The Alto Tarauacá Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista do Alto Tarauacá) is an
extractive reserve in the state of
Acre, Brazil.
Location
The Alto Tarauacá Extractive Reserve is divided between the municipalities of
Tarauacá
Tarauacá () is a municipality located in the northwest of the Brazilian state
The federative units of Brazil ( pt, unidades federativas do Brasil) are subnational entities with a certain degree of autonomy (self-government, self-regulation a ...
(37.63%),
Marechal Thaumaturgo
Marechal Thaumaturgo (, English: ''Marshal Thaumaturgo'') is a municipality located in the west of the Brazilian state of Acre. Its population is 19,299 and its area is 7,744 km².
The municipality contains 5% of the Serra do Divisor Natio ...
(4.64%) and
Jordão (62.37%) in the state of Acre.
It has an area of .
The
Tarauacá River
Tarauacá River ( pt, Rio Tarauacá is a river of Amazonas and Acre states in western Brazil. The ''Rio Tarauacá'' is a tributary of the Juruá River, which itself flows into the Amazon.
Course
The headwaters of the Tarauacá are located nea ...
runs through the south of the reserve, then forms the eastern boundary of the north part of the reserve.
The southwest of the reserve adjoins the
Alto Juruá Extractive Reserve.
The northwest of the reserve adjoins the
Riozinho da Liberdade Extractive Reserve
Riozinho is a municipality in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
See also
*List of municipalities in Rio Grande do Sul
This is a list of the municipalities in the state of Rio Grande do Sul (RS), located in the South Region of Brazil. Rio G ...
.
The reserve would be included in the proposed
Western Amazon Ecological Corridor.
History
The Alto Tarauacá Extractive Reserve was created by decree on 8 November 2000 with an area of about to ensure sustainable exploitation and conservation of renewable natural resources traditionally used by extractive populations.
The reserve is classed as
IUCN protected area category
IUCN protected area categories, or IUCN protected area management categories, are categories used to classify protected areas in a system developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The enlisting of such areas is par ...
VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources).
An extractive reserve is an area used by traditional extractive populations whose livelihood is based on the extraction,
subsistence agriculture and breeding small animals.
Its basic objectives are to protect the livelihoods and culture of these populations, and to ensure the sustainable use of natural resources.
The
Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária
The Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária - INCRA (''National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform'') is a federal government authority of the public administration of Brazil. INCRA administers the land reform issues.
...
(National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform – INCRA) recognised the reserve on 3 November 2003 as meeting the agro-extraction needs of 170 families.
This was corrected on 19 December 2006 to allow for 300 families.
A working group to administer the reserve was created on 4 December 2006.
The deliberative council was created on 14 December 2010.
The reserve is administered by the
Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation
The Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation (Portuguese: ''Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade'', ICMBio) is the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment's administrative arm."Brazilian Federal Law 11.516/2007 (Por ...
.
It is supported by the
Amazon Region Protected Areas Program.
The reserve helps reduce illegal and predatory extraction of hardwood, especially cedar and mahogany.
Economy
The nearest school is in the town of Jordão.
About 30% of the population are illiterate.
25% of the population are aged between 7 and 14, but only 10% attend school.
90% of families use river or stream water, and only 10% use a well or spring.
About 80% have no water filter in their home.
Only 7% have an outhouse or latrine.
The main extracted products are rubber and nuts.
Other forest products are extracted in smaller quantities.
The residents grow beans, rice and cassava, and market their surplus.
They raise ducks, chickens, pigs, sheep, goats, donkeys and horses.
Transport is difficult, particularly in the dry season from June to September.
Most tappers routinely hunt
paca,
pig
The pig (''Sus domesticus''), often called swine, hog, or domestic pig when distinguishing from other members of the genus '' Sus'', is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal. It is variously considered a subspecies of ''Sus ...
s and
pampas deer
The Pampas deer (''Ozotoceros bezoarticus'') is a species of deer that live in the grasslands of South America at low elevations.Geist, Valerius. Deer of the world their evolution, behaviour, and ecology'. Mechanicsburg, Pa: Stackpole Books, 1998 ...
, and 90% of households consume fish from the streams and lakes.
See also
*
Matsés National Reserve
Notes
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2000 establishments in Brazil
Extractive reserves of Brazil
Protected areas of Acre (state)