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WWF-BRASIL IN THE AMAZON Human well-being and nature conservation

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Mauro Armelin

Head of Communications

Regina Cavini (interina)

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Ligia Paes de Barros

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Translation

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Editing and proofreading

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Mariana Napolitano Ferreira


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WWF-Brasil in the Amazon: human well-being and nature conservation – Page 1

2012 is the year of the Rio+20 conference. Governments and civil society organisations will be meeting again, twenty years after the Rio Eco

92 conference, to evaluate progress, learn from the mistakes and seek for ways of implementing a ‘green economy’ that will be capable of guaranteeing food and energy security in ways that are harmonious with the conservation of the environment.

For more than 15 years WWF-Brasil has dedicated its efforts to this cause, implementing practical projects and creating successful and replicable sustainable development experiences; all contributing to create a propitious context for the emergence of a forest-based ‘green economy’.

By means of a series of conservation programmes, the organisation fosters innovative initiatives in territorial planning, promoting the conciliation of protected areas and productive areas and supporting governments and companies in their bids to change their productive and regulatory practices for the better.

Because of its unparalleled environmental and cultural wealth, the Brazilian Amazon is one of WWF-Brasil’s top priority areas for its efforts to ensure environment conservation.

With the background of 40 years of WWF Network’s presence in the Amazon region, WWF-Brasil unfolds a series of projects, under the aegis of its Amazon Programme, that are designed to promote simple, viable, alternative ways of generating income for families that live in the forests, and to contribute to the establishment of adequate land use patterns and the conservation of large areas of forest, all of which are basic prerequisites for food, energy and climate security.

In this portfolio of Amazon Programme actions, we present a series of activities and experiences that have been unfolded and developed over the last years and the results that were obtained in 2011. Those results will support actions and identify alternatives for facing up to the global challenge of effectively achieving development and an economy that are green and sustainable.

Good reading.

FOREWORD

Because of its unparalleled

environmental and cultural wealth, the

Brazilian Amazon is one of WWF-Brasil’s

top priority areas for its efforts to ensure the conservation of the environment.”

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Mauro J. Capóssoli

Armelin Head of the

Amazon Programme


CONTENTS

Foreword 1

15 years dedicated to Amazon conservation 4

SUSTAINABLE USE 6Community production chains 7

Forest Management 9

Responsible practices for a new

agricultural and cattle production 11

Payment for environmental services 13

LANDSCAPE MANAGEMENT 14Creation and management of protected areas 15

Territorial Management 17

Implementation of Protected Areas’ Systems 19

ARPA Programme 21

PUBLICATIONS 22

TEAM 26


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Support for the creation of Brazil’s biggest national park, the Montanhas do Tumucumaque National Park (state of Amapa), and the world’s biggest tropical forest conservation programme, the ARPA, as well as a considerable raise in the consumption of Amazonian wood that is properly certified, and increased income for riverside community dwellers, are just some of the important

achievements stemming from these years of dedication.

WWF-Brasil’s Amazon Programme began its work with small projects, few collaborators and the valuable support represented by the 40-year long active presence of the WWF Network in the region. A radio programme and an environmental education project in the state of Amazonas helped to begin spreading the message of the importance of preserving the environment in the region.

Later community management programmes began and also the support for infrastructure, essential to the implementation of the protected areas. After many years, in 2001, the first regional office was set up in the city of Rio Branco, capital of the Amazonian state of Acre.

15 YEARS DEDICATED TO AMAZON CONSERVATION

Towards an improvement in human well-being and biodiversity and

ecosystems’ conservation in the Brazilian part

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Today the Amazon Programme can also count on a base in Manaus and is active in five distinct Amazonian regions – Tumucumaque (Amapa state), Acre-Purus (Acre state), Juruena-Apuí (Mato Grosso and Amazonas states), Four Rivers – Solimões (Amazonas state) and Terra do Meio (Para state), addressing the following issues:

• Natural resource management;• Best land use practices related to agriculture and livestock

production;• Promoting territorial management mechanisms;• Implementation and consolidation of priority protected areas;• Reinforcing state and national protected areas systems;• Promoting forest and environmental policies;• Awareness raising and social engagement;• Promoting financial compensation instruments.

Partnerships established with government bodies and non-governmental

organisations with activities in the region are of fundamental importance

to achieving good results. Equally important is the support of the donors

who believe in the organisation’s mission and support its work.

Get to know more about the work that is being done in the pages that follow.

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WWF-Brasil’s Amazon Programme supports production chains, forest management, good practices in agricultural and livestock production and payment for environmental services.


