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 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 ...

, 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 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 t ...

biome.. It protects parts of the municipalities of: * Montezuma (54.72%) *

Rio Pardo de Minas Rio Pardo de Minas is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Its population in 2020 was 31,045 inhabitants in a total area of . Location The elevation is . It became a municipality in 1831. The postal code (CEP) i ...

(28.8%) *

Vargem Grande do Rio Pardo Vargem Grande do Rio Pardo is a municipality in the northeast of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. Location Vargem Grande do Rio Pardo has a total area of 494 km². The elevation is 800 meters. It became a municipality in 1997. It is p ...

(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 ''Caryocar brasiliense'', known as pequi (, ) or "souari nut", like its congeners, is an edible fruit popular in some areas of Brazil, especially in Centerwestern Brazil. Taxonomy The pequi tree grows up to 10 m (30 ft) tall. It i ...

'' 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

Serra do Gandarela National Park Serra do Gandarela National Park ( pt, Parque Nacional da Serra do Gandarela) is a national park in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. It protects a mountainous region holding a remnant of Atlantic Forest that is an important source of water for th ...

in Minas Gerais and the

Guaricana National Park The Guaricana National Park ( pt, Parque Nacional Guaricana) is a national park in the state of Paraná, Brazil. It protects a mountainous area holding a remnant of Atlantic Forest. Location The Guaricana National Park covers parts of the munici ...

in Paraná, and added over to the existing

Médio Juruá Extractive Reserve The Médio Juruá Extractive Reserve ( pt, Reserva Extrativista Médio Juruá) is an extractive reserve in the state of Amazonas Brazil. Location The Médio Juruá Extractive Reserve is in the municipality of Carauari in the state of Amazonas. ...

in Amazonas. The Nascentes Geraizeiras RDS 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). 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 part ...

VI (protected area with sustainable use of natural resources). The purpose is to protect the water sources in the reserve, protect areas used for extraction by the traditional communities, give the traditional communities access to the reserve and promote their social and economic development, encourage studies on conservation and sustainable use of the cerrado and promote conservation of biodiversity.

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* * * * {{authority control Sustainable development reserves of Brazil Protected areas of Minas Gerais Cerrado Protected areas established in 2014 2014 establishments in Brazil