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 BR-319 is an federal highway that links Manaus, Amazonas to Porto Velho, Rondônia. The highway runs through a pristine part of the Amazon rainforest. It was opened by the military government in 1973 but soon deteriorated, and by 1988 was impassi ...

highway from Porto Velho to

Manaus Manaus () is the capital and largest city of the Brazilian state of Amazonas. It is the seventh-largest city in Brazil, with an estimated 2020 population of 2,219,580 distributed over a land area of about . Located at the east center of the s ...

, which was suspended by

Carlos Minc Carlos Minc Baumfeld (born July 12, 1951) is a Brazilian geographer, professor, environmentalist, politician and Minister of Environment in Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's second term as president of Brazil. Personal life Minc was born on July 12, 19 ...

, the Minister of the Environment. Minc defended what he called a "green pocket" around the highway. Construction of roads in the forests elsewhere had often encouraged deforestation, with a "herringbone" pattern of logging roads radiating from the highway. Thus the paving of BR-163 from Cuiabá, Mato Grosso to Santarém, Pará had increased deforestation in the area by 500%. The state-level conservation units in the BR-319 corridor are the Piagaçu-Purus, Rio Amapá, Rio Madeira, Igapó-Açu, and Matupiri sustainable development reserves,

Canutama Extractive Reserve The Canutama Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista Canutama is an extractive reserve in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Location The Canutama Extractive Reserve is in the municipality of Canutama, Amazonas. It has an area of . The reserv ...

Canutama State Forest The Canutama State Forest ( pt, Floresta Estadual Canutama) is a state forest in the state of Amazonas, Brazil. Location The Canutama State Forest is divided between the municipalities of Tapauá (6.65%) and Canutama (93.35%) in the state of Am ...

, Tapauá State Forest, and Matupiri State Park. In December 2012 the Amazonas state government allocated more than R$6 million to these nine units, covering and 143 communities, to be coordinated by the State Center for Conservation Units (CEUC). The funding was for development of management plans, creation of management councils, environmental monitoring, land survey, and production and marketing. The management plan for the Matupiri Sustainable Development Reserve was approved on 22 July 2014.

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* * * {{authority control Protected areas of Amazonas (Brazilian state) Sustainable development reserves of Brazil 2009 establishments in Brazil