COMMUNITY PRODUCTION CHAINS

eliminating the intermediary processes traditionally operated by processing plants, the FDL system produces better quality rubber at a lower cost and makes it possible for rubber tappers’ cooperatives and associations to sell directly to industry. The 2010 rubber harvest in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve was 14 thousand kilos, 130% higher than the year before and generated a gross amount of R$ 115 thousand (approximately US$ 70 thousand). A company that dominates half the rubber band market in Brazil has ordered one thousand kilos of FDL rubber for its first

tests of manufacturing products using FDL-type rubber and it is proposing a biennial contract to guarantee the production of 25 thousand kilos for 2011 and 2012 harvests.

SUS TA I N A BL E USE

WWF-Brasil’s Amazon Programme supports production chains of Brazil nuts, copaiba oil, natural rubber, assai palm and pirarucu fish, all of which play an important role in the subsistence of traditional Amazonian communities and in fostering forest conservation. Among the actions unfolded are capacity building, organisational development, stimulating the adoption of better practices and intermediating negotiations between producers and possible purchasers.

The Copaiba oil chain: The work undertaken with the copaiba production chain has enhanced local partners’ capacity to supply better quality copaiba oil and also given them access to markets. After five years of work dedicated to determining the sustainable levels of resource management, best low-impact oil extraction techniques and to improve cooperative management, the last two years have been dedicated to intensifying market-related actions. As a result, in 2011, production surpassed the mark of 2 thousand tons extracted from a managed area of around 15,000 hectares and it was responsible for 10% of the family incomes of those involved, the equivalent to R$ 400 (approximately US$ 250). The oil is produced according to environmental sustainability criteria and it can be tracked from the point of extraction in the forest right through to the final stage of sale.

The Natural FDL-type Rubber chain also achieved good results. In addition to

There are various stages between the extraction of the raw material and having a product ready for the market. Those interconnected stages make up a sequence known as the production chain.

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Through the Amazon Programme, WWF-Brasil and various other entities, is supporting the State of São Paulo’s ‘Madeira é Legal’ programme - which is stimulating the preferential use of certified wood with the FSC standard, the most widely recognised green certification in the world.


FOREST MANAGEMENT

state of São Paulo has significantly reduced the entry of illegal timber into the state: in the year 2010, São Paulo construction companies consumed 750 truckloads of tropical timber all either certified or with proven legal origin.

Law enforcement is also important. To reinforce the work of environmental inspection agents in the state of Mato Grosso, WWF-Brasil and its partners organised and held a course for the Identification of Different Wood Types in 2011. Up until then, difficulties in identifying wood species had impeded much of the surveillance work and the issuing of environmental licences. The agents learned to detect the characteristics of the species most frequently traded in Mato Grosso, such as cedar, garapeira, locust and Brazil nut, on the basis of colour, smell, density and texture.


Under forest management schemes tree-cutting is limited and planned in order to ensure maintenance of the forest and the environmental services. Certified wood is a guarantee that whoever was responsible for cutting of the trees respected forest management rules.

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The Amazon Programme supports certified wood production chains in the state of Acre by means of a partnership with the Acre Forest Producers Cooperative, the Cooperfloresta.

In 2011, forest management schemes involving four local communities achieved a gross income of almost R$ 112 thousand (approximately US$ 67 thousand) in a managed area of over 1,200 hectares of forest.

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By means of a Programme entitled Native Planted Forests, WWF-Brasil and its partners held debates, and organised activities for exchanging experiences in the Acre-Purus region all contributing to the production of the document ‘Agro-forestry Menu’.


RESPONSIBLE PRACTICES FOR A NEW AGRICULTURAL AND CATTLE PRODUCTION

intensive use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers and yet still generate sufficient income to sustain the family adequately.

• In the municipality of Apiacás, in the state of Mato Grosso, 20 local smallholders attended two workshops on the concept, principles, implantation and management of agro-forestry systems. A demonstration model of an agro-forestry system was implanted on one farm in the region where participants could undertake practical activities, especially those related to planning and management. A second round of workshops with the same farmers was later held to reinforce what had been learned and for participants to appreciate the evolution of the original agro-forestry system implanted, as well as to continue their practical experiences with ongoing management.


• Conducting agriculture and livestock production in these new parameters calls for courses, training and information. By means of a Programme entitled Native Planted Forests, WWF-Brasil and its partners held debates, and organised activities for exchanging experiences in the Acre-Purus region (see map) all contributing to the production of the document ‘Agro-forestry Menu’, containing suggestions for a series of different agro-forestry arrangements.

