The Araí-Peroba Marine Extractive Reserve () is a coastal marine

extractive reserve An extractive reserve ( or RESEX) is a type of sustainable use protected area in Brazil. The land is publicly owned, but the people who live there have the right to traditional extractive practices, such as hunting, fishing and harvesting wild pla ...

in the state of

Pará Pará () is a Federative units of Brazil, state of Brazil, located in northern Brazil and traversed by the lower Amazon River. It borders the Brazilian states of Amapá, Maranhão, Tocantins (state), Tocantins, Mato Grosso, Amazonas (Brazilian st ...

, Brazil.

Location

The Araí-Peroba Marine Extractive Reserve is in the municipality of Augusto Corrêa, Pará. It has an area of . It protects the coast and inlets around the east of the Baía do Caeté, and around the Baía de Emboraí and Baía do Chum. It adjoins the

Caeté-Taperaçu Marine Extractive Reserve The Caeté-Taperaçu Marine Extractive Reserve () is a coastal marine Extractive reserve (Brazil), extractive reserve in the state of Pará, Brazil. Location The Caeté-Taperaçu Marine Extractive Reserve is in the municipality of Bragança, Par ...

to the west and the Gurupi-Piriá Marine Extractive Reserve to the east. The mangroves include ''

Avicennia germinans ''Avicennia germinans'', the black mangrove, is a shrub or small tree growing up to 12 meters (39 feet) in the acanthus family, Acanthaceae. It grows in tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas, on both the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts ...

'', '' Avicennia schaueriana'', ''

Laguncularia racemosa ''Laguncularia'' is a genus of plants in the family Combretaceae. The only species in the genus is ''Laguncularia racemosa'', the white mangrove. It is native to the coasts of western Africa from Senegal to Cameroon, the Atlantic Coast of the Am ...

'' and ''

Rhizophora mangle ''Rhizophora mangle'', also known as the red mangrove, is a salt-tolerant, small-to-medium sized evergreen tree restricted to coastal, estuarine ecosystems along the southern portions of North America, the Caribbean as well as Central America ...

''. The last is the most common. The reserve has cellular telephone coverage and electricity. The community fishes and uses non-timber products.

History

The Araí-Peroba Marine Extractive Reserve was created by federal decree on 20 May 2005. 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 a government agency under the administration of the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment. It is nam ...

(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 part ...

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 extraction, subsistence agriculture and small-scale animal raising. Its basic objectives are to protect the livelihoods and culture of these people and to ensure sustainable use of natural resources. The reserve was recognised by 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. ...

(INCRA: National Institute for Colonisation and Agrarian Reform) on 29 November 2005 as meeting the needs of 900 families of small rural producers, who would qualify for

PRONAF The agricultural sector in Brazil is historically one of the principal bases of Economy of Brazil, Brazil's economy. In 2024, Brazil was the second-biggest grain exporter in the world, with 19% of the international market share, and the fourth ...

support. The deliberative council was created on 12 June 2007. On 23 March 2010 ICMBio granted the users' association the right to use the reserve for twenty years. The reserve was expanded by about by decree on 10 October 2014. The expansion was authorised by president

Dilma Rousseff Dilma Vana Rousseff (; born 14 December 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the only woman to have held the ...

thirteen days before the 2014 presidential elections. On the same day she created the Mocapajuba, Mestre Lucindo and Cuinarana marine extractive reserves, also in Pará.

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* * * * {{authority control 2005 establishments in Brazil Marine extractive reserves of Brazil Protected areas of Pará Protected areas established in 2005