ANNUAL REPORT 2020 CONTENTS

46 DONATIONS 72 LEGAL 85 SPECIAL UNIT OBLIGATIONS PROJECTS UNIT UNIT

3 Letter from the CEO 47 COPAÍBAS 62 GEF TERRESTRE 73 FRANCISCANA 86 SUZANO 4 Perspectives Community, Protected Areas Strategies for the CONSERVATION Emergency Call Support 5 FUNBIO 25 years and Indigenous Peoples Project Conservation, Restoration and Conservation in Franciscana 87 PROJETO K 6 Mission, Vision and Values in the Brazilian Amazon and Management of Biodiversity Management Area I Knowledge for Action 7 SDG and Contributions Cerrado Savannah in the Caatinga, Pampa and 76 ENVIRONMENTAL 10 Timeline 50 ARPA Pantanal EDUCATION 16 FUNBIO Amazon Region Protected 64 ATLANTIC FOREST Implementing Environmental GEF AGENCY 16 How We Work Areas Program Biodiversity and Climate Education and Income- 88 17 In Numbers 53 REM MT Change in the Atlantic Forest generation Projects for FUNBIO 20 List of Funding Sources 2020 REDD Early Movers (REM) 65 PROBIO II Improved Environmental 21 Organizational Flow Chart Global Program – Mato Grosso Opportunities Fund of the Quality at Fishing 89 PRO-SPECIES 22 Governance 56 TRADITION AND FUTURE National Public/Private Communities in the State National Strategic Project 23 Transparency IN THE AMAZON Integrated Actions for of Rio de Janeiro for the Conservation of 24 Ethics Committee 57 KAYAPÓ FUND Biodiversity Project 78 MARINE AND FISHERIES Endangered Species 25 Policies and Safeguards 59 A MILLION TREES FOR 67 AMAPÁ FUND RESEARCH 26 National Agencies FUNBIO THE XINGU 68 ABROLHOS LAND Support for Marine and 91 GFC AGENCY 28 Who We Are 60 GOLDEN LION TAMARIN AND SEA FUND Fisheries Research in the State 32 In the Media CONSERVATION 69 GEF MAR of Rio de Janeiro Project FUNBIO 35 Diversity in Conservation Partnership: Forest Restoration Marine and Coastal 81 SUPPORT TO PAs 40 FUNBIO Grants – Conserving for Golden Lion Tamarin Protected Areas Project Conservation and Sustainable 92 READINESS the Future Conservation 70 SEA GARBAGE IN SP Use of Biodiversity in Federal 61 GOLDEN LION TAMARIN Sea Garbage Monitoring and Coastal and Estuarine 93 Credits PROJECT Assessment Plan, São Paulo Protected Areas in the Partnership for the States of Rio de Janeiro Implementation of a Golden and São Paulo Lion Tamarin Ecological Park 82 WINDOWS ONTO THE RESTINGA DE BERTIOGA STATE PARK 83 GREEN AGAIN Nature Conservation Program in Volta Redonda 84 TCSA PORTO SUL INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 3

LETTER FROM Throughout 2020 we saw predictability Technological acceleration also had and continuity largely replaced by agility an impact on project calls, which are and adaptability. Locally and globally, now done entirely through digital the covid-19 pandemic posed a whole channels. Technology ushered in new new set of challenges and showed, practices in other areas too, with the THE CHAIRMAN among other things, the relationship introduction of distance training, between environmental balance, risks digital information modules, and and opportunities. We watched in ’lives’ to clear up any possible surprise as wild animals returned to our doubts proponents may have. urban spaces, listened attentively to the scientists’ warnings about the danger This unusual year was also marked of outbreaks of new viruses hitherto by solidarity: thanks to the Resilience, contained within pristine environments, exceptional support of some of the and we accompanied enthusiastically largest programs under FUNBIO’s the emphasis placed by governments management, PPEs and basic food worldwide on the necessity for clean baskets were distributed among solidarity and energy and ESG investing. Amid so riverine communities in the Amazon much uncertainty and loss, there and to remote fishing and indigenous was a need for reflection. settlements. The ARPA Program alone responses distributed 2,800 food baskets to Faced with the pandemic, FUNBIO over 160 communities. This drive reacted swiftly and serenely: in a helped support people who had lost matter of days, we implemented the their income sources due to covid-19 ’anywhere office’ concept, which restrictions, or who would have had permitted remote access to data to travel into urban environments to previously only available on the buy what they needed. premises. Adopting a home office regime afforded greater safety to In the future, when we look back FUNBIO’s most important asset: its on this year, we will certainly work force. And initial assessments mourn our losses, but we will also indicate that our concerted effort see the resilience, solidarity and translated into maintained levels of rapid-response capacity that makes productivity and engagement. humanity so unique.

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José Berenguer

Chairman of the Deliberative Board, FUNBIO INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 4

PERSPECTIVES In 2021 we celebrated a quarter include the consolidation of state- of a century in activity: 25 years run protected areas, the bioeconomy working to conserve the future. A and support for indigenous peoples future that will require the recovery in the Cerrado. By encouraging the of a planet severely affected by the sustainable use of biodiversity and covid-19 pandemic in 2020, a year strengthening PAs, widely recognized also drubbed by sporadically extreme as one of the most effective climatic conditions worldwide. conservation tools, COPAÍBAS will For FUNBIO, this reconstruction be a significant step toward building will combine the experiences and a long-term protection network knowledge amassed over the last for the most biodiverse savannah two and a half decades with the on the planet. Knowledge and recent lessons learned from the most unusual year that was 2020. COPAÍBAS also strengthens partnerships in states that have The next steps on this journey will resolutely expressed their commitment lessons learned from be guided by a carefully constructed to environmental conservation five-year plan that will fine-tune ideas, projects and actions. Among and steer our work so that we can the examples is the Consortium of an unusual year obtain increasingly agile results with Amazonian Governors, which plans to higher impact on sociobiodiversity consolidate its standing as a regional conservation. New technologies and solutions forum in 2021. These modes of collaborating and working, partnerships also reach across to the partnerships with different segments, Atlantic Forest, in conjunction with and the perfecting of user experiences the state government of Bahia. are among the opportunities that warrant attention. In 2020, priorities had to be reset, paving the way for a much needed In the years to come we will also roll global reorganization. If history speaks out a relief-bringing initiative that will of an explosion of vitality in the wake see some of our vast experience in the of the Spanish Flu, our hope is that, Amazon applied to Brazil’s very own this time too, the post-pandemic savannah, the Cerrado. The COPAÍBAS period gives rise to an essential and program, supported by the Norwegian energetic celebration of life and Embassy in Brazil, will work in both prioritization of the environment of these biomes, on fronts that as a pillar of human wellbeing.

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Rosa Lemos de Sá

Secretary-General of FUNBIO INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 5 FUNBIO 25 YEARS

FUNBIO is an example of transparency, efficiency and innovation for other RedLAC members. In 25 years it has built a legacy and has worked to promote ties within the region, leading to strong partnerships that have become FUNBIO turns 25 displaying a solid, friendships. It has achieved outstanding impact and has successful blend of innovation, “ contributed to more resilient and creative conservation experience and effort devoted to finance. Congratulations, FUNBIO!” conservation. Each day that passes ZDENKA PISKULIC, RedLAC presidente “it builds upon its capacity to connect people, disciplines and interests that generate opportunities and converge upon solutions. An institution geared towards the future, attentive to the present, and that values the past.”

JOSÉ BERENGUER, Chairman of FUNBIO’s Deliberative Board

We know that FUNBIO has the structure to manage large projects and we’re delighted to be able to support the institution on yet another initiative.” “NILS MARTIN GUNNENG, Norwegian ambassador to Brazil INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 6

Mission Vision Values

To provide strategic resources for biodiversity To be the benchmark in enabling strategic FUNBIO is guided by the following values: conservation resources and solutions for the conservation of biodiversity — Transparency

— Ethics

— Effectiveness

— Receptiveness

— Independence Intellectuality

— Innovation INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 7

SDG AND The conservation initiatives FUNBIO supports work toward the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Brazil’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) and the National Action Plan and Strategy for Biodiversity (EPANB, in Portuguese). In this CONTRIBUTIONS report, projects with a bearing on the SDGs, Brazil’s NDCs, or the EPANB are flagged with the respective icons.

Sustainable Nationally The National Development Determined Biodiversity Strategy Goals Contribution and Action Plans (SDGs) (NDC) (NBSAP)

In 2015, the United Nations (UN) announced that That same year, Brazil submitted its Nationally The National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans its member states were adopting 17 Sustainable Determined Contribution (NDC), a country- – NBSAP is intended to promote the conservation Development Goals in order to protect the planet, specific addendum to the Paris Agreement. Taking and sustainable use of biodiversity, with an eradicate poverty and ensure prosperity for all. greenhouse-gas emissions levels from 2005 as a equitable sharing of the benefits of genetic use. The SDGs carry on from where the Millennium marker, Brazil committed to a stepped target of It was created by the Federal Government in Development Goals left off in 2000, giving those who obtaining a 37% cut by 2025, and 43% by 2030. collaboration with state governments, business, fell short of those targets a second chance to hit the academia and civil society. It contributes to the mark. The set of measures will guide Brazil and the country’s biodiversity goals. All FUNBIO projects 192 other signatories in drafting national policies and contribute to the NBSAP. negotiating international cooperation agreements between now and 2030. INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 8 SDG AND CONTRIBUTIONS

A MILLION TREES FOR THE XINGU

ABROLHOS LAND AND SEA FUND

AMAPÁ FUND

ARPA

ATLANTIC FOREST

COPAÍBAS

ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION

FRANCISCANA CONSERVATION

FUNBIO GRANTS PROGRAM – CONSERVING THE FUTURE

GEF MAR

GEF TERRESTRE

GOLDEN LION TAMARIN CONSERVATION

GOLDEN LION TAMARIN PROJECT

GREEN AGAIN

KAYAPÓ FUND

MARINE AND FISHERIES RESEARCH

PROBIO II

PROJECT K

PRO-SPECIES

REM MT

SEA GARBAGE IN SP

SUPPORT TO PAs

SUZANO

TCSA PORTO SUL

TRADITION AND FUTURE IN THE AMAZON

WINDOWS ONTO THE RESTINGA DE BERTIOGA STATE PARK INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 9 FUNBIO 25 YEARS

This is one of those times when we feel that we’re really making a difference and making the world a better place. Post-graduate support through the FUNBIO Grants program – Conserving the Future will be fundamental for these professionals.” “RICARDO B. MACHADO, D.Sc., University of Brasília and former member of FUNBIO’s Deliberative Board The key to building Brazil’s future can be summed up in one word: diversity. FUNBIO’s success in its mission of contributing toward biodiversity conservation is not only due to the“ fact that its strategy incorporates native socio-diversity, but also because it operates in a diverse way, with a suite of projects FUNBIO was created using funds from the GEF’s and initiatives, involving a wide diversity first major project in Brazil. Since then it has served of partners.”

as the main model for other funds and innovative ADRIANA RAMOS, Environmental law and policy advisor for the financial mechanisms in developing countries. Instituto Socioambiental, and a member of FUNBIO’s Deliberative Board “In 2015, we welcomed FUNBIO aboard as a GEF implementing agency, in recognition of the level of maturity and excellence the institution has achieved.”

GUSTAVO FONSECA, GEF director of programs and first vice-president of FUNBIO’s Deliberative Board ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 10 TIMELINE

— First field trip to accompany — An experiment using prototypes — the Golden Lion Tamarin aims to ascertain the real Conservation project, which, in mortality rate of the nation’s Restored area at the Golden Lion Tamarin Association base in Silva Jardim, Rio de 2020, restores 20 thousand native most endangered dolphin Janeiro, where native seedlings were saplings in the species’ known species. In Rio Grande do Sul, planted. Photo: Luiz Thiago de Jesus/AMLD Jan. territory. the estimate is that the number of franciscana corpses that wash ashore accounts for only 11% of actual deaths.

— — Brazil is the country with the fifth- largest contingent of enrolments Residents of São João da Ponta, PA, on the online course Gender and an área supported by the ARPA program. Photo: Victor Moriyama/FUNBIO Environment, launched by the GEF in 2018. FUNBIO, a member of the Feb. GEF Gender Partnership, helped devise the course, which is available in English, Spanish and French.

— — The Associação MarBrasil and GEMARS, supported by the A team from the Rio Grande do Sul Aquatic Franciscana Conservation project, Mammals Study Group – GEMARS, part of the Franciscana Conservation Project, run aerial monitoring sorties to prepares for an aerial monitoring flyover. obtain precise, up-to-date data Photo: Paulo Henrique Ott/GEMARS Mar. on the franciscana population between São Paulo and Santa Catarina. ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 11 TIMELINE

— The Tropical Forest Conservation — Act (TFCA) reaches completion. Fruit of an American debt-for- Grande Sertão Veredas National Park, Minas Gerias/Bahia (ICMBio) Photo: Marizilda nature law that allowed percentages Cruppe/FUNBIO of national concessional debt to Apr. be redirected into environmental funding, the Act sponsored 90 projects in the Atlantic Forest, Cerrado and Caatinga.

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Smallholders at the Chapada do Araripe EPA, shared by the states of Ceará, Pernambuco — GEF Terrestre selects 10 projects and Piauí. Photo: CEPAN to further the restoration of the May Caatinga and Pampa biomes.

— Launch of the 3rd edition of — Start of the TCSA Porto Sul — the FUNBIO Grants Program— Project, created under a Socio- Conserving the Future, in environmental Consent Decree. Sloth-collared (Bradypus torquatus) is a research topic of FUNBIO Grants. partnership with Instituto Humanize. FUNBIO will work towards Photo: Camila Souto/Personal archive the integrated and strategic Jun. environmental management of the area affected by the Porto Sul Port and Services Complex in the South of Bahia. ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 12 TIMELINE

— The REM Mato Grosso Project — With ExxonMobil and the — delivers 71 vehicles to the Associação Mico-Leão- State Government and Public Dourado (AMLD) renewing their Harvest truck in the Chapada dos Guimarães, Prosecutors Office in a bid to commitments, work begins on the Mato Grosso, part of the REM MT program. Photo: Mariana Galvão/FUNBIO strengthen family-run agriculture, Partnership for the Creation of the sustainable production and Golden Lion Tamarin Ecological Park. Jul. environmental surveillance. The initiative will see the construction of a belvedere to enable park visitors and researchers to observe and monitor the species in the wild.

— — The ARPA Program raises — The Environmental Education approximately R$ 1 million in Project, part of the Frade Consent Distribution of staple food baskets at the São João da Ponta Extractive Reserve/ emergency funding to combat Degree/Conduct Adjustment Degree, ICMBIO, a Protected Area supported by the impact of covid-19 at scrambles over R$ 1 million in the ARPA program in Pará. Photo: Kayana Kaiamurá supported Protected Areas. emergency aid to help mitigate the effects of covid-19 within craft fishing communities. Aug.

— GEF Mar puts up funds to buy — Pro-Espécies, FUNBIO’s first project — REM Mato Grosso musters funds food and PPEs and to hire as a GEF Implementing Agency, and over a thousand necessity seamstresses to make masks at adopts practices to ensure the hampers to support indigenous Protected Areas affected by the broader participation of women. communities and reduce the impacts suspension of tourism and near-total One of these is the hiring of child- of the pandemic. reduction in fish sales. minders to look after kids during workshops. ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 13 TIMELINE

— REM Mato Grosso supports — fire-fighting measures in the Pantanal wetlands, covering Fire-fighters and Ciopaer practice forest-fire combat drills. Photo: Lucas Ninno/GCOM accommodation costs for volunteers and buying medicines, Sep. equipment and veterinary materials to treat animals injured by the wildfires spreading through the biome.

— — The Marine and Fisheries — Launch of the podcast “Toninhas: Research project issues a call a extinção do golfinho invisível” Corn plantation in Juara, Mato Grosso. Photo: REM MT for proposals focused on the (Franciscana: the extinction of conservation and sustainable- the invisible dolphin), the first use of mangroves in Rio de Janeiro work of environmental fiction in state. In all, R$ 4.8 million will be the country. shared among the chosen initiatives. Oct. — GEF Terrestre makes headway in — With R$ 40 million in funding, REM — Announcement of the COPAÍBAS digital communication and hosts its Mato Grosso selects 29 initiatives Project, supported by Norway, first online forums and seminars in through two open calls: “family which will promote biodiversity order to ensure ongoing experience- agriculture” and “production, conservation by stimulating sharing and presentation of results. innovation and sustainable the bioeconomy, reducing markets”. deforestation and generating positive social impacts through actions in protected areas and traditional communities in the Amazon and Cerrado. ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 14 TIMELINE

— With Franciscana Conservation — Two new KF projects get underway, project support, the Maqua Lab uses one to strengthen the indigenous — photos, film and audio recordings crafts production chain, and to detect franciscana in Paraty, RJ. another to buttress agroforestry Tree nursery at the Chapada do Araripe systems in Kayapó territory. EPA, in the states of Ceará, Pernambuco and Piauí. Photo: CEPAN — The Northeastern Center for — A World Bank-commissioned Nov. Environmental Research (CEPAN), consultancy selects an ARPA- supported by GEF Terrestre, begins backed project as a gender case its Caatinga restoration drive in the study for the Amazon Sustainable Araripe-Apodi NF in Ceará. Landscapes Program (which supports the Transition Fund).

— Launch of the project Tradition — and Future in the Amazon. With backing from the Petrobras Menkragnoti Indigenous Territory, Socio-environmental Program, straddling the states of Mato Grosso and Pará. Photo: FUNBIO the initiative aims to foster biodiversity conservation in Kayapó Homelands by improving territorial management with a focus on preserving and valuing traditional knowledge. Dec.