• In 2011, a series of activities were also organised on agro-ecological rural properties in Acre with the intention of promoting the exchange of experiences and disseminating more sustainable practices in the Amazon region. Almost 60 small farmers and technical staff were involved in the work. One of the objectives was for farmers to get to know reforestation ventures using assai palm as the main species. In Acre, the exchanges strengthen the agro-forestry proposal currently being constructed in the region of Manoel Urbano, Feijó and Tarauacá. The teaching-learning process stimulates farmers to change their customary ways of using their land and managing natural resources. All farmers involved have learned that it is perfectly possible to produce well on a family-run property without using fire or making

Agro-forestry arrangements – are models for planting areas with associations of trees, shrubs, crop species and the possible raising of some form of livestock, all simultaneously or at regular time intervals within the same overall areas. Such arrangements reduce environmental damage to arboreal species and soils, as well as diversify rural production.

Is it possible to harmonize agricultural and livestock producing activities with the conservation of the Amazon forest and if so, how? The way to achieve it is through fostering responsible forms of farming and ranching, by stimulating the adoption of good practices. Thus, the dissemination of what are known to be good agricultural practices guarantees the supply of safe food, the maintenance of the quality of the waters, respect for those areas that are required to be preserved on each property and the reduction of carbon emissions, as the practices include the non use of fire.

WWF-Brasil’s Amazon Programme is working alongside governments of the Amazonian states to boost the development of PES policies.

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systems since 2005, especially those for pirarucu, an endangered species listed in the CITES Annex II (which means that more information

is needed for its management). After the creation of local fishermen’s associations to administer the fishing agreements that had been drawn up, the work has been progressing towards an alignment of the project with Acre’s environmental services incentives system

PAYMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES


Payment for Environmental Services – PES is a financial reward offered to those who, instead of cutting down trees, opt for their conservation. Based on conservation paradigms, the forest is far more than the wood it contains to be harvested; it is also a source of oxygen, a protector of soils and water, and a maintainer of biodiversity that is essential to the equilibrium of the ecosystems. In view of all those ‘services’ the forest is tremendously valuable to humanity and its services need to be the object of financial recognition and accounts. That is where the PES comes in.

WWF-Brasil’s Amazon Programme is working alongside governments of the Amazonian states to boost the development of PES policies. Most of such activity is focused on the state of Acre. After two years of work to tailor a legislation to legally institute the payment for environmental services, the main result obtained was the enactment of State law 2.308/2010. The Law creates a system of incentives designed to benefit smallholders that adopt practices to conserve environmental services.

Furthermore, the Amazon Programme supports the Acre government’s initiative of incentives for environmental services that has already achieved the certification of the first one thousand families in the state. The families have received training, technical assistance, materials, support for selling their products, and a bonus for their adherence to the programme. On the certified properties sustainable agricultural practices are employed including the non-use of fire. WWF-Brasil’s ‘Protecting the Forests’ project intends to intensify this work and, together with the Acre government, push the number of certified producers up to three thousand.

Also in the state of Acre, WWF-Brasil has been developing fishery management

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WWF-Brasil’s Amazon Programme is unfolding a series of activities to support territorial management, creation and management of protected areas, implementation of protected areas systems and the ARPA programme.


CREATION AND MANAGEMENT OF PROTECTED AREAS

Among the identified species, five are under threat of extinction and possible new species of fish, primates and birds were also discovered. The most outstanding discovery was of a new monkey species of the Callicebus genus known in Brazil as the zogue-zogue monkey (photo).

In addition to the expeditions, workshops were held to elaborate the management plans and support the creation of protected areas as well as training for the members of the protected area councils, which are the local stakeholders that participate in protected area planning and management. In the last seven years, the Amazon Programme, in partnership and collaboration with the Brazilian Institute for the Environment – IBAMA and the Chico Mendes Institute for the Conservation of Biodiversity – ICMBio have organised and carried out 11 scientific expeditions and given substantial direct support to the elaboration of 10 protected areas’ management plans.

L A N D S C A PE M A N AGE M E N T

WWF-Brasil’s Amazon Programme is unfolding a series of activities in protected areas located in specific regions where it focuses most of its field work (WWF-Brasil conservation landscapes, see map) to guarantee that the areas achieve and comply with their objectives.

One of the programmes’ major contributions towards the full implementation of protected areas has been the organization and promotion of scientific expeditions. These expeditions congregate groups of scientists representing different fields of knowledge to gather information on local biodiversity that can be used to support the elaboration of the protected areas’ management plans - which determine the ways in which the areas will be managed.

