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... ors in highlighting the importance of the areas and be protected in Pontal do Paranapanema. The creation of biodiversity corridors (Corridors for Life) is a strategy to help the tamarins move ar ...
Created on 19 October 2022
... the project is the fact that the species integrates the list of mammals used to guide the creation of protected areas and conservation corridors in South Mato Grosso. With the project Flags and Highways, ...
Created on 29 March 2022
... f Dreams for Pontal, composed of images that indicate where forest corridors, small forests or protection strips around the remaining native forests must be planted. We also look for influencing publ ...
Created on 15 March 2022
... is already underway, crossing roads that cut through green areas for the use of the species. These passages connect to the forest corridors to guarantee even more space for the tamarins and other species ...
Created on 15 December 2021
WeForest’s Project Manager in Brazil, Cristina Yuri Vidal, has visited, in May, areas of native trees planted in Atlantic forest biome. Reforested trees form corridors of life, that connect rural properties to Morro do Diabo State Park, in Pontal of Paranapanema - west side of State of São Paulo. With the corridors, IPE looks to conserve species of black lion tamarins, jaguars, tapirs, and others.
Visiting is a way to check the work developed by IPE, who receives resources from WeForest to invest in the Dream Map .
Guided by the map created by its researchers, IPE’s goal in the long-term is to reforest 60 thousand acres in Pontal of Paranapanema. There is 3,000 acres to begin with and 900 acres were reforested using resources raised by WeForest.
The partnership between WeForest and IPE started 7 years ago. Read more here. Regarding the future, Cristina believes there are great expectation to the project’s continuity, since one of the characteristics of WeForest is to invest in long-term jobs.
Created on 05 July 2021
... access to rural landowners, who provides portions of their land to be reforested and form corridors of life. The New Forest Code in the state of São Paulo determines that rural properties must preserv ...
Created on 05 July 2021
... so that the planted forests connect to the native fragments and form corridors of life. Such corridors are essential for the conservation of species such as the black lion tamarin (Lentopithecus chrysopygus) ...
Created on 02 July 2021
... For over more than 20 years, along with the development of forest corridors in the Pontal do Paranapanema region, IPÊ has encouraged the formation of 11 forest nurseries and has been closely monitoring ...
Created on 25 June 2021
... forest engineer and dedicates his profession to restoring one of the most fragmented areas of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, Pontal do Paranapanema, in the West of São Paulo. With the Corridors for Life ...
Created on 16 December 2020
... lion tamarins by carrying out scientific research, environmental education, and forest restoration. With the collaboration with local communities, IPE restores forest corridors that connect several native ...
Created on 29 April 2020
... leading to in-breeding and genetic weakening of the species. Laury is now scaling up his approach, developing more forest corridors, connecting vital Atlantic forest fragments for the black lion tamarin ...
Created on 15 February 2020
Planting started in March will form the new 500-hectare north corridor
One of IPE’s most significant results in its 27-year existence is the Atlantic Forest Corridor in the Pontal do Paranapanema. It is the largest ecologic corridor formed by restored forest in Brazil and it connects two protected areas: the Black Lion Tamarin Ecological Station and the Morro do Diabo State Park, helping to mitigate the negative effects of deforestation in the region. With a length of 20 km and containing more than 2.7 million trees, the corridor helps to protect not only the forests but also the endangered species of the region, such as the black lion tamarin and the jaguar. With this initiative, these species can now roam safely between the two large protected areas, increasing their chance to find food and reproductive partners.
The effectiveness of this large corridor will be augmented by another corridor that is being planted. This new corridor, called the “North Corridor” (called so because it is located near the northern tip of the Morro do Diabo State Park), will comprise 500 hectares and more than 1 million trees along 3 kilometers of Atlantic forest corridor.
The first trees of the North Corridor are being planted in the Legal Reserve area of Estrela Farm, a cattle ranch with an area of roughly 2,400 ha of which approximately 800 ha are legally designated to preserve the native vegetation. Part of this area of 800 ha that needs to be preserved by the owner is located between the Black Lion Tamarin Ecological Station (Agua Sumida fragment) and the Santa Maria I forest fragment, both of which are within a 13 km radius of the Morro do Diabo State Park. To choose which areas will be restored, IPE has created a map that points out the sites with the highest potential for increased habitat connectivity interspersed with the areas that need to be restored by law. The financial resources are provided by Atvos, a sugarcane mill company, via the Nascentes Program, a São Paulo State Program for the conservation of water springs, with international support from WeForest, the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, the Sustainable Lush Fund and the Disney Conservation Fund.