— According to Spotify, “Toninhas: a — The FUNBIO Grants Program – extinção do golfinho invisível” Conserving the Future selects (Franciscana: the extinction of 37 researchers from over 450 the invisible dolphin) is among submissions, a number exceeding the 50 most widely heard fiction the average for the two previous podcasts in Brazil. years. Women account for 67% of those approved. INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 15 FUNBIO 25 YEARS

Twenty-five years ago, FUNBIO was created with the daring vision of using financial and economic tools for sustainability in nature conservation. Today, thanks to its past and current extraordinary leaders with their effective teams, FUNBIO holds a significant “space in the world: it is an essential institution that has become an example of creativity and rigor to accomplish the difficult task of securing sustainable resources for the most precious natural areas of Brazil. The Moore Foundation and myself offer our deepest congratulations on your achievements.”

AVECITA CHICCHÓN, Program director, Andes-Amazon, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

We’re celebrating FUNBIO’s 25th anniversary highlighting its importance to Brazilian biodiversity. Partnering on such projects as ‘The FUNBIO Grants program – Conserving the Future’ reinforces our belief in the power of capacitating people who defend and“ spread transformative ideas. It also represents support for research in Brazil and the reinforcement of actions engaged with socioenvironmental themes in general—elements that help pave a more promising way forward in terms of conservation practices.”

GEORGIA PESSOA, Executive director of Instituto Humanize INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 16

FUNBIO The Brazilian Biodiversity Fund for 291 projects benefitting 248 FUNBIO has contracted an (FUNBIO) is a private, non-profit institutions nationwide. independent external audit national institution that works every year since its foundation, in partnership with government, Among FUNBIO’s main activities and its statements of account business and civil society to are the financial management have all been passed with mobilize and effectively deploy of projects, design of financial unqualified opinion. Since strategic and financial resources mechanisms, and studies on 2013, this effort has been for biodiversity conservation. new sources of conservation reinforced with an internal audit funding, as well as the as well. All of FUNBIO’s external Since operations began in 1996, procurement of goods and audit reports are available for FUNBIO has provided support services for its project portfolio. consultation online at:

LINK

ACCESS THE WEBSITE HOW WE WORK

FUNBIO is structured into Donations Legal Obligations Special Projects three areas: Unit Unit Unit

Projects financed through private Projects financed through private- Diagnoses financial environments donations and bi-and multi-lateral sector legal obligations: environmental and designs mechanisms and tools agreements brokered with the compensation, Consent Decrees/Terms that unblock access to new financial Brazilian government. of Conduct Adjustment, and other sources. mechanisms. INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 17 IN NUMBERS

SUPPORTED PROTECTED ÁREAS 358 47 CALLS FOR PROJECT

SUPPORTED INSTITUTIONS 278 20 INDIGENOUS TERRITORIES SUPPORTED

SUPPORTED PROJECTS 340 92 FINANCERS INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 18 IN NUMBERS

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 13 31 48 59 55 58 81 97 109 93 113 125 209 326 370 464 549 733 787 830 986 1271

TOTAL EXECUTED — IN R$ MILLLION TOTAL ASSETS MANAGED — IN R$ MILLION

1996-2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 27 30 12 24 3 2 4 33 13 107 68 78 17 79 55 51 107 50 0,6 55

SUM CONTRACTED PER YEAR* — IN USD MILLION * Project sums converted into US dollars (exchange rate as of the last day of the month of the contract’s signing) INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 19 FUNBIO 25 YEARS

FUNBIO is the go-to institution for biodiversity conservation in Brazil. Innovating, and creating partnerships, it has set the standard for transparency and efficiency in the management of FUNBIO has been one of our closest partners in Financial “ strategic resources.” Cooperation with Brazil. We have been cooperating in some of our most prominent programs such as the ARPA ADRIANA MOREIRA, Senior Biodiversity Specialist, GEF – Amazon Region Protected Areas program and REDD for “Early Movers in Mato Grosso. As a professional financial agent with huge technical knowledge and expertise in handling international donor programs, we truly appreciate FUNBIO’s contribution to highly successful program implementation as well as real impact on the ground. We thank you for the first 20 years of partnership In addition to creating proposals for the conservation of and look forward to working together for the next 20 this dolphin species, the Franciscana Conservation project years! Parabéns!” has helped open channels of dialogue between fisheries

JENS MACKENSEN, KfW head conservation finance and sustainable resource mgmt and science, fostering spaces at the front lines for young Latin America “researchers—women, mothers—who work together in the fight for a sustainable ocean that provides a healthy environment for all creatures. FUNBIO’s support has been essential in strengthening new generations of scientists, not just technically, but in terms of more inclusive environmental governance processes.”

CAMILA DOMIT, Coordinator of the Franciscana Conservation project in Management Area II, supported by the Franciscana Conservation project INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 20 LIST OF FUNDING SOURCES 2020

— Anglo American Minério de Ferro Brasil S.A. — Fonds Français pour l’Environnement Mondial — Natura Cosméticos S.A. — Bahia Mineração S.A. (FFEM) — Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs — Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento – BID — Global Conservation Fund — O Boticário Franchising Ltda. — Banco Nacional de Desenvolvimento Econômico — Global Environment Facility – GEF — Petróleo Brasileiro S.A. – Petrobras e Social – BNDES — Global Wildlife Conservation — Petro Rio Jaguar Petróleo Ltda. — BP Brasil Ltda. — Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation — Rock World S.A. — Bundesministerium für Umwelt – BMU — Green Climate Fund – GCF — Secretaria de Negócios, Energia e Estratégia — Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional – CSN — Instituto Humanize Industrial do Reino Unido – BEIS — Conservação Internacional – CI-Brasil — KfW Bankengruppe — Suzano Papel e Celulose — Conservation International Foundation — L. Figueiredo Empreendimentos Imobiliários — US Agency for International Development – USAID — Eurofins Foundation — Linden Trust for Conservation — World Bank – Banco Mundial — ExxonMobil Química Ltda. — Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies — WWF-Brasil — ExxonMobil Exploração Brasil Ltda. — Mava Fondation Pour La Nature — WWF-US INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 21 ORGANIZATIONAL FLOW CHART

DELIBERATIVE BOARD*

Appointments Finances Management Asset Other & Governance & Auditing Committee Management Technical Committee Committee Committee Committees

EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT

GEF and GCF Communication Legal Dept. PMO – Project Internal Audit* Superintendency Superintendency Superintendency Agencies & MKT Dept. Management of Programs of Planning & of Acquisitions Office Management & Logistics

Donations Admin. Purchases Unit Documentation Contracts Legal Center Obligations Unit Accountancy

Special Project Projects Controllership Unit HR

IT

Treasury * Responds functionally to the Deliberative Board Department composition INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 22

GOVERNANCE The Deliberative Board (DB) sits 16 members from the academic, environmental, business and governmental sectors. It is FUNBIO’s chief governing body.

CHAIRMAN ACADEMIC SECTOR ENVIRONMENTAL SECTOR BUSINESS SECTOR GOVERNMENTAL SECTOR José de Menezes Berenguer Neto Danielle de Andrade Moreira Adriana Ramos Flavio Ribeiro de Castro Eduardo Lunardelli Novaes VICE-CHAIRWOMAN Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) FSB Comunicação Ministério do Meio Ambiente

Danielle de Andrade Moreira Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) [a partir de novembro/2020] Maria de Lourdes Silva Nunes José de Menezes Berenguer Neto Fabio Scarano Fundação Grupo Boticário JPMorgan Fernando Cesar Lorencini Fundação Brasileira para o Instituto Chico Mendes de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (FBDS) Maria José Gontijo Marianne von Lachmann Conservação da Biodiversidade

Instituto Internacional de Educação Lachmann Investimentos Ltda. (ICMBio) [since September 2020] Ricardo Machado do Brasil (IIEB) Universidade de Brasília (UnB) Walter Schalka Homero de Giorge Cerqueira Valmir Ortega Suzano Papel e Celulose Instituto Chico Mendes de Sergio Besserman Vianna Conexsus Conservação da Biodiversidade

Instituto de Pesquisas Jardim Botânico (ICMBio) [until September 2020] do Rio de Janeiro Luis Gustavo Biagioni Ministério do Meio Ambiente

[until November 2020]

Marcelo Moisés de Paula Ministério da Economia INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 23 TRANSPARENCY

Our demonstration of accountability dated December 31, 2019, along with the independent auditor’s report and explanatory notes are available for consultation at: External Audit

FUNBIO has contracted an independent external audit LINK every year since its foundation. Its statements of account, all passed with unqualified opinion, the independent ACCESS AUDIT REPORTS auditor’s reports and explanatory notes are all available for consultation on the FUNBIO website.

Internal Audit

Since 2013, FUNBIO has also conducted an internal audit to buttress aspects of control and the integrity of its accounting and financial data. The internal audit is an instrument that probes every level of the organization, ensures an adequate working relationship between the different areas, and supports and promotes ongoing process improvements. It is a reference for the implantation and engagement of best practices in organizational governance. The statements of account, independent auditor’s reports and explanatory notes are all available for consultation on the FUNBIO website. INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 24 ETHICS COMMITTEE

Created in 2013, the FUNBIO Ethics Committee is In 2020, the FUNBIO Ethics Committee met regularly to conduct the following activities: formed by four members of staff encumbered with developing the Code of Ethics, a document that sets forth the organization’s norms of ethical conduct. | | | The Code is approved by the Deliberative Board. Annual ethics training, held in Throughout the year, the Ethics In April, Alexandra Leitão, from December 2020, with the participation Committee addressed five cases, four Internal Auditing, joined the Ethics The committee members, who serve two-year, once- of all of FUNBIO’s new hires. In of which were complaints and one, Committee after the end of the renewable mandates, are also responsible for annually addition to revising the Code of Ethics, a doubt. The EC channels remained mandate held by Fábio Leite. the committee sessions also discussed open year-round, and the average time training FUNBIO employees in the Code. Issues can be the concepts of ethics and the internal taken to process the cases brought to raised and complaints made through the appropriate practices followed at FUNBIO. the EC’s attention was roughly three months. The reports on cases are channels on the institution’s website. made available on the FUNBIO website every April LINK

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MEMBERS OF THE ETHICS COMMITTEE IN 2020

Flavia Neviani Coordinator Alexandra Viana Leitão Heloísa Helena Henriques João Ferraz INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 25 POLICIES AND SAFEGUARDS

In 2018, FUNBIO adopted the safeguards applied by the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group. Gender Integration Policy

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PERFORMANCE PS1 STANDARDS (PS): Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts

PS2 Labor and Working Conditions

PS3 Resource Efficiency and Pollution Prevention

PS4 Community Health, Safety, and Security

PS5 Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement

PS6 Biodiversity Conservation and Sustainable Management of Living Natural Resources

PS7 Indigenous People

PS8 Cultural Heritage INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 26

NATIONAL AGENCIESDecision B.BM-2014/04

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GREEN GREEN CLIMATE CLIMATE FUND FUND

Full-color version 1-color version LINK FUNBIO is the only civil society Organization forin digital the media and Thefor most Green basic use and Climate Fund (GCF) was set up high-end print black& white duplication Southern Hemisphere to hold both GEF agency and in 2010 to support projects tackling climate ACCESS GCF AGENCY GCF entity accreditation. change. Since then, it has supported over a hundred projects totaling USD 2 billion in funding. In 2018, FUNBIO, BNDES and the federal bank Caixa Econômica Federal became Brazil’s COLOR AND BLACK & WHITE VERSION first GCF accredited entities.

The Global Environment Facility was established received national GEF agency accreditation. Its at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 to maiden voyage as a GEF Agency came in 2018, help tackle some of the most pressing problems when work began on the National Strategic facing the environment. Since then, the GEF has Project for the Conservation of Endangered channeled USD 21.1 billion into over 5 thousand Species (Pro-Species). conservation projects across 170 countries. Today, there are 18 GEF Agencies worldwide, working LINK together to increase and diversify this portfolio. ACCESS GEF AGENCY In 2015, after careful assessment, FUNBIO INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 27 FUNBIO 25 YEARS

FUNBIO is a strategic partner of the golden lion tamarin conservation program. It is a privilege to work with an institution that understands the complexity of the environmental issues, has a well “prepared technical team and institutional goals that run in the same direction as our own. This really helps in planning to obtain results and in maximizing the use of resources.” With support from its partners, Tabôa Fortalecimento Comunitário has increased the credit allotted for LUIS PAULO FERRAZ, Executive secretary, Golden Lion Tamarin Association investment in boosting the productivity and quality of cocoa planted using the cabruca system, where the cocoa “plants grow in the shade of existing woodland and to other agroforestry systems in Bahia. To further expand the resources available for loans, we are studying blended finance models to enlarge the credit pool for agriculture with socioenvironmental returns.”

ROBERTO VILELA, Executive director of Tabôa, a partner on the Probio II Opportunities Fund managed by FUNBIO INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 28 WHO WE ARE*

70 42

LEADERS

70,37% 29,63%

62,50% 37,50%

* The list includes staff and interns who were part of the FUNBIO team in 2020. INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 29 WHO WE ARE

SECRETARY-GENERAL’S OFFICE INTERNAL AUDIT Clarissa Scofield Pimenta Laura Pires de Souza Petroni

Rosa Maria Lemos de Sá CEO Alexandra Viana Leitão Daniela Torres Ferreira Leite Mayne Assunção Moreira

Zeni Pinheiro Assistent Dante Coppi Novaes Natalia Prado Lopes Paz Travassos PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE Edegar Bernardes Silva GEF & GCF AGENCIES (PMO) Fabio Ribeiro Silva SPECIAL PROJECTS UNIT

Fábio Heuseler Ferreira Leite Manager Mônica Aparecida Mesquita Ferreira Fernanda Abduche Correa de Paiva Andreia de Mello Martins

Manager Estrella COMMUNICATION & MARKETING Heliz Menezes da Costa Helio Yutaka Hara Manager TEAM: João Ferraz Fernandes de Mello SUPERINTENDENCY OF Thiago da Fonseca Martins Mariana Fernandes Gomes Galvão PLANNING & MANAGEMENT

TEAM: Mariana Melo Gogola Aylton Coelho Costa Neto Superintendent Carlos Atila de Alencar Ximenes Mary Elizabeth Lazzarini Teixeira Samira Chain Nascimento SUPERINTENDENCY OF PROGRAMS Paula Cavalcanti Ceotto ADMINISTRATION

Talissa Silverio Araujo Manoel Serrão Borges de Sampaio Paula Vergne Fernandes Flávia Mól Machado Coordinator

Thiago Ferreira Câmara Superintendent Pedro Alberto Dantas da Silva Rodolfo Cabral Costa Gomes Marçal TEAM: LEGAL DEPARTAMENT DONATIONS UNIT Thales Fernandes do Carmo Cláudio Augusto Silvino

Flavia de Souza Neviani Manager Fernanda Figueiredo Constant Marques Evellyn de Freitas Lisboa

Manager LEGAL OBLIGATIONS UNIT Marcio de Vasconcelos Maciel

TEAM: Ilana Parga Nina Boetger de Oliveira Erika Polverari Farias (in memoriam) Manager Matheus Duarte Ramos

Alice Regnier Gomide Manager Manuela Mosse Muanis Manager Vanessa Ravaglia Cohen Paulo Miranda Gomes Fernanda Luiza Silva de Medeiros Rafaela Luiza Pontalti Giongo TEAM: TEAM: Alexandre Ferrazoli Camargo Ana Helena Varella Bevilacqua Andre Luiz Ferreira Lemos Andre Aroeira Pacheco INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 30 WHO WE ARE

DOCUMENTATION CENTER TEAM: TREASURY Suzana Amora Ramos Coordinator of Contract

TEAM: Ana Paula França Lopes Roberta Alves Martins Coordinator Management, Acquisitions and Consultancy Ana Maria Rodrigues Martins Camila da Costa Golfetto Jefferson Luis Mattos Jesus Dalissa Granja Villa Nova TEAM: TEAM: Natália Corrêa Santos Felipe Augusto de Araujo Camello Odara Diniz da Conceição Alessandro Jonady Oliveira Felipe Dias Mendes Serra Roberta Alves Martins Allan da Silva Cabral ACCOUNTING Juliana Siqueira da Silva Schuler Thais de Oliveira Medeiros Ana Lucia Oliveira dos Santos Daniele Soares dos Santos Seixas Luciana Bernardes Natal Cleyton Oliveira Lima de Souza

Coordinator Natalia de Barros Silva Mattos INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Denise Tavares Fernandes da Silva

Priscila Ribeiro Larangeira Freitas Vinicius de Souza Barbosa Coordinator Flavia Avelar Teixeira TEAM: Renato Reis Esteves Flavio do Sacramento Miguel Elizangela da Conceição Santos Ronny Paulo Guimarães Pessanha TEAM: Jeanne Caroline Silva Alves Flavia Fontes de Souza Vanessa Guimarães Ribeiro de Barros Alessandro de Assis Denes José Mauro de Oliveira Lima Filho Guilherme Brito da Silva Victor Hugo Gatto Caroline Cavalcanti de Oliveira Jacobina Luisa Brandt Pinheiro da Silva Julia Lopes Clacino Vitor da Silva Vieira Deywid Carvalho Dutra Luiza de Andrade Lima Mylena Costa Barbosa Milesi Igor de Veras Coutinho Soares Marcos Pereira da Rocha Nara Anne Brito do Nascimento HUMAN RESOURCES Thais Mariano da Silveira de Brito

Suellen Pereira de Freitas Andrea Pereira Goeb Manager Vinicius Chavão da Cunha de Souza Thais dos Santos Lima SUPERINTENDENCY OF Viviane dos Santos da Silva TEAM: ACQUISITIONS & LOGISTICS Viviane Ferreira da Costa PROJECT CONTROLLERSHIP Barbara Santana da Silva Chagas Marcelo Moreira dos Santos Willian dos Santos Edgard