WWF-Brasil, in partnership with government and scientific institutions carried out two expeditions in 2011: one to the Serra do Pardo National Park in the state of Para, and another to a group of four protected areas in the northwest region of the state of Mato Grosso namely: the Guariba-Roosevelt Extractive Reserve, the Tucumã State Park and the Rio Roosevelt and Rio Madeirinha Ecological Stations. As a result, over 950 species of plants and animals were registered in the Serra do Pardo National Park and 569 in the four protected areas surveyed in Mato Grosso.

Creating and managing protected areas is a highly important means of ensuring biodiversity conservation and of fostering sustainable development in the Amazon.

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WWF-Brasil directly supported the development of studies that provided the information needed for the creation of the Southern Amazon Mosaic, which embraces 40 protected areas covering an area of seven million hectares, roughly the size of Ireland.


TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT

An important fact that contributed to ensuring the participative nature of the mosaic management was the establishment of its consultative council in which government institutions, social movements and traditional communities are represented. Among the council’s functions is the proposition of directives concerning land use, access, surveillance, management plans, monitoring, scientific research and the use of funds destined for the protected areas.

In October 2011, WWF-Brasil supported the holding of the first meeting of Southern Amazon Mosaic managers to define the internal regulations, discuss the composition of the Mosaic Council and analyse its strategic planning.


When protected areas are integrated and organised into a broader system, biodiversity conservation actions become more efficacious. That fact is recognised by the Brazilian National Protected Areas System, created in 2000 (SNUC, Law nº. 9985), which integrates protected areas in a regional-scale planning and management by, among other instruments, the protected areas mosaics.

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Mosaics are sets of protected areas of various types that are managed in an integrated manner. The Amazon Programme has been supporting the establishment of mosaic initiatives, as in the case of the Southern Amazon Mosaic, which was officially recognised in 2011.

WWF-Brasil directly supported the development of studies that provided the information needed for the creation of the mosaic

which embraces 40 protected areas located in the states of Amazonas, Mato Grosso and Rondonia; covering an area of seven million hectares, roughly the size of Ireland.

In addition to organizing workshops and meetings with local communities, the organisation promoted an event at the 10th Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity, held in Japan in 2010, with aim of publicising the socio-environmental importance of the mosaic area and raising support for the initiative.

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WWF-Brasil published the RAPPAM results obtained for the protected areas in the states of Amazonas, Para and Rondonia, which, when added to other protected areas previously assessed, complete a total of 470 protected areas analysed, a coverage of 80% of all the country’s protected areas (in extension).


IMPLEMENTATION OF PROTECTED AREAS’ SYSTEMS

The information gathered in the assessments is key to guide PA managers and other partners in the decision making process related to PA planning and consolidation, improving the effectiveness of the areas themselves, and also collaborating to ensure that Brazil fulfils the PA evaluation targets under the aegis of the Convention on Biological Diversity.


The Amazon Programme also seeks to put forward proposals for policies, tools and analyses that contribute to improving planning and management of the State-run protected areas in the Amazon and those that are part of the National Protected Areas System (SNUC).

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Some highlights are the capacity building and monitoring strategies devised for the National PAs System. Regarding capacity building, 18 courses on protected areas management were offered to over 400 Amazon PA managers. Another activity undertaken was the Coordination of the Management Plan Teaching and Learning Community, an initiative that stimulates debate and the exchanging of experiences to achieve improvements in the elaboration, implementation and monitoring of management plans.

On PA system monitoring, one of the main tools adopted was the Rapid Assessment and Prioritisation of Protected Area Management - RAPPAM. In 2011, WWF-Brasil published the RAPPAM results obtained for the protected areas in the states of Amazonas, Para and Rondonia, which, when added to other protected areas previously assessed, complete a total of 470 protected areas analysed, a coverage of 80% of all the country’s protected areas (in extension).

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WWF-Brasil is one of the institutions that developed the ARPA concept and has been an active participant since the planning stage and the announcement, in 2002, of the programme which currently encompasses 95 protected areas in 52 million hectares of the Brazilian Amazon.


ARPA PROGRAMME

ARPA-supported areas have higher management effectiveness ratings and the deforestation indexes are lower than in areas not supported by the programme.

In the second half of 2011, efforts were concentrated on establishing sufficient funds to guarantee proper implementation of part of ARPA’s PAs over the next 30 years, when it is expected that Brazilian economy and development will be solid enough to the maintenance of the protected areas without external cooperation and funding. Technical meetings and political engagement were organised in the quest to leverage funding for ARPA.


