Conservation
Projects:
- Amazon Region Protected
Area Program (ARPA) (as of 09/19/02, courtesy of WWF):
- launched
by the Brazilian Government during the recent World Summit Conference on
Sustainable Development recently held in Johannesburg, South Africa
- main partners: WWF-Brazil, the World Bank and GEF (Global Environment Facility)
- will protect 12% of the Brazilian Amazon Forest by 2012
- estimated
cost of the program is US$ 395 million over the
next 10 years
- creation of a Fiduciary Fund, generating an income to assure
the future maintenance and conservation of the protected areas
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- locations
defined in a technical study made by Ibama
- created
the Cazumbá-Iracema Extractive Reserve
- located
between the Purus and Macauã Rivers and crossed over by the Caetê
River
- total
area of 7.5 thousand sq. km
- was
defined in the land use plan of the state of Acre (Ecologic Economic Zoning) <-- {cooperation with local government}
- an
area where biodiversity conservation is carried out together with the sustainable
use of natural resources (such as rubber tapping
and Brazil nut collection)
- increased the area of the Uatumã Biological Reserve
- borders
the Balbina hydro-electric power plant reservoir
- total
area of 9.4 thousand sq. km
- 45 thousand sq. km (or 4.5 million hectares) of strict use
protected areas (such as national parks and
biological reserves)
- 15 thousand sq. km (or 1.5 million hectares) of sustainable
development protected areas (such as extractive reserves)
- the creation of the 38,867 sq km Tumucumaque National Park,
the world’s largest tropical forest park
- the
creation of the Jatuarana National Forest (in the state of Amazonas), with
8.4 thousand sq. km of area to be used for sustainable timber extraction (not part of ARPA)
- The ARPA Program (2002 – 2012) will:
- Protect 500 thousand sq. km (or 50 million hectares) of Amazon
rainforest - an area equal in size to Spain, or twice as big as the United
Kingdom, or almost twice the size of the State of Texas, in the USA – by
creating a mosaic of strict-use protected areas (national parks, biological
reserves and the like) and sustainable use protected areas (extrative reserves
and sustainable use reserves, where local communities can improve their
income by sustainably exploiting natural resources while maintaining their
cultural heritage) as follows:
- Creation and implementation of 285 thousand sq. km of new
strict-use protected areas;
- Creation and implementation of 90 thousand sq. km of new sustainable
use protected areas;
- Implementation of 125 thousand sq. km of already existing
strict-use protected areas;
- It means to triple the amount of rainforest already protected
in the Brazilian Amazon, from 4% to 12%;
- And to protect 3.6% of the world´s remaining tropical
forests;
- ARPA will also:
- Create a Fiduciary Fund to secure the long-term financial
viability of the protected areas. Once protected areas are consolidated,
they will be elegible to receive the Fund’s profits to cover their maintenance.
It is the first time such fund is created in Brazil;
- Establish a participatory scheme open to local communities
and other stakeholders to be part of the decision-making process regarding
the creation and implementation of protected areas;
- Establish a biodiversity monitoring and evaluation system
at protected area and regional levels;
- ARPA is estimated to cost US$ 395 million;
- The World Bank and WWF have committed to raise US$70 million
each to help meet the long-term target, in addition to funds already allocated
to ARPA’s Phase I.
- ARPA’s Phase I (2002 – 2006) will:
- Create 90 thousand sq. km of new strict-use protected areas,
a 75% increase over existing areas;
- Create 90 thousand sq. km of new sustainable use protected
areas, a 250% increase over existing areas;
- Implement 70 thousand sq. km of existing protected areas,
benefiting 20 parks and reserves;
- Increase the forest area under protection from 4% to 8.4%;
- Will cost US$ 81.5 million, with funds provided by the Brazilian
Government (US$ 18.1 million), GEF (US$ 30 million), WWF (US$ 16.5 million),
German bilateral agency KfW (US$ 14.4 million) other donors (US$ 2.5 million).
Source: The above information is from the World Wildlife Fund-Brazil.
Retrieved October 16th, 2002, from http://www.wwf.org.br/english/amazonia/default.htm.
- Monitoring and Analysis Project {information courtesy of World Bank}:
- Approval Date: 12/08/1998
- Closing Date: 12/31/2003
- Integrated Monitoring
- Studies and Analyses
- Dissemination
- is intended to disseminate strategic lessons generated by the
Pilot Program to relevant target audiences in Brazil and internationally,
so that such lessons can be applied on a larger scale. This component
will be implemented in collaboration with other Pilot Program projects
and agencies, as well as public and private media organizations. The two
audiences targeted for dissemination are: (i) decision makers, including
project managers and donors associated with the Pilot Program and policy
makers at the federal, state and local level whose decisions influence
the use of tropical forests in Brazil; and (ii) resource users in the
Amazon and Atlantic forest regions, ranging from company executives and
large landowners to low-income rural communities. Lessons will be disseminated
directly through a series of technical booklets and technical briefing
notes, as well as in collaboration with other Pilot Program projects actively
engaged in disseminating results, and through partnerships with media organizations
that broadcast by newspaper, radio and television. The impacts of dissemination
will be evaluated to reveal the degree of absorption and application of strategic
lessons by target audiences.
Source: The above information
is from the World Bank. Retrieved October 21st, 2002, from http://www4.worldbank.org/sprojects/Project.asp?pid=P044289.
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