Marilene Viero Coordinator Bruna Gabriella de Oliveira Araujo Superintendent Mayara do Valle Bernardes de Lima Heloisa Helena Henriques

Coordinator Fernanda Alves Jacintho Rodrigues da

Silva Coordinator of Acquisitions and Logistics INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 31 INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 32 IN THE MEDIA

24.01.2020 | G1 09.02.2020 | Jornal da Paraíba 03.03.2020 | Veja SP Mato Grosso receives R$ 36.8 million from Doctoral research at the Federal University of Spix’s macaws arrive in Brazil this Tuesday German bank through environmental Paraíba tries to age wine using local Caatinga preservation agreement wood

03.03.2020 | UOL 20.04.2020 | O Povo 28.04.2020 | Brasil de Fato At risk of extinction, dozens of Spix’s macaws Pedra da Risca do Meio State Park receives In Pernambuco, 51% of native Caatinga to arrive in Brazil today underwater monitoring vegetation has already been deforested

29.05.2020 | Vivo Verde 25.06.2020 | G1 06.06.2020 | Meio Ambiente por Inteiro (TV Justiça) FUNBIO Grants 2020 channels R$ 1 million into Bahia State Government signs Porto-Sul World Environment Day research on biodiversity conservation socio-environmental resource management agreement INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 33 IN THE MEDIA

29.06.2020 | Folha do Litoral 16.07.2020 | Só Notícias 01.08.2020 | Projeto Colabora Suzano launches an emergency call for Empaer receives 58 vehicles to attend farmers An overpass for the golden lion tamarin community support projects across 33 municipalities state-wide

02.08.2020 | G1 23.08.2020 | Portal Amazônia 30.09.2020 | Gaúcha ZH Golden lion tamarin is the beneficiary of Forests of Mato Grosso to be monitored by Meet the most endangered cetacean in the Brazil’s first wildlife crossing, a bridge to the high-resolution satellite until 2021 Southwestern Atlantic, a visitor to the Gaúcho species’ future coastline

07.10.2020 | O Eco 19.10.2020 | O Globo 29.10.2020 | O Eco Conserving the Pampa birdlife: an alliance Actress Camila Márdila to star in environmental Coordinated knowledge in pursuit of between conservationists and rural producers fiction podcast in defense of dolphin solutions—franciscana conservation INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 34 IN THE MEDIA

31.10.2020 | G1 01.11.2020 | O Eco 17.11.2020 | Plataforma NGO launches fiction podcast in defense of the Podcast introduces the franciscana, Brazil’s Specimens of the Spix’s macaw, extinct in franciscana, Brazil’s most endangered dolphin most endangered dolphin species the wild, to be released into natural habitat species in 2021

30.11.2020 | O Fluminense 06.12.2020 | O Eco 05.12.2020 | O Estado de São Paulo SG: Environment Department launches the Sighting of endangered dolphin species Endangered dolphin species is sighted in Paraty Municipal Atlantic Forest Plan reinforces the importance of the Tamoios Ecological Station

09.12.2020 | O Documento A helicopter helps distribute food in the remoter regions of the Pantanal. INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 35 DIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION I guess I’m lucky, because I’ve never run into obstacles for being a black woman.”

ANDRÉIA MARTINS, Golden Lion Tamarin Association

The visibility of bisexual people in academia can “ generate familiarity so that indecisive bisexual youths (indecisive in terms of their career, not their sexuality) can see themselves taking a doctorate or going into science.” In this annual report, two of the researchers supported by IGOR DANIEL, FUNBIO Grants – Conserving the Future the program FUNBIO Grants – Conserving the Future give “ first-person accounts of their experiences with diversity in their work and careers. In addition, there are also write-ups on the women leading a fisheries project in Rio de Janeiro and the leader of a group that is fundamental to producing knowledge on the golden lion tamarin. I’ve been called a ‘monkey’, in an attempt to equate me with my subject of study. I sometimes ask myself if the Since the 2016 Annual Report, each edition has contained same thing would happen if I were white.” a section on gender issues, a theme of enormous relevance MARIANNE BELLO, FUNBIO Grants – Conserving the Future to FUNBIO, both internally and externally: we have gender- integration policies, organize internal gender-awareness “ training, and take part in the GEF Gender Partnership, a working group formed by implementing agencies from Fishing is seen as a man’s thing. When we started going out in a all over the world. fishing boat with an all-female crew, the fishermen couldn’t accept it. We suffered a lot of harassment: they’d curse at us, make rude gestures, tell us to go wash clothes or watch the soaps on TV.”

MARGARETH JULIÃO, Native Women – Cooperative of Craft “Fisherwomen and Growers of Native Plants in the Lake District INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 36

— DIVERSITY AND Andréia Martins monitoring golden lion tamarins (Leontopithecus rosalia) in the field. Photo: Sally CONSERVATION Foster

The Seventh Sense

The biologist Andréia Martins starts the day at 5:30am. As soon as she gets up, she tends to her plants with her adopted stray Nino in tow, has breakfast and throws herself into the unique world of the golden lion tamarin. She keeps diaries, plans routes, selects the troupes that need to be visited, and then, at 7:30am, along comes the car that will take her out into the field. Something of a conservation success story, Andréia has devoted the last 38 years of her life to this marmoset, endemic to the Silva Jardim region of Rio de Janeiro state. She heads up a team of five. All male.

“I guess I’m lucky, because I’ve never teaching, and in 1989 she was hired as animals: “Nobody else has comparable good, so we kept our distance. Ritinha run into obstacles for being a black field coordinator on the Golden Lion knowledge and field experience with Almost four decades later, she jokes felt rejected by this and started at- woman. There’s a lot of trust on our Tamarin Association’s Metapopulation the golden lion tamarin in the wild. Not that she wakes up exhausted from tacking us instead. And every time she team, as we’ve known each other Program, which she has known from one of the illustrious scientists”, says working so hard in her sleep: her launched one of these attacks, there since we were kids and we’re close the get-go, and works on to this day. Luís Paulo Ferraz, executive secretary of dreams are full of these golden pri- was Micoeca, planting himself between friends. I always say that I prefer to She had various chances to make the the Golden Lion Tamarin Association. mates. More than once she’s dreamed me and Ritinha, like a shield.” ask, but if they don’t do what I say, move into academia, and she’s provided that a certain troupe had produced then I have no problem telling. And if support to researchers from all over the Andréia was born in Silva Jardim, offspring only to find out in the field The brave Micoeca ended his days in a they mess up, I joke that I’m gonna tell world, but her passion kept her at Silva where she grew up “playing in the for- the next day that the dream was true: shelter after a violent fight with a large their wives”, says Andréia, who started Jardim, where she has even learned to est beside the house”. But there were “I call it my seventh sense, because I’ve capuchin that left him maimed. out planning to be a teacher and end- reproduce the primate’s vocalizations: no golden lion tamarins there, and her already used up all the sixth!”, laughs ed up going into biology instead. “It’s a long call, which they use to check first contact with the species came in Andréia, who recalls her personal fa- I ask her if, after all this time, she’s if there are other groups in the area”, the classroom: we had never heard of vorite: Micoeca, a male rescued from not sick of tamarins, and after a brief “From the very first time I went into she says. “They usually respond, and this endangered neighbor, and to get traffickers and released into the wild at silence, she responds with a smile and a the forest to see the marmosets I felt at sometimes even come toward me”. pictures of it, you had to use a ‘trick’: Silva Jardim. Micoeca adopted Andréia boom: “Like hell, I can barely even stay home, and I said to myself: this is what I take a photo of a photo and use that into his troupe: “There was a female away during vacation. I keep imagining want!”. That first time was as a teen- She has spent so much time among to illustrate your paper. This was back from another troupe, called Ritinha. She a day when their population is viable, ager, in the 1980s. The forest was key the golden lion tamarins that she has when the species was on the very was used to people and would jump and all the future generations we’ll get to her decision to opt for biology over developed a unique familiarity with the brink of extinction. down onto our shoulders. That wasn’t a chance to know. I’m optimistic”. INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 37 DIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

B for Biscuit

IGOR DANIEL BUENO ROCHA

My name is Igor Daniel, I’m a student on the Post-graduate Program in Ecology at the University of Brasília and my relationship with the institution goes back nine years, including degree, master’s degree and the doctorate I’m doing now. It was during my second year as an undergrad that I realized I was bisexual. Many people brand bisexuality as an excuse for not assuming one’s homosexuality, or see it merely as a passing phase of curiosity and discovery, and I admit I often wondered this about myself, until I finally understood that it’s okay to like both men and women.

My sexuality was never an issue bisexual on the political scene, academia can generate familiarity in terms of how people saw me making my voice heard on all so that indecisive bisexual youths in the academic milieu, though the fronts I have some authority (indecisive in terms of their the fact that I’m a man may have to speak on: the environment, career, not their sexuality) can see had a lot to do with that. I see education, respect for science and themselves taking a doctorate or far greater inequalities between the LGBTQIA+ struggle. going into science. the genders than between sexual orientations in the scientific world. We need greater visibility for the My personality was always the B part of LGBTQIA+, including in most determining factor in how academia. After all, B is not just for I was treated in academia. My “biscuit”, “Beyoncé” or “Bats”, my handling of bureaucracy and the subject of study. It’s not because | trust I received from others enabled I’m bi that I’m not going to accept Igor Daniel, me to become president of the myself, or need to hear that it’s supported by the third edition of Biology course and, later on, post- just a phase, or that I’m still sitting the FUNBIO Grants graduate students’ representative on the fence. I’m bi because this Program. Photo: on the Collegiate Program and dichotomy in sexuality is not a Personal archive Institute Board. I’m also vocal as relevant factor for my preference. an ecologist, lecturer, scientist and The visibility of bisexual people in INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 38

— DIVERSITY AND Marienne Bello, biologist and researcher supported by the second edition of the FUNBIO Grants CONSERVATION Program. Photo: Personal archive

We can and want to be protagonists

MARIANNE BELLO

Fieldwork is definitely a challenge, but there are obstacles that track back to gender and race. To paraphrase Conceição Evaristo, my research is contaminated by the fact that I am a black woman. I’ve been called a ‘monkey’, in an attempt to equate me with my subject of study. I sometimes ask myself if the same thing would happen if I were white.

My capacity has been called into When it comes to studies assessing youths aged between 18 and 24 Being a FUNBIO grant holder gave Marianne Bello is a biologist studying for question from the very beginning, knowledge about primates, women made it into university that same me the resources I needed to a master’s degree in Ecology and Evolution at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. and I’m generally posed two are not seen as a target public. year. As a post-graduate student, pursue my research, but I also see The FUNBIO Grants Program supports her questions. One: ‘aren‘t you afraid?’ In my experience, there was a none of my teachers were black it as an investment in my personal field study “The Silence of the Innocents”, about howler monkeys on Ilha Grande. Women often ask me about the clear difference in the way I was women, and I was often the only and professional development. It is contact I have with men during my received by the interviewees. While black student in the classroom or essential that we promote diversity work and that makes me think that the women spoke about subjects at academic events. in science and telling my story is a the violence we are subjected to beyond the study itself, telling stories chance to show that, more than just generates insecurity and fear. From about their interactions with howler The need to inspire black students to subjects in a study, we can and want the outset, I was told to find a male monkeys, and how they always seem go into post-graduate research was to be protagonists. assistant so that I’d be “safer” and I to know when the rains are coming, the motivation behind Odú, created realized that when I’m with him, he’s the men tended to give much more by myself, Dr. Piatã Marques and Dr. the one people immediately figure succinct answers. Arildo Dias (odu.initiative@gmail. must be in charge. Two: ‘do you com). The Yoruba word Odú means think you can manage that?’ It’s a However, the challenges aren’t destiny/path. According to Ifism, question usually put by men eager to limited to fieldwork. According to a there are 256 odús each individual tell me how to do my job, as if I didn’t National Census conducted in 2015, can follow, and our initiative wants already know what it entailed. 54% of the Brazilian population is to shine a light on one in particular: black, yet only 12.8% of young black the path of research. INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 39

— DIVERSITY AND Fisherwoman from the Native Women group in Arraial do Cabo, Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Zenilda Maria da CONSERVATION Silva/Mulheres Nativas

A change of tide*

Also in Ilha Grande, more specifically in the Lake District, covid-19 has had undeniable impact on the fishing communities living near the Arraial do Cabo Marine Extractive Reserve. For the women there, the challenges are immense and predate the pandemic.

“Fishing is seen as a man’s thing. respect. ‘Here comes the girls’ boat’, Not that they had the money to do we needed. Not only did it restructure Administrative consultancy will also When we started going out in a they say”. it, because they didn’t. But they our base, but also helped us get our ensure, and encourage, further fishing boat with an all-female crew, believed in their dream from day-one. products back on the street again”. professionalization at the Native the fishermen couldn’t accept it. We Now, wherever they go, they move Since the co-op got up-and-running, Women co-op, with an internal charter suffered a lot of harassment: they’d and hang together like a shoal. they’ve found themselves hanging by With the project’s help, the co-op’s base and the development of a business curse at us, make rude gestures, tell us “When we hear about a course a thread more than once, but they is being refitted so that the members plan with short, medium and long- to go wash clothes or watch the soaps or something, we all go together. always scraped a way to pay the rent can continue their work in safety, term actions. on TV”, says Margareth Julião, who When there’s a meeting, we all go and keep producing. In 2020, just as protected against covid-19. Acrylic has been bringing back her own fish together”, says Margareth. And they were finally beginning to see a screens and ventilators will be installed, “The restructuring project will provide from the sea since the age of fifteen. it was in this collective spirit that steady inflow of cash, along came and each worker will have her very own the conditions we need to go back they began to produce an extremely the pandemic and put everything PPEs. In addition, a nurse is going to be to work. We’re 100% focused. Six In the beginning, she’d ask her varied menu out of their spoils from on freeze. on-hand to coordinate the sanitization months from now, we’ll be up and brother to take her out, but after a the sea—from fish burgers to fish of the locale and to accompany the running again”, says Margareth, time she started going with a girl ice-cream. In 2017, they founded “We had to close the co-op, turn health of those present. With protection excited about the future. “Our re- friend, then another and another. Native Women—Cooperative of Craft off the machinery, and keep paying in place, the idea is that every week beginning starts now”. Before she knew it, there were at least Fisherwomen and Growers of Native the rent despite the lack of income”, for the next six months, the co-op will ten women sailing out on the waves. Plants in the Lake District, and rented says Margareth. “That was when be able to transform 60kg of fish hauls * Text by Bernardo Câmara, originally written for the newsletter “Linhas do “Today, when we turn up to fish, the a HQ so they could organize their the Marine and Fisheries Research into exclusive product and income for Mar”, published by the Marine and men talk to us, greet us, treat us with work as a group. Project appeared. It was the lifeline the families. Fisheries Research Project. ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 40

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Gabriela Gama, supported by FUNBIO Grants – Conserving the Future 2020, at the Marituba do Peixe EPA in Alagoas. Photo: Personal archive ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 41

FUNBIO GRANTS The third edition of the FUNBIO Grants Program—Conserving the Future received 450 proposals and conferred a record number of payments. With the 37 grants issued in 2020, the – CONSERVING Program's total comes to 97, 59 of which were awarded to female researchers. 61% is an expressive cut, especially if we consider that women THE FUTURE make up only 40% of the nation’s doctoral researchers, according to Fapesp.

Launched in 2018, the program has been supported by the Instituto Humanize since day-one. A new call is issued on June 5 each year—World Environment Day, and the anniversary of FUNBIO’s founding. Supporting master’s and Ph.D research is a GRANT HOLDERS DOCTORAL STUDENTS vital contribution to science and to 97 79 knowledge-building in Brazil, as well as to the formation of future leaders.

Among the new projects selected is a study that hopes to understand how WOMEN MASTER’S DEGREE STUDENTS social-media communication (winning 59 18 hearts and minds) has contributed to protected-area governance. The study will make use of big data and AI tools.