Capacity building and income generation
Besides the forest restoration, the North Corridor project has other important activities, such as capacity building in agroecology and environmental education for 300 farmers and students. Allied to this, there is income generation for the involved communities, as native species seedlings are produced in community nurseries and sold to the market.
“Due to an uncontrolled occupation, the Pontal do Paranapanema has suffered a significant reduction of its forest cover, with only 1.85% of the original forest remaining. The occupation dynamics has resulted in a regional landscape where several water bodies and forest fragments are being surrounded and encroached by rural settlements and other properties. This occupation, if it does not take into account the environment, risks losing everything that remains in the land, the forests and the water. That is why it is necessary to establish a sustainable rural development based on agroecology that encourages alternative income generation processes, as is the case of the community nurseries”, contends Laury Cullen Jr., coordinator of the project.
Community nurseries are social undertakings that aim to improve the social, economic and environmental development of the families living in the land reform settlements in the region. Such undertakings help to diversify the traditional agriculture by producing and selling seedlings of native and exotic species for reforestation, while IPE’s team simultaneously develops environmental education activities and capacity building of the farmers, teaching them the principles of associativism and agroecology.
Currently, there are 8 community nurseries in settlements of the region. Most of them are the result of cooperation among several families, but there are also private nurseries created by farmers that were trained in the free-of-charge courses given by IPE. In total, the nurseries can produce ca. 800 thousand seedlings per year.
“We always assume in our projects that the local community will be involved, be it through environmental education or through the development of alternative income generation. For example, when we began to plant the first corridor, we helped to implement the first community nurseries of the region. Today, the seedling producers are independent, and they sell their seedlings to other projects like ours”, explains Laury.
The North Corridor Project also aims to influence public policies by acting with the Nascentes Program of the São Paulo State government to preserve endangered species and restore fragmented landscapes in the Atlantic Forest biome.
Created on 02 April 2019
... large mammals such as tapirs and jaguars, as attested by studies using camera traps. Use of the corridors by the black lion tamarins is being studied, but as the species uses hollows in old large trees ...
Created on 27 February 2019
The corridors project seeks to solve the lack of connectivity between forestry fragments, restoring degraded Permanent Preservation Areas and Legal Reservations in rural properties. The priority areas for restoration are identified by the "Dream Map", created by IPÊ. To implement the corridor, saplings used come from eleven community nurseries established and supported by the Institute, producing 400,000 saplings of native species each year.
The project promotes the conservation of forest resources, water resources, neutralization of CO2 emissions (carbon dioxide) and the guarantee of environmental services in public-private areas in the context of the Atlantic Rainforest Protected Areas in the West of São Paulo.
The project activities also involve the following strategies:
Created on 09 March 2017
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Created on 27 January 2017
... ::ac_texto_acordeon|1|ac_acordeon:: Ethno-Botany and Agro-Forestry Project Management (FNMA – National Fund for the Environment) Ecological Corridors Project (Ministry of the Environment) Conservation ...
Created on 25 January 2017
... la Nova de Chita. FNMA – National Fund for the Environment/ MMA – Ministry of the Environment PCE - Ecological Corridors Project / MMA SEBRAE - Brazilian Service to Support Micro and Small Compan ...
Created on 25 January 2017
... o - Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation - Technical Cooperation in Anavilhanas National Park. MTur –Ministry of Tourism PCE –Ecological Corridors Project / MMA – Ministry of the Environme ...
Created on 25 January 2017
... the ecological corridors that improve the connectivity of biodiversity through the fragmented landscape. Some individuals were captured and fitted with radio collars in order to more easily track their ...
Created on 25 January 2017
... n) that is maintained using strategies that promote connectivity, such as forest corridors planted between fragments, translocations and reintroductions of BLT groups. This management also includes capt ...
Created on 25 January 2017