The Bom Futuro National Forest ( pt, Floresta Nacional do Bom Futuro) is a
national forest in the state of
Rondônia, Brazil.
The forest has been subject to a massive invasion of loggers, ranchers and farmers.
Location
The Bom Futuro National Forest is divided between the municipalities of
Buritis
Buritis is a municipality in northern Minas Gerais state in Brazil. It is located just south of the Urucuia River, which is a tributary of the São Francisco River.
Location
Surrounding municipalities are Formoso, Arinos, Unaí, and Formo ...
and
Porto Velho
Porto Velho (, ''Old Port'') is the capital of the Brazilian state of Rondônia, in the upper Amazon River basin, and a Catholic Metropolitan Archbishopric. The population is 548,952 people (as of the IBGE 2021 estimation). Located on the border of ...
, Rondônia.
It has an area of .
It adjoins the
Rio Pardo Environmental Protection Area to the south, the
Jaci Paraná Extractive Reserve to the southwest and the Karitiana Indigenous Territory to the west.
The forest would be included in the proposed
Western Amazon Ecological Corridor
The Western Amazon Ecological Corridor ( pt, Corredor Oeste da Amazônia) is a proposed ecological corridor connecting conservation units and indigenous territories in the southwest of the Amazon rainforest of Brazil.
Background
The first versi ...
, connecting it to neighboring conservation units.
The forest holds the sources of tributaries of the
Jamari River
The Jamari River is a river of Rondônia state in western Brazil.
Part of the river's watershed is covered by the Jacundá National Forest, a sustainable use conservation unit.
The Jamari river is dammed by the Samuel Hydroelectric Dam near Po ...
via the
Candeias River
The Candeias River is a river of Rondônia state in western Brazil.
The river flows into the Rio Jamari just downstream of the Samuel dam and reservoir, shortly after passing through the village of Candeis do Jamari. The region is known for its ...
, and of the
Jaci Paraná River via the
Rio Branco.
The forest was relatively intact in 1995.
The original vegetation was mainly open submontane rainforest and dense submontane rainforest, with savanna/rainforest contact, open alluvial rainforest and pioneer alluvial formations.
Land invasion
From 2000 an invasion began first of loggers, then of squatters and land speculators, supported by local politicians.
The urban settlement of Rio Pardo developed inside the forest, with more than ten sawmills and with associations to promote allocation of land to farmers and ranchers.
The
(IBAMA) attempted to expel the invaders on at least two occasions, but was unsuccessful in part due to lack of funding from the headquarters of the agency.
By 2003 some sawmills had been closed, but Rio Pardo was now a normal settlement with shops, a gas station, hotel, telephones and other public services.
According to
Imazon
Imazon (Amazon Institute of People and the Environment, pt, Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazônia) is a non-profit organisation based in Belém, Pará, Brazil, that is dedicated to conserving the Amazon rainforest. It has published many ...
by 2007 about of the forest had been cleared, or 32% of the total area, at an annual rate of 4.34% deforestation from 2002 to 2007.
In April 2007 IBAMA listed 236 ranchers operating illegally in the forest, with about 18,600 cattle.
Legislative history
The Bom Futuro National Forest was created by federal decree 96.188 of 21 June 1988 with an estimated area of .
It 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 ...
(ICMBio).
It 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).
The objective is to support sustainable multiple use of forest resources, and scientific research with emphasis on methods for sustainable exploitation of native forests.
On 15 July 2009 a working group was created with the objective of solving the social and environmental problems caused by the illegal occupation of the forest.
Ordnance 3109 of 29 September 2009 authorized use of the national public security forces to support IBAMA in curbing deforestation.
Law 12249 of 11 June 2010 amended the limits of the forest, reducing its area from to about .
The road linking the settlement of Rio Pardo to
BR-364
BR-364 is an inter-state highway in Brazil connecting the southeast state of São Paulo to the western state of Acre. The highway was opened in the 1960s and paved in the 1980s. It has brought economic development and population growth in the Amaz ...
was excluded, as was an area of that had previously overlapped with the Karitiana Indigenous Territory..
Law 2894 created a program to compensate families relocated from the forest.
Ordnance 138 of 15 December 2014 created the consultative council for the forest.
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National forests of Brazil
Protected areas of Rondônia
1988 establishments in Brazil