Another research project, to be conducted in the Cerrado (see MEN INSTITUTIONS 38 36 highlight), will explore the relationship between bats and viruses and the mammal's capacity to serve as a viral reservoir, with potentially disastrous effects on public health. It’s a relationship that is currently being STATES + FEDERAL DISTRICT explored worldwide, and this study 20 will plug a significant knowledge gap in Brazil. ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 42 FUNBIO GRANTS – CONSERVING THE FUTURE

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Artificial Intelligence sheds light on PA communication and governance

The social media age has turned us “During the first stage, we’ll The standout feature of the proposal questions as “Does this park have governance. This should result in all into creators of content. And that evaluate the general perception lies in its rare use of big data—vast a communication plan?”; “How best practices that can guide PA includes Protected Areas (PAs). PA people on Twitter and YouTube quantities of information gathered is the local community informed communication drives in these managers have become important have about Brazil’s 334 federal strict and analyzed by algorithms—in about the actions it rolls out?”; and new online times. producers and propagators of and sustainable use PAs. What most studies on PAs. While big data has “Are the PA’s meetings open to information—first-hand, and often whet my curiosity was the kind already revolutionized the consumer the public?”. The study will focus in real time, with the capacity of emotional response they elicit and medical sectors—where on the Managing Councils of PAs to inform and the potential to (positive, negative, neutral). During artificial intelligence has learned and include questionnaires, record influence and involve. But how stage two, we’ll collect data on six to interpret tests and clinical exams analyses, and interviews. has this veritable digital revolution National Parks, though which six and so fine-tune diagnoses—, the changed the way we look at PAs is yet to be decided. The idea is to socioenvironmental sector has yet to The results will allow us to and how they are run? These are analyze how communication, the fully explore these new technologies. understand which themes and the questions the biologist Carolina manner in which it is approached what types of communication Neves Souza, a Ph.D candidate on and the digital channels it is done Where phase one will harvest Brazil- generate most engagement, and the Federal University of Alagoas through can influence people’s first data sets on the perceptions how a sense of belonging can (or Post-graduate Program in Biology participation in decision-making and feelings a relevant cross-section not) result in greater participation and Conservation in the Tropics, spaces”, says Carolina. of the population has about PAs, from different segments either aims to answer. phase two will answer such important directly or indirectly in PA ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 43 FUNBIO GRANTS – CONSERVING THE FUTURE

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Study will assess the risk of Cerrado bats serving as viral hosts

As a child and teen, Batman was his As we’ll be doing viral metagenomics, from one host to a novel host—bat to previously restricted to certain areas “In addition to its sanitary aspect, my favorite super hero. As an adult, real that is, a survey of the genetic material some other animal—, which can then to spread out in search of new habitat. study also has an ecological concern. bats—frightening to some, adorable to of all the viruses found in these bats, pass it on directly to man. In some cases, the result is greater The strategy of eliminating bats SDG others—took their definitive place in there is a good chance we’ll come across proximity to human populations, and wholesale by blowing up caves, for Igor Daniel Bueno Rocha’s life. It was at various other common tropical viruses “There’s a knowledge shortfall in Brazil this increased contact is causing major example, could be devastating to a University of Brasília (UnB) laboratory with epidemiological potential. More when it comes to bats and viruses. concern among the scientific community endangered bat species that play a that the biologist delved once and for importantly, ascertaining whether SARS- Here, research tends to focus on rabies, given the risk of spillover and potential key role in pollination”, says Rocha. all into the science of the world’s only CoV-2 is present in our bats will enable for example, given its potential to pandemics. flying mammal, the theme of a project us to infer the likelihood of human infect animals and so negatively affect The researcher will conduct field approved on the third edition of the transmission to bats as well, which is livestock”, says the Ph.D candidate on Rocha’s work, the first of its kind studies in caves in the Federal District. FUNBIO Grants program. Rocha will prejudicial to the species’ conservation”, the UnB Post-graduate Program in Brazil, will help us know which study at least eight species of bat found says Rocha. in Ecology. viruses bats are carrying south of the in the Cerrado savanna, potential hosts Equator. Today, most such studies are of viruses that could pose a massive The covid-19 pandemic has further Of the estimated 1,400 bat species concentrated in Asia, where bats are challenge to public health. increased global interest in bats, known thought to exist worldwide, 181 are consumed as a delicacy in certain places. viral reservoirs, which many fear have found in Brazil. Of these, at least 103 According to Rocha, the same happens “Earlier studies had detected the the potential to trigger a process known inhabit the Cerrado. Climate change and here, but it’s very rare. presence of coronavirus in Brazilian bats. as spillover, where the pathogen adapts deforestation are causing populations ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 44 FUNBIO GRANTS – CONSERVING PROJECTS SUPPORTED THE FUTURE 2018 2019** 2020 Guiana Venezuela French Guiana Suriname Colombia ATLANTIC OCEAN 52 CONSERVATION, SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT AND USE OF FAUNA AND FLORA 14 TERRITORIAL MANAGEMENT FOR BIODIVERSITY PROTECTION

21 Peru CLIMATE CHANGE AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION

Bolivia 10 LANDSCAPE AND DEGRADED-AREA RECOVERY Paraguay Chile

THE AMAZON ATLANTIC FOREST

CAATINGA PAMPA

Argentina CERRADO PANTANAL

* Some projects have field work underway in more than one territory, ** In 2019, the thematic group Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity was subsumed hence the dots on the map outnumber the projects supported. under Conservation and Sustainable Management and Use of Fauna and Flora. Uruguay ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 45 FUNBIO GRANTS

Backed by Humanize since its very first edition, the FUNBIO Grants Program is an essential initiative – CONSERVING for conservation, totally aligned with our remit of inspiring transformation in people and territories, and with each passing year it reveals new data that underscores the richness of our biodiversity. The program’s results attest to the important role fostering research plays in forming new generations who THE FUTURE are engaged in the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.” “GEORGIA PESSOA, Executive director of the Instituto Humanize

BRUNO HENRIQUE DOS S. FERREIRA INGRID NAIARA GOMES JULIANA NASCIMENTO NERES MÁRCIO PORT CARVALHO NATÁLIA DALLAGNOL VARGAS Studying for a Ph.D in Ecology and Studying for a Ph.D in Ecology, Studying for a Ph.D in Ecology: Theory, Studying for a Ph.D in Protected Area Studying for a Ph.D in Animal Biology, Conservation, Federal University of Conservation and Wildlife Management, Application and Values, Federal University Biodiversity, Botanical Garden of Federal University of Rio Grande do Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS) Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) of Bahia, UFBA Rio de Janeiro (JBRJ) Sul (UFRGS)

In recent years, the inexorable increase in the One of the most important environmental Mangroves are safe havens and feeding and The white-eared marmoset is one of the Climate change has become one of the main size and frequency of forest fires has become functions native bees perform is pollination. breeding grounds for countless species, and 25 most severely endangered species on the drivers behind species extinctions. In the Atlantic one of the main threats posed to Brazil’s However, their ability to fulfill that role has bring innumerable benefits for humanity. planet. This project will study the ecology and Forest, these effects will have long-term impact indigenous territories. However, the controlled been hampered over the years by habitat loss However, problems like pollution can affect behavior of all the primate’s populations in the on the geographic distribution of the admirable use of fire can actually benefit biodiversity, caused by urban sprawl and development. chlorophyll production, which is a key indicator Cantareira mountain range in São Paulo, with a red-bellied toad and Brazilian red-bellied toad, which is why indigenous populations have used This study analyzes interactions between of ecosystemic health. On this project, satellite view to generating information to support the two of the least studied and most endangered fire for thousands of years and continue to use Brazilian bees and plant life in cities in order imagery is used to assess the chlorophyll content creation of conservation strategies for of the biome’s amphibian species. This study will it today. This study analyzes the effects fires to understand how greenery (parks, squares, and photosynthetic capacity of Bahia’s mangrove the species. understand where these toads live and compare and flooding have on seed germination in the vegetable gardens and gardens in general) can forests. By doing this we hope to understand their tolerance to varying temperatures at Pantanal wetlands. The goal is to understand help reduce the effects urbanization is having the effects contaminants are having on this different life stages so as to predict how which species’ seeds show potential for use in on pollinators. ecosystem and issue directives to mitigate they will respond to future changes in climate. biome restoration so that an integrated fire- their environmental impact. management protocol can be created. ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 46

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47 COPAÍBAS 50 ARPA 53 REM MT 56 TRADITION AND FUTURE IN THE AMAZON 57 KAYAPÓ FUND 59 A MILLION TREES FOR THE XINGU 60 GOLDEN LION TAMARIN CONSERVATION 61 GOLDEN LION TAMARIN PROJECT 62 GEF TERRESTRE 64 ATLANTIC FOREST 65 PROBIO II 67 AMAPÁ FUND 68 ABROLHOS LAND AND SEA FUND 69 GEF MAR 70 SEA GARBAGE IN SP DONATIONS UNIT ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 47

COPAÍBAS In 2020, the conservation of the The plan provides for the Amazon and Cerrado, Brazil’s two participation of civil society largest and most severely endangered organizations in carrying out the Community, Protected Areas and Indigenous biomes, gained an important new activities selected on future calls ally with the launch of COPAÍBAS for projects. Peoples Project in the Brazilian Amazon and – Community, Protected Areas Cerrado Savannah | and Indigenous Peoples Project In July 2020, a contract was signed Brazil nut from in the Brazilian Amazon and on the year-long first phase of the the Chico Mendes/ Cerrado Savannah. Backed by the project, which will lay the structural ICMBio Extractive Norwegian Ministry for Foreign groundwork for attaining the four Reserve, Acre. Photo: Victor Affairs and designed to extend key goals. This preparatory phase Moriyama/FUNBIO through to 2026, the initiative sets will include analyses and studies to four performance targets that are establish the essential conditions considered fundamental to containing required to bring the four goals to and curbing activities that deplete fruition. This process will involve native plant cover and pose a selecting the protected areas the threat to climate stability and to the project will support and hiring the hydrographic system. The two biomes consultants who will help structure at the heart of the project are home to the implementation strategies for Brazil’s vastest extensions of savannah, the remaining components. woodland and forest cover. The first goal is to furnish state- The strategy devised is fourfold: managed PAs in the Cerrado with the necessary support. Among — strengthen the protected-area the activities planned are the system in the Cerrado; structuring and improvement of PA management capacity; — tighten up indigenous territorial strengthening of the public use management; of these areas with a view to identifying tourism potential — improve the information stream and encouraging the creation of reaching the public concerning the visitation plans that envision the importance of Protected Areas in economic benefit of the local mitigating climate change and in communities; the implementation conserving biodiversity; of initiatives that set technical supervision protocols for integrated — and boost the economic efficiency fire management at priority PAs; and of local sociobiodiversity the drafting of management plans value chains and production to stimulate the creation of Private arrangements. Natural Heritage Reserves (PNHRs). DONATIONS UNIT ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 48

OTTD AAS

Increase the number of consolidated state-run COPAÍBAS A Protected Areas (PAs) in the Cerrado

Incentivize the creation of Private Natural Heritage B Reserves (PNHRs) Reducing deforestation and AIN greenhouse-gas emissions Support territorial, environmental mngmt of Indigenous Lands through strategies that RONT further the conservation D Strengthen indigenous populations and organizations of the native vegetation of the Amazon and Cerrado, and Support the reduction of deforestation and improving the living conditions greenhouse-gas emissions in order to curb climate change of traditional communities and indigenous peoples F Value the native vegetation of the Amazon and Cerrado are the main goals of OABAS. INFOATION

T AAON Inform the public about the importance of T AAON protected areas and their relevance in maintaining ADO A essential environmental services, such as water supply T OST BIODIS and climate control SAANNA IN T OD Inform the public about the potential of supporting T AAON Considered the “cradle of the waters”, as it B the is home to the headwaters of eight of the twelve consuming sociobiodiversity products T ODS OST ADO BIODIS FOST BIOONO Roughly 60% of the biome — which stretches across nine countries — is located in Brazil species of native plant* 200 Generate income by helping structure sociobiodiverse species of mammal* product chains and Local Productive Arrangements (LPAs). Potential Value Chains in the Amazon and Cerrado are: 0 A species of plant* 00 sh, brazil nut, vegetable oils and resins, such as crabwood, species of bird* copaíba, rubber, açaí, cacau, baru nut, babassu, and a 00 species of mammal* 0 variety of regional fruits species of reptile* TOGETHER species of bird* 0 T AAON N species of amphibian* Improve sociobiodiversity production B infrastructure, processing, transport and ADO IOES 200 commercial outlets Home to the world’s STOC species of sh* *

Facilitate access to technical assistance Spread over Over km²** A 27.3% km²** A 8.23% Promote the participation and integration of women O D OF RIS D O D into these value chains roughly 80% 224 thou km²** — area larger than Uruguay CRON a little over 30% 282,200 mil km²**— area the size of Ecuador

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COPAÍBAS Phase two of COPAÍBAS will incentivize provision of ecosystem services that the Prevention and Control of actions that collaborate toward the are essential to human welfare, whilst Deforestation in the Legal Amazon successful territorial and environmental generating income for traditional (PPCDAm) and the Action Plan management of Indigenous communities and indigenous peoples. for the Prevention and Control of Homelands and strengthen indigenous Deforestation and Forest Fires in institutions therein. This process will The project aims to encourage the Cerrado (PPCerrado) fosters be developed in partnership with inclusive development of the adoption of sustainable local associations and leaders so as sociobiodiversity production production activities, especially to ensure that they duly value and chains—brazil nut, for example—, those developed within a pro- recognize their experience, needs and identifying improvement opportunities biodiversity economic model. The priorities. Though the planning also for infrastructure, the funding technical guidance outlined in the includes activities in the Amazon, model used, and the adoption of action plans also has the potential COPAÍBAS identified the urgency of recommended production practices. to generate income and life-quality prioritizing support for indigenous improvements for traditional territories in the Cerrado. In 2020, Another COPAÍBAS goal is to communities and indigenous studies were launched to define the strengthen local co-ops and peoples, who live in greater funding models and project types to associations institutionally and in terms harmony with nature. be supported. of their management capacity, and to develop production arrangements In a recent study on the Communication will also feature based on synergies between development of the Duty Free heavily in COPAÍBAS, with the creation producer organizations, companies, Zone in Manaus, the Escolhas of activities that stimulate awareness local government and other social Institute estimated the current of the importance of environmental institutions that contribute towards value of the bioeconomy in conservation, especially in Protected sustainable territorial development Amazonas State alone at R$ 3.1 Areas and Indigenous Territories, and that generate benefits for billion, with potential to reach R$ and of promoting sociobiodiversity the communities. 10 billion over the next ten years. production chains as a way of According to the study, that sort mitigating the effects of global One of the lines of approach of growth would create something warming and of maintaining the present in both the Action Plan for in the region of 60 thousand jobs. NDC

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— Açaí from the Chico Mendes/ ICMBio Extractive Reserve, Acre. Photo: Victor Moriyama/FUNBIO DONATIONS UNIT ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 50

ARPA The world’s largest tropical-forest through the German Development conservation project, the Amazon Bank (KfW); the Global Environment Region Protected Areas Program Facility (GEF), through the World Bank; Amazon Region Protected Areas Program (ARPA) has made an invaluable WWF; the Gordon & Betty Moore contribution over the last 18 years Foundation; and Anglo American. to the environmental preservation FUNBIO financially manages and of an area equivalent to 15% of executes the donated sums. ARPA has the Brazilian Amazon. Rallying served as a model for similar initiatives the efforts of government, civil in Peru and Colombia. society and the business sector, the initiative, which promotes the In 2020, ARPA consolidated a series protection and sustainable use of of initiatives that enabled it to fine- 60 million hectares, is scheduled to tune its management and financial be phased out by 2039, when the control of donations, conferring running costs of its Protected Areas greater agility and efficiency upon the (PAs) will be assumed in full by the operations rolled out by PA managers. public sphere. An automated financial system was adopted to facilitate access to funds The program’s actions, carried out cleared for use, with disbursements at state and federal PAs across nine made directly to a reloadable credit Brazilian states, are coordinated by card, accepted by an expanded the Ministry for the Environment network of Amazonian suppliers, so and receive financial support from that they can be used directly to cover domestic and foreign donors, fuel and food expenses and vehicle such as the German Government, and vessel maintenance.

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São João da Ponta Extractive Reserve, Pará. Photo: Victor Moriyama/FUNBIO

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— ARPA Residents at the Rio Ouro Preto Extractive Reserve, Roraima. Photo: Ricardo Plácido

ANTICOVID ACTIONS

The ARPA Program had to adapt its The spread of Coronavirus posed a drives at the communities and strategy in 2020, due to restrictions severe threat to the food security of transport to and from bank agencies imposed by covid-19. With social the population ARPA attends, as the so that withdrawals could be made). isolation and the economy at a smallholders and extractivists had no In all, over five thousand people were standstill, the Program had to rethink its way of selling their produce. helped in this manner over the course scheduled actions and innovate in order of 2020. to ensure that the PAs could continue A number of initiatives were organised running as normal. Program donors to help guarantee the security of the Another solidarity action within the really stepped up with emergency communities and PA teams, such as the scope of the ARPA program was actions to help tackle the pandemic distribution of necessity hampers; the assistance given to the ICMBio in in the Amazon. purchase of PPEs (masks, disinfectant releasing funds for the prevention PATRICK JACÓ gels, thermometers and sanitising and control of forest fires and Environmental analyst of Chico Mendes Biodiversity Conservation The Transition Fund Committee mats); and assistance to ensure that deforestation in the Amazon. The Institute (ICMBio), Mãe Grande de Curuçá Extractive Reserve, PA approved the release of approximately those eligible for Federal Government Transition Fund Committee authorised R$ 1 million to cover emergency- emergency support received the the liberation of R$720 thousand for “We selected communities from the reserve using support projects for the program’s PAs. stipend (actions included registration PAs in need of emergency aid. the communication and access’ difficulty criteria. In addition to the basic food baskets, personal hygiene kit and gel alcohol, contemplated families were also instructed on how to behave in this pandemic and avoid agglomerations.” RELEASE OF APPROXIMATELY R$1 million TO COVER EMERGENCY-SUPPORT PROJECTS FOR THE PROGRAM’S PAS 6.189 2.842 372 276 50 PEOPLE ATTENDED BASIC FOODS BASKETS FAMILIES SIGNED COLLABORATORS TRANSPORT (FOOD SECURITY) DISTRIBUTED ON FOR EMERGENCY RECEIVED PPES ASSISTANCE SO PEOPLE AID FROM THE COULD COLLECT THEIR GOVERNMENT BENEFIT PAYMENTS DONATIONS UNIT ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 52

ARPA Also on the topic of financial case-studies on gender issues, one management, a local expense of which was initially conducted at account project was implemented an ARPA-supported PA (the Igapó- that not only simplifies and expedites Açu Sustainable Development the execution of PA funds on the Reserve in Amazonas). ground, but ensures more security SUPPORT FOR MILLION HECTARES too. Other important advances were: A contingency fund was also 60.8 the automation of the asset-donation approved to cover emergencies process; further developments to not already provided for under the acquisitions platform; and the institutional security mechanisms honing of consultancy procurement and compliance. PROTECTED AREAS BENEFITED 117 and construction-work requisitioning protocols and analytics. In 2020, FUNBIO also administered specific training Despite such an anomalous year, the courses to PA managers. Due to 15% MANAGERS GIVEN TRAINING ONLINE program managed to launch two social distancing requirements, Amazon Sustainable Landscapes for the first time ever one of the – ASL supervision missions so courses was delivered to a class of that beneficiaries could report on 25 via remote learning. The online expenditure and their progress initiative was a complete success towards established targets. Further and has paved the way toward availing of ARPA’s ample expertise, a further developments in 2021. partnership was cemented this year for the publication of a financial On a similar note, Transition Fund sustainability guide for projects committee meetings, attended by requiring long-term funding. Also program donors and representatives in 2020, the World Bank hired a of the Brazilian Government, were consultancy firm to select projects for also held online. NDC

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Cabo Orange National Park, Amapá. Photo: Victor Moriyama/ FUNBIO DONATIONS UNIT ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 53

REM MT A pioneering initiative from the as its territory straddles three key German government, the REDD biomes: Amazon rainforest, Cerrado Early Movers (REM) program, savanna and Pantanal wetland. REDD Early Movers (REM) Global Program – Mato Grosso designed to recompense countries or states committed to keeping their REM MT, which got underway in forests intact so as to mitigate the 2019, is jointly funded by Germany, effects of climate change, gained through the German Development significant ground in conservation Bank (KfW), and Britain, through in Mato Grosso in 2020. The state the Department for Business, Energy was inducted into the project in and industrial Strategy (BEIS). — recognition of its expressive results FUNBIO is operational and financial in curbing deforestation, which manager of the program, while the Photo: José Medeiros/SEMA was slashed by 90% between 2004 Mato Grosso Department for the MT and 2014. Mato Grosso is vitally Environment (SEMA) handles the important to Brazil’s conservation technical management of the four and sustainable-development drive, REM-MT subprograms.

INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING AND STRUCTURING PUBLIC POLICIES

The year 2000 saw the institutional sends them to a data analysis recomposition commitments are consolidation of the REM MT platform that sounds the alarm if being met by the rural properties the program. Fresh initiatives enabled more than a hectare of forest has organs inspect. the continuity and fine-tuning of been degraded within that 24 hours the structure in place to combat period. Near-real-time tracking like Thanks to the program, the deforestation by strengthening this ensures a rapid response can Department for the Environment the institutes doing the monitoring. be planned and executed by the was able to expand the fleet of An extension was negotiated to inspection crews. vehicles available for monitoring the contract signed in 2019 with and inspection activities and issue the satellite monitoring company In parallel, improvements are being a contract for the removal of entrusted with tracking forest made to the crime notification confiscated heavy machinery, such degradation. system between the state’s as tractors and, in one case, even a Department for the Environment helicopter. This helps decapitalize The system captures daily high- and Public Prosectors’ Office. This organizations engaged in resolution satellite images and is important to ensure that forest environmental crime. DONATIONS UNIT ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 54

REM MT | Delivery of basic food baskets to Indigenous Territories. Photo: Reproduction/REM MT SUPPORT FOR INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Another REM MT emergency measure, | coordinated by the Mato Grosso Department for the Environment, Fire-fighter combatting the managed to channel R$300 thousand wildfires that into a series of actions to combat the spread through wildfires raging in the Pantanal and EMERGENCY ACTIONS the Estrada da Amazon. Reloadable expense cards Guia region in were made available so that the local AGAINST WILDFIRES Mato Grosso. Photo: Mayke focal points could purchase first aid Toscano/Secom-MT material, medical supplies, food and Joint action by FUNBIO and the State water, provide the infrastructure Government of Mato Grosso enabled required to treat wildlife injured in the program to reevaluate the | the blaze, and support the work of commitments assumed and reroute the volunteers and firefighters. its resources in a bid to minimize Fire in the the impact on the environment Pantanal wetlands, and indigenous populations. MT. Photo: Mayke Toscano/Secom-MT Straight off, as soon as the pandemic broke out, emergency support actions were prepared to ensure food security for indigenous communities, with the acquisition and distribution of over a thousand basic needs hampers to villages in lockdown/lockout. Next, planning began on new forms of assistance with the Federation of Indigenous Peoples of Mato Grosso (FEPOIMT).

With approval from the German Development Bank (KfW), R$9million in covid-19 aid was disbursed for support projects in indigenous territories. The funds are being used to buy PPEs, virus detection tests, and medical supplies, as well as to shore up the food security effort. Five partner institutions will be acting in conjunction with FEPOIMT. DONATIONS UNIT ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 55

REM MT In 2020, the program took a In practice, they will make a decisive considerable step forward by contribution to keeping forests intact, strengthening the adoption of healthy and fully functioning within sustainability and biodiversity the nation’s ecosystem. At present, conservation practices across the Mato Grosso has 104 Protected | | | state. Over the course of the year, Areas, 71 Indigenous Territories and 2 two project calls were issued, Quilombos (colonies originally formed Tractor working Corn plantation Banana grower resulting in the selection and by escaped slaves), together totaling on the Colíder in Juara, Mato José Borges. plantation in Mato Grosso. Photo: Photo: Fátima approval of 29 initiatives that will 18.1% of the state’s total hectarage. Grosso. Photo: Igor Murilo da Rosa foster sustainable development and 60% of Mato Grosso’s native land Cleverson Braz Mateus biodiversity preservation in Brazil’s cover remains untouched. largest Midwestern state. The projects are subsumed under two In 2020, despite the adversities posed of the four REM-MT subprograms: by covid-19, the German Development Sustainable Production, Innovation Bank (KfW) conducted a remote CALL FOR PROJECTS and Markets; and Smallholder monitoring mission to stay abreast Agriculture and Traditional of REM MT’s progress toward the Two calls for projects launched during help curb C02 emissions. Funding will selected from a project call that, due Communities. execution of its planned measures. the year lent a new dimension to two run to R$ 32 million. The intention to the pandemic, occurred almost Also last year, the program made REM MT subprograms: Sustainable is to back initiatives that can help entirely online. The expectation is The chosen projects, which will headway with its financial structuring, Production, Innovation and Markets; transform high-impact production that the initiatives will help ensure and Smallholder Agriculture and chains into low-carbon, sustainable the conservation of natural areas receive investments in the order simplifying and conferring greater Traditional Communities. Expected businesses. The actions are part by implementing sustainable of R$ 40 million, will be carried agility on its ability to disburse funds investments could reach R$ 40 million. of the Smallholder Agriculture production models and improving out in priority areas, especially to cover minor expenses and contract and Traditional Communities forest management by timber, municipalities that have high carbon local partners, especially in hard-to- FUNBIO selected and approved subprogram. livestock and soya concerns. stocks and welling or waning flows. reach areas. 23 projects to channel financial support to family smallholders and Regarding Sustainable Production, In 2020, work began on capacitating NDC extractivists who adopt sustainable- Innovation and Markets, R$ 8.5 million the institutions behind the 29 projects use and reforestation practices that will be pumped into six proposals approved on these two calls.

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TRADITION The “Tradition and Future in the Management Plan (TEMP) for the Other actions will include Amazon” project aims to contribute Menkragnoti Indigenous Territory. environmental education for towards the Kayapó people’s territorial The idea is to involve indigenous Kayapó children and youths. and environmental management by communities in devising a plan that These endeavors are expected executing initiatives that maintain the will heighten Kayapó leadership and to further the professional AND FUTURE natural land cover at their Indigenous autonomy in processes of territorial development of indigenous teachers Territories (ITs). Preserving the natural control, environmental protection and through experience-sharing with forest helps reinforce biodiversity the sustainable use of natural resources. other educators at indigenous conservation, regulate carbon stocks communities. IN THE and boost appreciation for traditional Key to the project’s success is knowledge. The Kayapó live in 10.6 identifying the most pressing needs The targets set for the project also million hectares of protected forest of the Kayapó and indicating the include the collation, updating and spanning northern Mato Grosso and activities that need to be prioritized monitoring of carbon-stock data in AMAZON the south of Pará state. in terms of cherishing and preserving Kayapó Indigenous Territories. Once indigenous heritage and culture. the information is gathered it will be Launched in 2020, the project is backed possible to create activities aligned | by the Petrobras Socioambiental project The project will also support training with the increasingly accepted and will be conducted in partnership and capacitation actions among the concept that forests are worth more, Indigenous with Conservation International indigenous population, especially and can generate more income, headdress being made. Brazil (CI-Brasil) and the indigenous youths and women, with focus on such when they are properly conserved. Photo: Danielle organizations representing the themes as representation, education, Calandino/FUNBIO Kayapó—Associação Floresta Protegida, communication, project management, To contribute to food security among Instituto Raoni and Instituto Kabu. income generation and respect and the Kayapó, the project will work FUNBIO is the project’s proponent and appreciation for traditional knowledge. towards ongoing capacitation for the executor of the R$ 5.1 million in One of the ideas is to encourage the the installation and consolidation of funding provided by Petrobras. The preparation and participation of 650 sustainable production systems, such initiative is scheduled for completion direct representatives and a thousand as traditional plots and Agroforestry in February 2023. part-time or occasional representatives Systems (AFSs)—a model that at fora and other entities devoted to combines tree species (fruit-bearing The strategy includes the creation defining or implanting actions within or lumber trees) with crops or animal of a Territorial and Environmental Indigenous Territories. husbandry.

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KAYAPÓ Turning ten in 2021, the Kayapó Fund production chains, and institutional revenues; and incomes from arts and (KF) was the first long-term financial strengthening of indigenous crafts shot up from R$ 62 thousand to mechanism designed to support associations. R$ 1 million. indigenous peoples in Brazil. Over the last nine years, it has worked tirelessly During this last decade, the KF Since the KF started its operations, FUND to improve the quality of life and has obtained significant results: there have been three cycles of increase the autonomy of the Kayapó, nine thousand tribe members were support for eight subprojects, selected a tribe which occupies 10.6 million involved in sustainable-production through project calls. These eight hectares of conserved old-growth activities, and two thousand five- subprograms are coordinated by three forest and savanna in the borderlands hundred received territorial and organizations representing the Kayapó: between northern Mato Grosso and environmental management training. the Raoni Institute, Kabu Institute, and the south of Pará—an area a little In all, 86 territorial and environmental Protected Forest Association, which 10 PROJECTS SUPPORTED larger than Portugal. management initiatives were together implement activities across all executed with the Fund’s six Kayapó ITs, located in the so-called The fund was created to irrigate collaboration. In conjunction with “Deforestation Belt” of the Amazon, a indigenous organizations through other funding sources, the Kayapó region rife with land conflicts. 6 NDIGENOUS TERRITORIES SUPPORTED donations, so that they could carry out Fund also achieved a great deal in projects in the Kayapó, Menkragnoti, the development of sustainable- In 2020, the fund began a fourth cycle Bau, Badjonkôre and Las Casas production chains between 2013 of investments by selecting three new Indigenous Territories in Pará, and the and 2020: Brazil nut production initiatives to receive R$ 4.2 million in

MILLION HECTARES BENEFITED Capoto/Jarina IT in Mato Grosso. The grew from 200 tons to 450, boosting funding. Of the three chosen projects, 12 idea is to carry out activities focused income generation from R$ 400 one is still in contract phase, while | on biodiversity protection, territorial thousand to R$ 3.2 million; tonka two have already been rolled out by monitoring, income generation bean output last year reached 24 the partner indigenous institutions, Indigenous through participation in sustainable- tons, generating a million reais in reaffirming the proposal of stepping Territory, Jarina. Photo: Danielle Calandino/FUNBIO DONATIONS UNIT ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 58

KAYAPÓ up Kayapó involvement in the The Instituto Kabu (IK) was contracted resources. The hope is to generate planning and execution of activities to run the project “Mekrãfnotí income by valuing the forest in its so as to consolidate their political and Territory Defense in the Southwestern pristine state. Actions will also be economic autonomy. The Kayapó are Pará Deforestation Corridor”, which, developed to empower women and known for their culture and struggle to mindful of the growing interest in new youths so as to strengthen the IR FUND have their rights recognized. technologies and services that can institutionally. help the Kayapó protect their territory | The project “Concerted Strategy for and the integrity of their culture, will The proposal includes such actions as Handmade Tackling the Growing Threats Faced ally traditional and technical/scientific the training of indigenous fire-fighters; craftwork made by the Kayapó Territory”, in Pará, was bodies of knowledge. the acquisition of forest-fire protection by the Kayapó. Photo: Dante presented by the Protected Forest equipment; the installation of Novaes/FUNBIO Association (AFP). Among the actions Among the selected activities are: Agroforestry systems so as to improve planned are: steps to improve the monitoring of mercury contamination traditional orchards; structuring of tribe’s capacity to protect its territory; in the fish of the Pixaxá River; flour processing units; harvest support; the development of agro-extractivism training of indigenous youths to processing and sale of tonka bean production chains (tonka bean and use the MapBiomas platform, an seeds; coaching of women in the Brazil nut); institutional strengthening; open-access collaboration with areas of administration, legislation, and improved communication actions Google Earth; capacitation for the oratory, and argumentation; guidance (AFP). harvesting, processing, storage and for youths and women on such issues sale of heirloom seeds; introduction of as income-generation, food security, A number of measures will be taken solar energy at Kayapó villages; and environmental education, and public to reach these goals, such as: training provision of audiovisual training for policy; Kayapó legacy-building and for 30 Kayapó environmental agents; indigenous youths so that they can human rights. territorial surveillance expeditions; start producing content. attendance of Kayapó representatives The Kayapó Fund was established at discussions on public policy geared The “Me˜ Anodjá” project, put forward using donations from Conservation towards indigenous peoples; and by the Instituto Raoni (IR), is designed International Brazil (CI-Brasil), through hiring of consulting firms to hone to help protect the Capoto/Jarina and the Global Conservation Fund (GCF), the COOBÂ-Y co-op, evaluate the Menkragnoti ITs in Pará and Mato and the Brazilian Development Bank arts-and-crafts chain and develop Grosso, specifically their populations, (BNDES), through the Amazon Fund. the cacau business. customs and ways of life, and natural FUNBIO is financial manager.

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A MILLION The A Million Trees for the Xingu tons of 91 species were ordered project received fresh impetus to last year, including monkey comb, expand its reforestation activities in Brazilian fern, araracanga, tamarind Mato Grosso, a midwestern state and the Xingu pequi. Most of these where three Brazilian biomes meet— seeds are already available for TREES FOR the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal. planting. In May 2020, a new target was set to strengthen environmental conservation In addition to contributing to in the state: the planting of a further reforestation, the project also THE XINGU 215 thousand trees around the helps strengthen the Xingu | headwaters of the Xingu River by Seed Network. The sale of seeds March 2022. generates income for the network’s Clerizia B. 600 hundred-plus collectors, Farias Pantaleão processing tingui The result of a partnership between among indigenous tribes, family seeds (Magonia FUNBIO, Rock World (Rock in Rio) and smallholders and extractivists. A pubescens). Photo: Tui Anandi/ISA the Instituto Socioambiental (ISA), restoration technique known as the initiative has hit one target after “muvuca” (seedbombing) is used another since 2016. With an initial to plant the seeds. The process, goal of planting a million trees, the considered the most economic project managed to up that to 1.32 and efficient method, involves the million native Amazonian specimens planting of “bombs" packed with over the last three years, reforesting assorted seeds that then grow at a 276-hectare area around the upper their own pace, according to their tributaries of the Xingu. respective growth cycles.

Since it began four years ago, the The new investment in the project project has been able to count on the totals R$ 1 million and derives from support of a key ally: the Xingu Seed donations to Rock World (Rock Network Association (ARSX), which in Rio) fundraising campaigns, has supplied 25 tons of seeds for 86 conducted by the company’s native Amazonian species. In order to socioenvironmental project, NDC pursue this new target, a further five Amazonia Live.

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GOLDEN LION An important initiative to protect the Throughout 2020, technicians golden lion tamarin (Leontopithecus accompanied the saplings’ growth, rosalia) reached its targets in 2020. In conducting maintenance and August, the monitoring phase of the restocking where necessary. Forest forest restoration project was executed restoration will enable the formation TAMARIN across a 14-hectare area of the of wildlife corridors that will join Silva Jardim municipality, one of the forest fragments where the golden remaining pockets of habitat for an lion tamarin still lives. Some of the endemic species that has been listed as reforestation work was done at CONSERVATION endangered since the 1960s. one end of the country’s very first eco-overpass, built across the BR- In 2019, to help ensure a future for 101 Federal Highway. The overpass Partnership: Forest Restoration for Golden Lion Tamarin Conservation the marmoset, 20 thousand saplings connects the Poço das Antas Biological of 66 native Atlantic Forest species, Reserve and the São João/Golden lion including Argentine cedar, Cattley tamarin Environmental Protection guava and jussara palm, were planted Area in Silva Jardim. at Igarapé Ranch, the headquarters of the Golden Lion Tamarin Association Bringing previously isolated groups (AMLD), the executor of the project into contact this way will boost the "Partnership: Forest Restoration for species’ genetic variability, decrease the Conservation of the Golden lion in-breeding and thus also reduce the tamarin”. The project is funded by effects caused by consanguinity. All ExxonMobil and financially managed of this will be a boon for golden lion by FUNBIO. tamarin conservation.