WWF-Brasil’s support for the Brazilian Government’s Amazon Protected Areas Programme (Áreas Protegidas da Amazônia - ARPA), has been vital in ensuring the conservation of biodiversity in the Brazilian Amazon.

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WWF-Brasil is one of the institutions that developed the ARPA concept and has been an active participant since the planning stage and the announcement, in 2002, of the programme which currently encompasses 95 protected areas in 52 million hectares of the Brazilian Amazon.

ARPA has various innovative features and one of them is long-term financial sustainability for the protected areas that have been created. The year 2010 marked the transition period from the end of ARPA programme Phase I to the beginning of Phase II. Among the results obtained by the

first phase are: the capture of 29.7 million dollars to capitalize the Protected Areas Fund; the creation of 44 new protected areas; and the direct investment of 46 million dollars from donations in protected areas planning and management.

In thirty-nine of ARPA-supported protected areas, more than 8 thousand species have been registered, 107 of which are listed as under threat of extinction.


The Amazon Programme has produced various publications and

vídeos in the last two years. They address different aspects of the

Programme’s work, from managed pirarucu fisheries to the analysis

of the management effectiveness of the protected areas in some

Amazonian states. Get to know some of them:

PUBLICATIONS

ARPA – Making a difference in the conservation of the Amazon. Results of the First Phase of the ARPA Programme.

Lessons learned about the organization for the Elaboration of Management Plans.

Illustrated Handbook and Guide to the Foliar Architecture of Western Amazon Wood Species.

Climate Witnesses. Second video of the series. Presents testimony of fishermen from Manoel Urbano, Acre, addressing climate change and adaptation measures.


Tabuleiro do Embaubal and the Amazon Turtles (Video). Presents the birth of millions of Amazon river turtles and the efforts of researchers, students and riverside dwellers to guarantee the reproduction of the species at the vast Juncal beach in the Xingu River, in the municipality Senador José Porfírio, Para state.

Results of the Application of the RAPPAM Method to Evaluate PA Management Effectiveness in the states of Amazonas, Para and Rondonia.

Pirarucu Management – Sustainability in the lakes of Acre. Presents the system developed in the state of Acre to manage pirarucu (Arapaima gigas) fisheries.

Evaluation of the social impacts of protected areas in Brazil: ways forward and challenges

Sustainable Development in the Northwest of Mato Grosso

These publications available at www.wwf.org.br


TEAMBR A S Í L I A

Antonio Oviedo Fisheries Specialist

Danielle Bastos S. Alencar

Conservation Programme Officer

Léa Maria David Administrative Officer

Ligia Paes de Barros Communication Officer

Luana Carvalho Finantial Assistant

Luiz Antonio Coltro Junior


Marcelo Oliveira da Costa


Mariana Napolitano e Ferreira


Marisete Catapan Protected Areas Specialist

Mauro Armelin Head of the Amazon Programme

Meire Gonçalves dos Reis

Conservation Programme Administrative Assistant

Ricardo Russo Conservation Programme Officer

Ubiratan Godinho Torres Júnior

Trainee


R IO BR A N C O

Alberto Tavares Conservation Specialist

Daniella Santos Conservation Programme Administrative Assistant

Elektra Rocha Conservation Programme Officer

Flávio Quental Rodrigues


Jamili Cris Lemos de Alcantara

Administrative Assistant

Lucas Souza Silva Trainee

Moacyr Araújo Conservation Programme Officer

Orlando de Freitas Conservation Programme Officer

Rosimar Silva General Services Assistant

M A N AU S

Jorge Dantas Communication Officer

Marcelo Gonçalves Cortez


Márcia Almeida da Conceição

Conservation Programme Administrative Assistant

Maria Jasylene Pena de Abreu


Samuel Tararan Pacheco


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Translation

Martin Charles Nicholl

Editing and proofreading

Antonio Oviedo

Mariana Napolitano Ferreira


Final editing and proofreading


Cover photo

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WWF.ORG.BR• WWF-BRASIL IN THE AMAZON • HUMAN WELL-BEING AND NATURE CONSERVATION

11In seven years, were held in the Amazon 11 scientific expeditions which have supported the implementation of 10 management plans of protected areas

40protected areas are part of the Southern Amazon Mosaic, which has received WWF-Brasil’s support in the development of studies for its creation

470is the number of protected areas who had their management effectiveness analyzed by RAPPAM

130%is the value of the increase in FDL-type rubber production in the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve (Acre state)

750Through the program Madeira é Legal, construction companies from São Paulo have consumed 750 truckloads of tropical timber from certified or legal origin

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