável Igapó-Açu) is a sustainable development reserve in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. It is part of a "green barrier" created to prevent deforestation along the BR-319 highway. Location The Igapó-Açu Sustainable Development Reserve is divided between the municipalities of Manicoré (21.9%), Borba (21%) and Beruri (57.1%) in the state of Amazonas. It has an area of . The reserve covers a corridor of land along both sides of a stretch of the BR-319 highway. The Matupiri State Park adjoins it to the south. In the southeast it adjoins the Rio Amapá Sustainable Development Reserve and the Nascentes do Lago Jari National Park. The vegetation is mainly Amazon rainforest. The residents are mainly farmers, either leaseholders or small landowners. History The Igapó-Açu Sustainable Development Reserve was created by Amazonas state decree 28420 of 27 March 2009. The conservation unit, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