— Devastation before the reforestation NDC project got underway. Photo: Luiz Thiago de Jesus/AMLD SDG — After planting, the cradle of the golden lion tamarin in Rio de Janeiro shows considerable improvement. Photo: Luiz Thiago de Jesus/AMLD — Tree nursery in Silva Jardim, Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Helio Hara/FUNBIO DONATIONS UNIT ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 61

GOLDEN LION Pressing ahead with actions to protect funds will be of great help in one of the nation’s most severely installing visitor infrastructure and endangered species, in August 2020 all necessary safety and security work began on Phase Two of the systems. The new park’s standout Golden Lion Tamarin Project, funded feature will be an observation deck TAMARIN with a donation from ExxonMobil and from which to watch the golden lion financially managed by FUNBIO. Phase tamarin in the wild. Two hinges around a Partnership for | the Implementation of a Golden Lion This ecological belvedere will look PROJECT Female golden Tamarin Ecological Park at Igarapé out over the country’s very first lion tamarin Ranch, Silva Jardim, Rio de Janeiro, wildlife bridge, built over the BR- (Leontopithecus rosalia) with where a forest restoration process was 101 highway. The specially-designed Partnership for the Implementation of a Golden Lion Tamarin Ecological Park infants. Photo: carried out in 2020 with the planting crossing will link the new park to the Andréia Martins/ AMLD of 20 thousand native Atlantic-Forest Poço das Antas Reserve. The bridge saplings. will also be used by scientists and technicians monitoring the flow of the Fazenda Igarapé, the base of the tamarin back and forth between the Associação Mico-Leão-Dourado two PAs. Contact between hitherto (Golden Lion Tamarin Association), the isolated populations is considered key project’s executor, enjoys a strategic to healthy species reproduction, as it position from which to structure the fosters genetic exchange. species’ conservation drive, as this marmoset lives exclusively in a specific Another proposal is to encourage swath of Atlantic Forest. Located in visitor engagement in environmental the São João River Basin, the area preservation and golden lion tamarin was chosen as the site of the future protection through an onsite and park because it is home to remaining online communication drive. fragments of the golden lion tamarin’s forest habitat and is situated quite The initiative also includes the close to the Poço das Antas Biological ongoing maintenance of the 66 Reserve, another of the species’ species of Atlantic Forest saplings havens in Rio de Janeiro. In fact, this planted in 2019 under the project is the part of the state where most "Forest Restoration for Golden Lion NDC recorded sightings of the golden Tamarin Conservation". Specialists marmoset have been made. consider reforestation a significant contribution to the conservation of As part of the strategy, the new park the São João River Basin ecosystem, SDG will invest heavily in ecotourism, helping improve the quality of the so visitation support structures will water and air consumed by the require consolidation. The donated Eastern Rio State. DONATIONS UNIT ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 62

GEF TERRESTRE Recovering degraded areas, protecting of biological diversity; promote endangered species, and helping sustainable development; and institute and bolster Protected Area protect traditional communities, their Strategies for the Conservation, Restoration and Management (PA) management is the strategy the knowledge and culture. SNUC data GEF Terrestre project has adopted to show that only 2.9% of the Pampas, of Biodiversity in the Caatinga, Pampa and Pantanal promote biodiversity conservation 4.6% of the Pantanal and 9% of the in the Caatinga scrublands, Pampa Caatinga are currently protected. grasslands and Pantanal wetlands, | biomes where the native land cover is In order to achieve the set targets, in at serious risk in Brazil. Established in 2020 the project launched four calls São Francisco River Natural Landmark. May 2018, the initiative will be fully for subproject proposals to restore Photo: FAPESE in place by 2023, thanks to Global degraded areas in the Caatinga, Environment Facility (GEF) resources Pantanal and Pampa. Five proposals disbursed through the InterAmerican were approved over the course of Development Bank (IDB). the year, and are already underway at the following PAs: The Chapada The three biomes supported by GEF de Araripe Environmental Protection Terrestre are those least covered by Area in Ceará, Piauí and Pernambuco the National Protected Areas System (Caatinga); the Chapada Diamantina (SNUC, in Portuguese), created by National Park in Bahia (Caatinga); the Federal Law 9,985/2000. SNUC Sesc Pantanal Private Natural Heritage has the remit of creating a suite of Reserve in Mato Grosso (Pantanal); norms and procedures to enable the Ibirapuitã Environmental public authorities (municipal, state Protection Area in Rio Grande do Sul and federal) and private entities to (Pampa); the Espinilho State Park in set up and manage Protected Areas. Rio Grande do Sul (Pampa); and the Among the main goals, three come Ibirapuitã Biological Reserve in Rio to the fore: ensure the conservation Grande do Sul (Pampa).

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Amid the spectacular canyon-riven landscape that lines this folkloric river, immortalized in books and films, the São Francisco River Nat- ural Landmark (Alagoas, Sergipe, Bahia) is also suffering the effects of degradation and knowledge shortfalls about the local fauna. With the support of GEF Terrestre, work began on a diagnostic study and extinction risk assessment using camera traps. Among the wildlife clicked so far are the jag- uarundi, an endangered wild cat; the gray brocket; and crab-eating fox (photo).

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GEF TERRESTRE All told, the five subprojects selected restoration, and list environmental to be used in drafting the final by GEF Terrestre in 2020 will help restoration hotspots in urgent need of documents, which will help inform restore almost two thousand priority action. The PAs for which plans public-policymaking that provides hectares at PAs in six states Brazil- were drafted were: the Furna Feia incentives for environmental wide. If we factor in the areas National Park (Rio Grande do Norte); restoration in degraded areas. covered by the seven initiatives the Araripe Apodi National Forest approved through the two project (Ceará); the Rio São Francisco Natural 2020 also saw the project host calls launched in 2019, but only Landmark (Alagoas, Sergipe and ten training programs and exchange contracted and rolled out in 2020, Bahia); the Caminho dos Gerais State seminars, with over one hundred For people like us, environmentalists and directors of entities that have the figure comes to just under Park (Minas Gerais); the Chapada do participants in all. The idea been fighting so long to see public policies for environmental preservation six thousand hectares. Of the 12 Araripe Environmental Protection Area was to foster development through increased, the GEF Terrestre Project kick starts a new phase for the Caatinga. subprojects, three are located in (Ceará, Piauí and Pernambuco); and information and experience-sharing the Pampa grasslands, one in the the Ibirapuitã Environmental Protection on degraded-area restoration It opens a new perspective on how we can help preserve the biome’s Pantanal and eight in the scrublands Area (Rio Grande do Sul). processes. natural resources. The biodiversity of the Caatinga needed an initiative of the Caatinga. that could change this outlook on preservation, and that’s why we have no GEF Terrestre also held three virtual FUNBIO is financial executor of GEF “doubt that GEF Terrestre will play an important role in this regard.” Also in 2020, seven plans to workshops in 2020, organized by Terrestre, a partnership between restore degraded areas were drawn a consultancy hired by the project. the Chico Mendes Biodiversity JOAQUIM ARAÚJO DE MELO NETO, coordinator of the Furna Feia Project: up for PAs in the Caatinga and These online groups brought together Conservation Institute (ICMBio), Recovering Degraded Areas and Supporting Local Sustai-nability, executed by Pampa. The documents identify specialists on each biome in order the Botanical Garden of Rio de the Organização Sertaneja dos Amigos da Natureza (SOS SERTÃO the degraded areas in each PA, to draw up maps indicating priority Janeiro, and state organs engaged and the causes of the degradation, areas for restoration in the Caatinga, with environmental management. outline the directives and strategies Pantanal and Pampa. The workshops The Ministry for the Environment to be followed in carrying out the strove to set criteria and variables provides technical coordination.

GEF Terrestre and FUNBIO gave us an opportunity to fill the gaps in our knowledge NDC and highlight a priority agenda for Caatinga restoration. The projects approved will make it possible to generate pioneering models and take the first steps towards structuring a whole restoration production chain in an ecosystem where SDG the capacity and human resources required to work with the theme are still limited. In other words, this is perhaps the best opportunity Brazil’s semi-arid “scrubland has had to structure essential and strategic activities for the building of a lasting, permanent restoration agenda.”

SEVERINO RIBEIRO, Centro de Pesquisas do Nordeste – CEPAN, restoration projects — coordinator at the Chapada do Araripe Environmental Protection Area and Araripe- Apodi National Forest. Ibirapuitã EPA, Rio Grande do Sul. Photo: PORVIR DONATIONS UNIT ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 64

ATLANTIC The Atlantic Forest biome is a global The project’s actions are structured hotspot, one of the most biodiverse with four core goals (and endangered) areas on the planet. in mind: According to the Brazilian Ministry for the Environment, the Atlantic Forest 1) to establish territorial planning FOREST provides habitat for 20 thousand instruments; species of plant, 850 species of bird, 370 species of amphibian, 200 species 2) to develop economic studies for Biodiversity and Climate Change in the Atlantic Forest of reptile, 350 species of fish and 270 native land-cover restoration; species of mammal. It is also home to 120 million people, or 70% of 3) to improve infrastructure and the Brazilian population. However, devise key management tools this biome, which once covered 1.3 for Protected Areas whilst million km2, has whittled to a mere supporting measures to recover 12.4% of its original size, and only native vegetation; and 8.5% of that is under protection. 4) to facilitate the exchange of In response to this glum outlook, the information and experiences Biodiversity and Climate Change in between partners at municipal, the Atlantic Forest project aims to state and federal level, as well make a solid contribution towards as across civil society, so as to biodiversity conservation and native optimize the development and vegetation restoration in the Atlantic implementation of Atlantic Forest, with special emphasis on Forest conservation and regions in the Southernmost Bahia, recuperation initiatives. Central Rio State and Lagamar (São Paulo/ Paraná) mosaics, thus helping Also in 2020, the drafting of reduce and otherwise mitigate the Municipal Atlantic Forest Plans impacts of climate change. for the Central Rio and Lagamar mosaics reached completion, Created in 2015, the project is and their results will contribute part of the International Climate toward the planning of protection, Protection Initiative (IKI), with conservation, recuperation and assistance channeled through the sustainable-use actions in Atlantic Brazil/Germany Cooperation for Forest areas. Likewise last year, Sustainable Development agreement. strategic economic analyses of NDC FUNBIO manages the resources and the native-vegetation recovery is responsible for all contracts and production chain were completed, procurements recommended by the and a strategy was defined — Ministry, the executor of the plan to to increase the funding a SDG reverse environmental degradation in vailable for the restoration Lagamar Mosaic, the Atlantic Forest. of degraded areas. São Paulo/Paraná. Photos: Rodolfo Cabral/FUNBIO

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PROBIO II The Opportunities Fund of the Nation- or for silviculture (reforestation with al Public/Private Integrated Actions exotic species). The subproject strove for Biodiversity Project – Probio II is an to foster and value livestock farming Opportunities Fund of the National Public/Private Integrated initiative that rallies productive sectors on untouched Pampa by boosting its around the need to adopt conserva- productivity and profitability. Actions for Biodiversity Project tion and sustainable-use practices in their treatment of natural resources The project supported the adoption of in the Amazon, Atlantic Forest and a blended finance model that created | Pampa grassland biomes. Developed lines of credit for livestock farmers and managed by FUNBIO, the fund— through the Far South Regional Devel- Sharp-tailed tyrant in the Pampa. stocked with donations made by the opment Bank (BRDE), with the Oppor- Photo: SAVE Global Environment Facility (GEF) tunities Fund making complementary through the World Bank—is a financial investments in technical assistance to mechanism that attracts private-sector rural producers, administering training participation in pursuit of innovative so that they could obtain better results environmental conservation solutions. through the adoption of sustainable production practices. As of 2020, 11 Created in 2014, the fund was struc- producers had signed up for BRDE tured to ensure the continuity of the financing. work untaken by The National Public/ Private Integrated Actions for Biodi- One hundred and eighty rural proper- versity Project – Probio II. Since then, ties benefited by the project received the strategy has been to support eight Alianza del Pastizal certification, which initiatives, seven of which have already rewards farmers for supporting biodi- reached completion, with one still un- versity conservation by rearing grass- derway. The aim of the actions backed fed cattle. The entity’s seal attests to by the project is to prioritize biodiver- the origin and quality of the meat sity in areas of large-scale production produced, serving as a key indicator across multiple economic fronts, from for the consumer and stimulating com- ranching to farming, and extractivism petitiveness in the Brazilian market. to forest management. Another important complement sup- 2020 saw the completion of the plied by the Opportunities Fund was subproject "Biodiversity Conservation birdlife monitoring in the southern Allied with Livestock Farming in the grasslands. The tracking of biodiversi- Pampa Biome”, in Rio Grande do Sul. ty conservation was conducted using Implemented by SAVE Brasil in part- the Alliance’s Natural Grassland Con- nership with the Far South Regional servation Index (GCI). After two years Development Bank (BRDE) and Alianza of tracking on 40 certified properties del Pastizal (Southern Cone Grasslands totaling a combined 40 thousand hect- Alliance), the initiative sought to halt ares in 12 southern municipalities, 259 and reverse the conversion of native species of bird were recorded, 78 of grasslands into farmland, especially for which were native to the grasslands. grain monoculture (soya, for example) This total corresponds to 80% of the DONATIONS UNIT ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 66

PROBIO II grassland birds known to regularly rapitanga, Humanize and Arapyaú People’s Network are already re- occur in Brazil. These same areas also institutes. Complementing this financ- ceiving these benefits. The aim is to yielded sightings of 14 species of bird ing, the Opportunities Fund channels improve their cocoa bean processing considered endangered or near-extinct resources into buttressing sustain- structures and help form new cacau on a regional and/or global scale. able production, providing technical cabruca plantations. training incentives for the producers, | With FUNBIO’s support, a video was and facilitating the processing and At the Dois Riachões settlement, ac- Open cacao stand produced to crown the end of the ini- commercialization of smallholder and cess to a new line of credit will help at the Serra de tiative. The idea behind the film, which agroecologically-sound produce. increase the volume of high-quality Areia Settlement can be watched on the SAVE Brasil processed cocoa and the creation in Ibirapitanga, Bahia. Photo: YouTube channel, was to highlight One of the activities supported is the of new small plantations. The new Archive/Taboa the viability of sustainable production Rede Povos da Mata (Forest People’s stands will serve as part of a pi- practices aligned with environmental Network), which represents over 700 lot-project to determine, among conservation in the Pampas, especially registered producers that practice other variables, production costs and in a country like Brazil, where only 35% participative organic certification of ROI timeframes. These are important of these native grasslands remain. The forest yields and their derivatives. The technical data that might help in video presents the subproject’s results members include smallholder families, attracting new funding sources. and calls attention to the importance of farmers settled under agrarian reform monitoring endangered species. programs, and members of indigenous Regarding the installation of Agrofor- and quilombola communities (the estry Systems (AFSs), four areas were Also in 2020, the Opportunities Fund latter formed by the descendants selected at the Dois Riachões, Danda- maintained its support for the subproj- of former Maroon colonies). In ra, Terra de Santa Cruz and Demétrio ect "Reinforcing Agroecology—Trade 2020, Probio II activities centered on Costa settlements in Serra Grande. Routes”, executed by Tabôa Fortaleci- technical assistance for the production, The management of cacau cabruca NDC mento Comunitário (Tabôa Community processing and commercialization of production with the recommended Strengthening). The subproject was cacau cabruca, holding workshops, techniques will enable the recovery designed to foster the production and farm visits and field days—practical of degraded areas and improvement sale of Cacau cabruca cocoa (a tradi- activities in the form of organized of soil fertility, making production SDG tional mode of cocoa production in muck-ins to promote the importance more efficient and sustainable. which the trees are grown in the shade of adopting certain technologies of the Atlantic Forest understory) and and innovations at properties under Finally in 2020, technical monitoring the breeding of stingless bees in the agroecological management. began to ascertain and record the south of Bahia. The strategy includes presence of target bird species and the development of activities that will The subproject "Reinforcing Agro- of the golden-headed lion tamarin lead to the installation of Agroforestry ecology—Trade Routes” also supports (Leonpithecus crysomelas) in cacau Systems (AFSs) and the maintenance of lines of credit to smallholder families cabruca areas. These are indicator native forest cover in cabruca planta- through a blended finance model with species, and their numbers provide tions. The method is more sustainable Tabôa Fortalecimento Comunitário. a good measure of the conservation insofar as it does not require mechani- FUNBIO resources are used to buttress of local ecosystems. The first sur- zation and avoids the intensive use of the farmers’ management practices vey, conducted between March and capital and agrochemicals. and provide technical assistance to June, recorded 43 species of bird at boost output, especially for Agrofor- the Terra de Santa Cruz settlement The subproject receives financial estry Systems at cabruca sites. Four and 25 species at Dois Riachões. The backing from Porticus and the Ibi- settlements connected with the Forest monitoring will be repeated in 2021. — Honey production. Photo: Archive/ Taboa DONATIONS UNIT ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 67

AMAPÁ The aim of the Amapá Fund, a consists in financing projects partnership between FUNBIO, only from the yields on the the Gordon & Betty Moore invested seed funding. The Foundation, and Conservation mechanism allows funds to be International Brazil (CI-Brazil), raised from a range of sources, FUND with financial backing from such as donations, payments for CI’s Global Conservation Fund the provision of environmental (GCF), is to help maintain and services, and Consent Decrees. consolidate municipal, state- run and federal Protected Areas In 2020, FUNBIO, the GCF, CI- (PAs) and Indigenous Territories Brazil and the Amapá Department (ITs) in Amapá. Located in the for the Environment met to align northeast, Amapá is considered the fund’s goals and strategies, the best-preserved of all Brazilian focusing on growable production states, with a good portion of its chains and the identification land area—representative of the of new investments in the Amazonian biome—under some bioeconomy and opportunities to form of protection. reinforce the existing PAs. Amapá is a state with a huge vocation for Launched in 2015, the Amapá activities that explore the potential Fund envisages the long-term of preserved forests, and currently viability and sustainability of stands out nationwide for its the state’s PAs and ITs. Toward production and sale of açaí and this end, it was set up as an chestnut, as well as its booming endowment fund, a model that fisheries.

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ABROLHOS LAND Stretching over 89 million hectares in 1983—the first of its kind in of marine and coastal ecosystems Brazil—, and the Descobrimento between the south of Bahia and National Park, founded in 1999, northern Espírito Santo, the the year before Brazil celebrated its Abrolhos Land and Sea Territory 500th anniversary. In order to kick AND SEA FUND houses the greatest biodiversity off the planned activities, the first in the South Atlantic. To support redemption was drawn from the the execution of environmental ALSF in October, and disbursed to protection actions there, FUNBIO CI-Brazil. joined forces with Conservation International Brazil to help Also in 2020, the Abrolhos Land create, consolidate, maintain and and Sea Fund Managing Board institutionally strengthen federal was structured, and its Project Protected Areas (PAs). This union Operational Manual (POM) led to the inauguration of the approved at the first session. — Abrolhos Land and Sea Fund (ALSF). The POM sets out the rules for Group of white- the fund’s scope, remit, and lipped peccaries Designed in 2016, the fund, which target public. at Descobrimento National Park is under public/private governance, (PND), Bahia. received seed funding from Some of the funding will be used Photo: Archive/ PND Conservation International’s Global to draw up architectural plans for Conservation Fund (GCF). FUNBIO the renovation and expansion of is responsible for the financial and the national parks’ headquarters executive management of the ALSF, on the southern Bahia coast. The with CI-Brazil providing technical fund is also preparing to launch a support. Given the nature of its call for proposals for the provision goals, the fund is a long-term of consulting services to assess the financial mechanism operating in potential for sustainable tourism — perpetuity, with project funding in the Abrolhos Land and Sea drawn exclusively from the yields on Territory. The intention is to identify West Indian the GCF’s initially donated principal. community-based activities already lantana (Lantana underway in the region that could Camara) found at SDG the PND. Photo: In 2020, the fund developed be reinforced or multiplied. The Thainá Goldman support actions for the structuring two actions are part of the drive of two federal PAs: the Abrolhos to consolidate the public use of National Marine Park, created these PAs.

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GEF MAR The Marine and Coastal Protected on infrastructure renovation at Areas Project (GEF Mar) has cemented the Baleia Franca Environmental its status as one of the most successful Protection Area, in Santa Catarina, Marine and Coastal Protected Areas Project biodiversity conservation initiatives and the Costa dos Corais EPAs, in in Brazil. Over the last six years, the Alagoas and Pernambuco. project has reached some important milestones, with 95.1 million hectares GEF-Mar also overhauled of marine and coastal biome receiving the Soloncy Moura research | — support (the initial target was 17.5 ship, operated by the South/ million ha) across 30 PAs, of which Southeastern National Center for Natural Against covid-19, swimming pools a representative 23 are federal and 7, state-run. The Marine Research and Biodiversity at Japaratinga, of the Lagoa do project’s reach now extends to 26% Conservation (CEPSUL). CEPSUL Costa dos Corais Jequiá Marine of the country’s entire marine and monitors biodiversity in the marine Environmental Extractive Reserve, Protection Area, in Alagoas, coastal surface, an area roughly biome along the entre south/ Pernambuco/ receives sanitation equivalent to France, Portugal and southeastern coastline. Alagoas. Archive: kits to distribute ICMBio to the community Britain combined. Seven research centers and four community projects Throughout 2020, emergency are also covered by GEF Mar. measures and strategic actions were planned and carried out to tackle GEF Mar is co-developed by the two unexpected events that had Ministry for the Environment, ICMBio an enormous impact on project- and FUNBIO, and it is financed by backed PAs and local community the Global Environment Facility (GEF) agents: a crude-oil spill off the through the World Bank. In 2019, it Northeastern coast, late in 2019, also began to receive funding under and the covid-19 pandemic, in a consent decree signed between March 2020. The project scrambled IBAMA and Petrobras as part of the R$ 2.6 million to assist the PAs. oil company’s environmental offset measures whilst undertaking to comply Roughly R$ 2.3 million was also with wastewater disposal legislation channeled into essential support on its offshore platforms. Once again, actions for the areas affected by the FUNBIO is responsible for financially environmental disaster, especially managing these funds. those communities that had to temporarily suspend their economic In 2020, GEF Mar had to adapt to activities. A further R$370 thousand SDG the new conditions imposed by was distributed among 19 Protected covid-19, but managed to keep its PA Areas so they could tackle the support activities going all the same. impacts of the new coronavirus. The Assistance was provided in drafting measures taken included purchasing executive projects for renovation and PPEs, distributing basic needs construction work at two TAMAR hampers and providing incentives Project bases, one in Regência and for local income generation, such the other in Guriri, both in Espírito as by hiring seamstresses to make Santo. The initiative also collaborated face masks.

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SEA A technical/scientific cooperation to marine-environment preservation, agreement between public authorities, revealed that somewhere between private initiatives, civil society and 4.8 and 12.7 million tons of untreated academia took an important step in plastic waste reach the world’s oceans defining strategies to tackle the marine each year. The group’s findings also GARBAGE debris problem in São Paulo State. show that plastics are the single The action, which is backed by the highest pollutant affecting our seas Norwegian Embassy in Brazil, pooled and pose a very grave threat to all the efforts of scientists, specialists and marine life. IN SP public managers to devise and execute the project “Building knowledge to In order to carry the project forward, combat marine litter in São Paulo FUNBIO launched a public call for Sea Garbage Monitoring and Assessment Plan, State: marine litter monitoring and consultancy and supported the São Paulo assessment plan in São Paulo". organization of two workshops: the first held in 2019, and the second in The drive is a partnership between September 2020. The participants FUNBIO, the Norwegian Embassy, the in these workshops, engaged in a University of São Paulo’s Advanced collective learning process, sought to Studies (IEA) and Oceanographic share information and experiences, (IOUSP) Institutes, and the as well as distinct technical visions, in Environmental and Infrastructure order to help design and foster actions Department of São Paulo. Launched to tackle marine debris. Also discussed in August 2019, the initiative was were the impacts sea litter has on designed to create a Strategic Plan fishing, tourism and food security. for Monitoring and Evaluating Marine Debris in the State of São Paulo and The project represents the various to create a communication network sectors and stakeholders engaged integrating all stakeholders on the with the theme, thus nurturing a sides of science and management. participative method of development. With the plan’s completion and Data organized by the Joint Group of publication in January 2021, the Experts in Scientific Aspects of Marine hope is that the document can effect Pollution (GESAMP), the advisory body real change. Having marine debris to the UN on all matters pertaining properly monitored and measured

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SEA will be an effective instrument in integration of results into different pressing to see ocean waste treated public environmental planning in as technical and correct a manner and conservation policies; and a as possible, and so help clean up the push toward achieving the UN’s marine environment along São Paulo’s Sustainable Development Goals GARBAGE coastline. (SDGs), especially SDG 14, “Conserve and Sustainably Use the Oceans, Seas Among the benefits for science and and Marine Resources”. society are: reduced uncertainty IN SP concerning the real impact of The Strategic Plan for Monitoring marine debris; more and better and Evaluating Marine Debris is also data comparison and sharing; considered an important contribution encouragement for inter-sector toward the creation of a future state- cooperation; dissemination of best wide plan for tackling marine debris | practices; contributions towards the in São Paulo. Among trash and cigarette butts on a beach in São Vicente, São Paulo. Photos: GerminAção

The Strategic Plan for the Evaluation and Monitoring of Marine Debris was the result of a rich and successful process of collaborative construction involving various stakeholders made possible by the multi-institutional partnership between the UNESCO Chair for Ocean Sustainability, the São Paulo State Department for Infrastructure and the Environment, FUNBIO “and the Norwegian Embassy. Its results were integrated into the São Paulo State Plan for Solid Waste and concretized as long-term goals. Testifying to its relevance as a strategy for building knowledge networks to tackle the problem of marine debris, the project’s actions and products are highly replicable and aligned with the Global Partnership for Marine Litter (GPML), part of the United Nations Environment Program; the

UN 2030 Agenda's Sustainable Development Goal 14 (“Life SDG Below Water”); and the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development Implementation Plan.”

ALEXANDER TURRA coordinator of the São Paulo State Strategic Plan for the Evaluation and Monitoring of Marine Debris, University of São Paulo Oceanographic Institute ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 72 LEGAL OBLIGATIONS Unit

73 FRANCISCANA CONSERVATION 76 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION 78 MARINE AND FISHERIES RESEARCH 81 SUPPORT TO PAs 82 WINDOWS ONTO THE RESTINGA DE BERTIOGA STATE PARK 83 GREEN AGAIN 84 TCSA PORTO SUL LEGAL OBLIGATIONS UNIT ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 73

FRANCISCANA The Franciscana Conservation project an expedition of scientists from the is the largest scientific effort yet State University of Rio de Janeiro mustered to protect Brazil’s most (UERJ), and it filled researchers with endangered dolphin species. Since hope, as there had been rumors of | 2015, the project has fostered the species’ existence in the region CONSERVATION and promoted the production and since a franciscana skull turned up Breakthrough propagation of technical knowledge there some twenty years ago. The photos prove about the franciscana (Pontoporia suspicions had since been fueled by Conservation in Franciscana Management Area I the existence of franciscana blainvillei), and the results obtained fleeting appearances here or there, dolphins near so far may one day contribute but nothing caught on camera. Paraty, Rio de Janeiro. Photo: towards the implementation of Maqua/Uerj public conservation policies in The sighting occurred on November support of this incredibly rare 24, when biologists from the UERJ species, which is only seen Aquatic Mammals and Bioindicators nationally at a handful of points Laboratory (Maqua), one of the between Espírito Santo and Rio institutions supported by the Grande do Sul. The franciscana Franciscana Conservation project, is exclusive to the coast of Brazil, were out surveying the area after Uruguay and Argentina. a long period of inactivity. The franciscana task force, set up at A shy mammal about which little the beginning of the year, had is known, the franciscana dolphin suspended its activities due to the is the subject of six lines of study, covid-19 pandemic. With the support pursued simultaneously, as part of of local fishermen, and armed with the Franciscana Conservation Project. subaquatic microphones and drones, The research institutes involved the researchers were finally able to have been working to achieve a resume their search. greater knowledge on such themes as the species’ biology and genetics, The encounter was filmed by a team distribution along the country’s that managed the rare feat of getting coastline, population dynamic and close to the pod in a boat. Drone main causes of death. The project footage was obtained a few days is seen as a unique opportunity to later, which was very important, as learn about the franciscana through the specialists needed to confirm that information gathering and exchange. the animals in question were not just passing through or part of another In November 2020, the project pod, also identified in 2019, known made an important discovery on to reside in Ubatuba, on the São the southern Rio de Janeiro coast. Paulo coast. For the first time ever, a pod of franciscana—often referred to as In fact, monitoring continued on the “invisible" or “ghost” dolphin— the Ubatuba franciscana throughout was seen in Ilha Grande Bay, near last year, carried out by the Rio Paraty. The sighting was made by Grande do Sul Aquatic Mammals LEGAL OBLIGATIONS UNIT ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 74

FRANCISCANA Study Group—GEMARS, another Santa Catarina and Paraná. At these institution supported by the gatherings, the technicians tried to Franciscana Conservation Project. understand the work craft fishermen Four expeditions were launched had done throughout the year, the during the year, with helicopters kind of fishing they employed, and CONSERVATION used to track the pod. In both Paraty their own perceptions of how the and Ubatuba, researchers noted conservation project was developing. the presence of adults and calves, yielding footage of some previously With GEMARS support, the MarBrasil unrecorded parent-offspring Association also organized fly-overs interaction. The specialists will to spot-count franciscana from the now concentrate on analyzing the air. The idea was to raise a sample data obtained in order to propose from which they could estimate the new studies to better understand number of franciscana living along DANIEL DANILEWICZ franciscana behavior. the São Paulo, Santa Catarina and from GEMARS, has been studying the Paraná coast. Given their small size, franciscana dolphin since 1992, but saw his first Also in 2020, GEMARS and the franciscana dolphins are frequent living specimen only 12 years later Associação MarBrasil continued accidental by-catch. They are also their research on franciscana highly susceptible to pollution “In fact, I never thought, not even in my mortality in São Paulo, Paraná, and dips in prey numbers, not wildest dreams, that I would one day Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do to mention loss of habitat caused get to film a franciscana live in the wild. Sul. The studies use drifters specially by environmental degradation. Nursing a calf is something we saw for designed to simulate the behavior the first time just now. It’s such a joy. of floating animal carcasses to Still in 2020, an online campaign Really something that has to be shown.” ascertain how sea currents influence was launched to mark National their dispersion. They also use Franciscana Day, created in 2019. prototypes, which are dummies The date—October 1—coincides Video that simulate franciscana carcasses, with the birthing period of and help researchers estimate the franciscana calves, and it was WATCH “FRANCISCANAS IN UBATUBA: species’ mortality rates based on celebrated with a range of actions NEW HORIZONS” the percentage of the prototypes by programs backed by the project. that actually wash ashore. The activities and research JOSÉ LAILSON BRITO JÚNIOR Despite the adversities imposed by carried out under the Franciscana from Maqua/Uerj, has been studying covid-19, the project also managed Conservation project’s remit service franciscana since 1997 to keep up its fisheries monitoring the goals set forth in the National activities in franciscana habitat Action Plan for the Franciscana. The “Discovering a population of an endan- throughout 2020 in order to concerted effort to make scientific gered species that has characteristics obtain more information about the study on the species viable is an of its own gives us hope that we can species’ contact with fishermen. In important part of ensuring its future succeed in keeping the franciscana alive November, the MarBrasil Association conservation. There are thought and well in the waters of Brazil and held meetings to present the to be fewer than 20 thousand South America”. preliminary results to the fishermen franciscana dolphins in Brazil today, at coastal communities in São Paulo, and the specialists believe that the

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FRANCISCANA pods found in Rio de Janeiro and it gave rise to the homonymous river Espírito Santo remain isolated from dolphin (Inia geoffrensis), while a other populations known to inhabit splinter group travelled south to the the nation’s southern coasts, a Plata River Basin, and spread from situation aggravated by the fact that there into the Atlantic, resulting CONSERVATION franciscana numbers tend to dwindle in the franciscana (Pontoporia the further north you go. blainvillei).

Much of the scientific interest in the The Franciscana Conservation franciscana is owing to its history, project project is an offset measure as it derives from a dolphin species established under a consent decree that migrated to South America from agreed between the company the Caribbean somewhere between PetroRio and the Federal Public 13 and 18 million years ago. This Prosecutors’ Office in Rio de Janeiro. Volume-up | species settled in the Amazon, where It is implemented by FUNBIO. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST Franciscana dolphin in Ubatuba. Photo: Helena Wolfenson

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The nation’s most mysterious and least The podcast tells the story of a journalist known dolphin is now much easier to who is investigating the deaths of 33 dol- locate. However hard it might be to phins off the coast of Ubatuba, São Paulo. find the franciscana in the wild, just a Initially uninterested in environmental few clicks is all it takes to track it down issues, the character, played by the actress online. To help conserve the species, a Camila Márdila, gradually changes her recently-launched initiative aims to boost outlook as she learns more about the dan- this diminutive dolphin’s popularity, gers the species faces. In the process, she and one way found to achieve that goal plies the listener with valuable information was to make it the star of a podcast. about the franciscana and its incredible Hence “Franciscana: the extinction of the history. The actress Alice Braga voiced the invisible dolphin”, Brazil’s first fictional introduction. environmental profile. In addition to the podcast, the francis- Since its debut on October 30, the program cana also has an account on Instagram (@ has chalked up some expressive results and toninha_pontoporia), a communication already ranks in the top-50 fiction podcasts channel that is very popular with the on Spotify. This innovative podcast uses a younger public, and so helps rally a wider fictional story to promote environmental demographic behind the species’ defense. awareness about the species, the nation’s Another important communication front SDG most threatened dolphin. At the end of is the e-zine Linhas do Mar (Lines of the each of the seven episodes, interviews with Sea), which ran four issues last year (Janu- scientists and specialists talk the listener ary, April, July and November), presenting through the franciscana’s characteristics information about the Franciscana Conser- and lay out the reasons why this species has vation Project. The newsletter is sent out to to be saved and protected. all the initiatives supported by the project. LEGAL OBLIGATIONS UNIT ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 76

ENVIRONMENTAL The Environmental Education project and revise its targets regarding the was created to become a key ally in communities and fishermen and biodiversity conservation in Brazil’s women it supports. FUNBIO launched marine and coastal zones, as well an emergency call for projects for the as in the sustainable use of fisheries execution of activities that could help EDUCATION resources and the strengthening mitigate the impacts of the restrictions of craft fishing. Its initiatives are all imposed to stem the spread of the | designed toward one end: to ensure new coronavirus. Implementing Environmental Education and Income-generation Projects Project uses the activity’s environmental, social for Improved Environmental Quality at Fishing Communities in the State discarded fishing and economic sustainability in Rio de After selection and approval, proposals nets to create Janeiro. In order to reach these targets, were accepted for nine initiatives of Rio de Janeiro street-market bags. Photo: the project will run socioeconomic receiving combined investment of R$ Beatriz Mattiuzzo/ diagnostics and devise lines of action 950 thousand. Most of the funding Marulho that further community strengthening, requests FUNBIO received focused environmental education and income on income-generation and support generation in the state. for local craft fishing institutions. The activities will be rolled out in In 2020, due to the adverse conditions four regions: Costa Verde, Baía de posed by the covid-19 pandemic, Guanabra, the Lake District and the the project had to alter its planning north of Rio state.

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ENVIRONMENTAL The sub-projects receiving support in- The planned activities include clude the structuring and strengthening the administering of courses in of a cooperative for the shellfisherwo- project management, sanitary men of Prainha (MUPAAP-Marisqueiras procedures and techniques in da Prainha), in the Lake District; actions the handling of fish hauls, and EDUCATION to bolster the institutional self-manage- the piloting of vessels engaged ment of the Association of Crab Fishers in tourism activities. The project and Friends of the Magé Mangroves will also support the purchase in Baía de Guanabara; and steps to of fish processing and storage improve the attendance provided to equipment, the maintenance of members of the Z-27 Fishing Colony on mussel-processing machinery and the Northern Rio coast. the construction of a traditional coastal-community market that will To boost income-generation, five help generate higher revenues by sub-projects will benefit the Boatmen providing improved conditions for and Craft Fishermen’s Association the sale of fisheries resources. of Trindade, in Paraty; the Jurujuba Free Association of Marine Farmers, All of these initiatives, scheduled for in Niterói; the Boto Cinza Institute, in this year, will be evaluated during Mangaratiba; the Institute for Marine execution to see if they qualify for Research, Architecture and Renewable continuity and additional funding Resources (IPEMAR), in Angra dos through future project calls. Reis; and the Cooperative of Craft Fisherwomen and Native Plant The Environmental Education Producers in the Lake District. With a project project is an offset focus on mental health, also selected measure established under a was the sub-project submitted by consent decree agreed between the the Association of Residents and company PetroRio and the Federal Friends of Aventureiro Beach, which Public Prosecutors’ Office in Rio supports the Caiçara Surf School de Janeiro. It is implemented there, on Ilha Grande. by FUNBIO.

| From the Cooperative, Conceição Julião SDG (left) and Flora Franco (right) fishing in Arraial The Technical Working Groups formed with the other stakeholders, all of do Cabo, RJ. Photo: Zenilda recognized expertise in given thematic areas, have afforded a more diverse Maria da Silva/ approach in project calls and selection and yielded decisions that aim for Mulheres Nativas inclusiveness in terms of the public benefited by the Consent Decree’s actions.”

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MARINE The aim of the project “Support for and the monitoring of fishing boat Marine and Fisheries Research in Rio de unloading at port. Janeiro”, created in 2015, is to provide incentives for scientific research with a In 2020, ten subprojects wrapped view to fostering knowledge-building up their technical activities. Some AND FISHERIES for the development of fisheries and of these initiatives helped publicize the marine ecosystem, thus supporting the results, while others carried out the sustainable use of natural resources data analyses and drafted reports. in Brazil’s second-largest producer of In the case of the Skipjack Project, RESEARCH fish stocks. Over the last five years, which studied the ecology and the project has helped generate and socioeconomic aspects of skipjack propagate technical information tuna fishing, a closing seminar was Support for Marine and Fisheries Research in the State about the sector and the marine held with specialists and authorities. of Rio de Janeiro Project environment, with special focus on The event coincided with the launch commercial fish species, such as the of the book “Sustentabilidade da Brazilian sardine and skipjack tuna. Pesca do Bonito-listrado no Brasil” (“The Sustainability of Skipjack Fishing From the outset, the project has in Brazil”), which presented the three supported 16 initiatives that spurred years’ worth of information gathered the collection of data on a range of about the country’s second most widely- themes: research on the ecology, fished species. Just shy of 23 thousand biology, distribution and numbers tons of skipjack tuna are fished in Brazil of endangered fish species or every year, according to an International commercially relevant catch; economic Commission for the Conservation of aspects of fisheries and the nutritional Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) report. value of fish; coral reef ecosystems and rocky shores; invasive marine species; The study also endeavored to assess women’s participation in craft fishing; the amount of edible protein ener- the social impacts of oil and gas gy provided by different animals and exploration on fishing communities; compare that value against the to- relationship with the consumer; tal industrial energy consumed in its

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MARINE production/acquisition. Factoring in The Eco-Nutrition subproject, executed socioeconomic perspectives as well, by the Federal University of Rio de the intention was to underscore the Janeiro (UFRJ), undertook to identify varying environmental impacts of and measure the nutritional potential different food production activities. of bycatch currently discarded or AND FISHERIES These results gave rise to a Nutritio- underused due to their low commercial nal, Environmental, Social and Econo- value. The idea is to create niches for mic Index, with tuna (55.8% return these species on the consumer market, on input) performing far better than and so avoid environmental unbalance RESEARCH swine (43.4%) and chicken (39.8%). by relieving some of the pressure on the more heavily targeted species. The Monitoring of Fisheries Activities The subproject analyzed the following in Northern Rio State (PMAP, in frequent bycatch: the Brazilian Portuguese) presented industrial and menhaden (Brevoortia aurea), guri sea craft fishing statistics for 15 of Rio’s catfish (Genidens genidens), swordfish municipalities, as well as collated (Trichiurus lepturus), Atlantic anchoveta data on the socioeconomic profile of (Cetengraulis edentulus) and malacho the fishermen and women involved, (Elops smithi). The work will result in the types of vessel used and the recommendations for the better use of support infrastructure in place. the species demonstrating the highest nutritional potential. Coordinated by PUC-RJ, the Petrosardine subproject sought to Finally, following the strategy adopted assess Brazilian sardine exposure by the Maréss Interdisciplinary to petroleum contamination and Laboratory, located on the São to analyze how safe the species is Lourenço do Sul campus of the Federal Video for human consumption. Of the University of Rio Grande (UFRG), the sample collected only 4% presented subproject Impact on Fisheries turned SEE “IMPACT ON FISHERIES” contaminant concentrations above to video and documentary-making as a the maximum levels permitted by means of presenting its results directly Brazilian legislation. to society. The audiovisual material,

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MARINE which is available on YouTube, and providing appropriate storage deals with two of the project’s core conditions for scientific collections. themes: how oil and gas exploration/ production and tourism affect craft In a bid to bring scientific research fishing populations (the documentary: closer to society, the project went AND FISHERIES “Impacts on fisheries: the project online with some of its history, in documentary”) and the issues results, and demonstrations of the faced specifically by fisherwomen (the dedication of the researchers and documentary “I, the fisherwoman”). technicians on the 16 initiatives it RESEARCH supports. The videos are available Also in 2020, the Support for Marine on FunbioTube, the fund’s YouTube and Fisheries Research Project saw channel. The material offers a the inauguration of a new Integrated summary of the work carried out by Marine Biology Laboratory (LIBMAR), the subprojects as well as interviews run by the Macaé Center for with their coordinators. Ecology and Socio-environmental Development. The initiative was The Support for Marine and supported by the subprojects Fisheries Research in Rio de Janeiro Multifisheries and Rocky Shores of project project is an offset measure Northern Rio State. Among the new established under a consent decree research center’s goals are: fine-tuning agreed between the company biodiversity studies; fostering the PetroRio and the Federal Public formation of new scientists; promoting Prosecutors’ Office in Rio de Janeiro. environmental education actions; It is implemented by FUNBIO. NEW RULES FOR BRAZILIAN SARDINE FISHING |

Marine research In 2020, the Support for breeding period now arrives Livestock and Supply. Under vessel. Photo: Marine and Fisheries Research earlier and lasts longer. Up the new legislation, closed Luciano Fischer/ Project reaped the rewards until the 1990s, reproduction season will extend from Laboratório de Tecnologia of its adoption of scientific occurred during a three- October 1 to February 28, Pesqueira e data as a way of informing month period, but this has and will be monitored and Hidroacústica public fisheries policy: new now been extended to six. reassessed at the end of (IO-FURG) rules were established for the the first semester of 2021. closed season on Brazilian The new closed season on The intention is to analyze sardine fishing along the the Brazilian sardine will biological and fisheries- Southeastern and Southern last for the same five-month related aspects of the coasts. After 15 years, closed duration, but without any Brazilian sardine, as well as season will no longer occur intervals. According to Univali, the economic effects the new in two periods (winter and backed by the Support for period has on the activity SDG summer), but will concentrate Marine and Fisheries Research and its production chain. on the warmest months of the Project, this respite is key to The Brazilian sardine is the year, thus covering the species’ stock replenishment. Univali country’s premier catch. entire reproductive cycle. was directly involved in the In Santa Catarina, where technical discussions that most sardine canneries are Climate changes, such as rising resulted in the change located, the species is directly sea temperatures, have caused of dates. responsible for generating some alterations in Brazilian 20 thousand jobs. Combined, sardine behavior. Research The measure was passed into the state’s companies supply carried out by the Vale do law in Norm nº 18 issued on approximately a million tins Itajaí University (Univali) June 12 by the Department of sardine to points of sale found that the species’ for Agriculture, Fisheries, per day. LEGAL OBLIGATIONS UNIT ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 81

SUPPORT TO PAs The project “Conservation and creation of a trail and stilted walkway Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in the mangroves of the Guapimirim at Coastal and Estuarine Federal Environmental Protection Area and Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in Federal Coastal Protected Areas in the States of Rio the Guanabara Ecological Station, de Janeiro and São Paulo (Support both in Rio de Janeiro. These PAs and Estuarine Protected Areas in the States of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to PAs)” pursues two main goals: to are powered by a more sustainable, collaborate toward a more qualified solar-based energy system. Also in management of environmental planning phase at the Guapimirim protection areas; and to support APA is the construction of a multi-use improved physical structuring so as center for visitors. Work is expected to heighten performance in marine to get underway in 2021. and coastal ecosystem conservation and the sustainable use of fisheries At the Serra da Bocaina National resources. Park, on the Rio/São Paulo border, plans are in place for a visitors center Created in 2016, the project has at Trindade, whilst at the Tamoios rolled out support actions at nine PAs Ecological Station, located between covering a combined 260 thousand Paraty and Angra dos Reis, a new hectares, roughly equivalent to the vessel is being built to help with cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro marine-environment monitoring put together. The activities are around the Bay Islands and Ilha designed to help draft management Grande. Delivery is expected in 2021. — plans, boost organizational Signage is strengthening, provide capacitation The Support to PAs project is an installed on for craft fishermen and women, instal offset measure established under an island in the Cagarras PA signage and introduce measures to a consent decree agreed between Archipelago, improve the PAs’ visitation structure. the company PetroRio and the Rio de Janeiro, warning against Federal Public Prosecutors’ Office illegal practices in In 2020, the initiative made progress in Rio de Janeiro. It is implemented the region. Photo: on the executive project for the by FUNBIO. MONA Cagarras Archive/Tatiana Ribeiro — NDC

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WINDOWS The core aim of the Windows onto Created in 2010, the state park, which The project will be structured with the Restinga de Bertioga State Park occupies over nine thousand hectares, the active participation of the project is to support sustainable encompasses 98% of the remaining communities in the park’s immediate alternatives that improve quality of restinga (broadleaf (sub)tropical forest vicinity: Vila da Mata, Environs of life and boost income-generation for growing in sandy, coastal soils) in the the Guaratuba River (Carvalho Pinto ONTO THE the communities living in the environs Santos Lowlands. The PA houses 37 and Barreira do Itaguá clusters) and of the Protected Area (PA), located species of flora that feature on one or the Balneário Mogiano homesteads. in Bertioga, on the northern coast more endangered species list, whether of São Paulo. The strategy follows as vulnerable, endangered or critically In 2020, a selection process began RESTINGA directives outlined in the management endangered. Perhaps chief amongst to hire a consulting firm to develop plan drafted by the PA’s managers and these are Mollinedia cf. oligotricha the planned activities. Fifteen published in December 2018. and Piper hoehnei, both of which are workshops, five in each community, probably already extinct in the wild, will be held to train locals and DE BERTIOGA but are still found at the PA. to devise action plans to suit the interests of each area. Priorities The Bertioga State Park is also home will also be set by the participants to 516 species of vertebrate, including during the workshops. 23 freshwater fish, 41 amphibians, STATE PARK 40 mammals, 53 reptiles and 353 Lastly in 2020, the project rolled birds, 49 of which are considered out support actions for the Bertioga endangered. There are also eight PA. Equipment was purchased to endangered mammals, such as improve infrastructure and park the brown howler monkey (Alouatta management, including computers, guariba), ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), GPS devices, a drone, cameras, cougar (Puma concolor), and South- signage, uniforms for the agents, American tapir (Tapirus terrestres). a brushcutter and chain saw, and a 38 bird species are in a similar bind, towboat to be delivered in 2021. as are two species of fish and one reptile, the striped restinga skink Designed in December 2019, (Mabuya caissara). the initiative is expected to run through to January 2022. The The strategy determines two lines project is executed in partnership of action for the project: collaborate with the Foundation for Forest NDC to strengthen the park’s public Conservation and Production in São management, and promote Paulo State (Fundação Florestal), economic activities aligned with its and is financed through a Consent core objectives. With these ends Decree negotiated between the SDG in mind, the idea is to encourage real-estate developer Figueiredo community-based tourism, the Empreendimentos Imobiliários Ltda. keeping of stingless bees, and and the Federal Public Prosecutors’ production and processing of Office. FUNBIO is the financial and non-timber forest resources. operational manager. —

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GREEN AGAIN Known as Steel City, Volta Redonda Amazon Rainforest and Atlantic became much greener in 2020. As of Forest. Each area contains only November 14, the largest municipality native species, 300 in all, while Nature Conservation Program in Volta Redonda in Southern Rio de Janeiro State the Garden’s lake is stocked with has a Botanical Garden to call its Amazonian aquatic plants. The leisure own—the Antonieta Barreira Cravo area boasts a walking track, bicycle Municipal Botanical Garden. The space track, kiddies’ park, open-air gym, blends leisure with environmental barbecue stations and interactive conservation on São João Island, floor with water spouts. which also benefited from some forest restoration work that replaced exotic Green Again had the added goal of species with native Atlantic Forest expanding Volta Redonda’s native trees at a five-hectare Permanent land cover, and carried out actions Preservation Area on the banks of the to arborize over 100 km of public Paraíba do Sul River. thoroughfares and streets, and reforest the Ilha de São João The inauguration of the Botanical Permanent Protection Area. To Garden meets one of the goals achieve this, 15 thousand saplings set by the Volta Redonda Nature of 80 native species were acquired, Conservation Program—Green as well as all the necessary agricultural Again. The program is a Municipal materials and equipment to carry out Department for the Environment the work (GPS devices, computers, a initiative financed by an Environmental truck and digger). Consent Decree signed between the Federal and State Public Begun in 2018, the program received Prosecutors’ Offices, Volta R$ 5.4 million in funding and its Redonda City Hall and FUNBIO. initial goals were all reached in 2020. The interest on the initial investment The Botanical Garden is divided into has been earmarked for one further sectors corresponding to the nation’s deliverable: fencing off the Botanical various biomes, such as the Cerrado Garden, a job that is expected to reach Savanna, Caatinga Scrublands, completion in 2021.

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TCSA The TCSA Porto Sul project was BAMIN port-zone construction designed to ensure sustainable project in the Aritaguá district development, protect environmental 14km north of Ilhéus, Bahia. integrity, and preserve ecological The initiative has outlined functioning and the provision of seven goals: Territorial Planning; PORTO SUL ecosystemic services in the area Environmental Monitoring and affected by the Port and Port Control; Integrated Environmental | Services Complex in South Bahia. Assessment; Improved Project will The project was created through a Surveillance; Consolidation/ cater to areas in Socioenvironmental Consent Decree Structuring of Protected Areas; Southern Bahia state. Photo: (TCSA in Portuguese) signed in Roll-out of Supplementary Offset Ariane Cerqueira 2019 between the Federal Public and Compensation Measures Prosecutors’ Office, the Prosecutors’ for Flora and Fauna; and Office of the State of Bahia and the Strengthening of Environmental State Government of Bahia—through Governance. its Department for the Environment (SEMA-BA) and Office of the Chief In June 2020, FUNBIO signed of Staff—, the Institute for the a cooperation agreement to Environment and Water Resources operationally and financially (INEMA), Ilhéus City Hall, and BAMIN manage the project. The (Bahia Mining Inc.) agreement provides for the execution of actions connected to The Socioenvironmental Consent the Porto Sul Socio-environmental Decree Porto Sul is an environmental Consent Decree to the tune of offset package undertaken by the R$ 45 million by June 2026.

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SUZANO In a bid to attenuate the impacts of The selectees included 84 civil covid-19, the company Suzano, in society organizations, 28 individual conjunction with FUNBIO, structured micro-enterprises, 3 cooperatives Emergency call support an emergency support strategy to and 6 companies. In addition to assist the communities living near its the diversity of the proponents, facilities in the states of Bahia, Espírito the initiative managed to draw Santo, Maranhão, Minas Gerais and submissions from 67 of the 71 Pará, where it develops bio-products localities covered by the call. In all, from planted eucalyptus.With FUNBIO 41 of the selected projects came providing technical guidance, a call from Bahia, 29 from Espírito Santo, for projects was launched to reduce 34 from Maranhão, 5 from Minas the impact caused by social isolation, Gerais and 12 from Pará. with a focus on two main fronts: developing actions to prevent and With regard to combatting the combat the new coronavirus; and pandemic, the supported actions fostering income-generation initiatives distributed PPEs, produced in urban and rural areas. foodstuffs in vegetable plots and free range farms, purchased Throughout 2020, 469 proposals food for health posts and helped were analyzed, of which 121 were transport patients seeking care. In approved: 63 on the combat front and order to generate income, small 58 geared towards income-generation. enterprises received cash injections 68 of these projects were centered on to tide them over during this period urban areas and 53, rural. The selected of vastly decreased sales. Support — projects, all of which had the capacity was also provided to those who to respond rapidly to the effects of the were just going into business when Residents gather for an activity pandemic, received donations of up to the pandemic hit, or needed to in Iguaí, Bahia. R$5 thousand. The whole process was innovate to attract new customers Photo: Promotion/ conducted online, as per the protocols and clients by moving their Suzano recommended by the health authorities. operations online.

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PROJECT K Project K wound up its activities in programmed instalment and the 2019 and was formally concluded in disbursement originally earmarked 2020. The final technical report was for the external assessment will be Knowledge for Action drawn up and sent to Fonds Français rerouted in 2020 into showcasing pour l’Environmental Mondial (FFEM) Project K’s results at international and the MAVA Foundation, the events in a bid to support RedLAC in project’s donors in conjunction its new projects. The GEF will draw with the GEF. upon the FFEM evaluation. In 2020, the tour of international events was The external consultancy firm hired postponed due to the covid pandemic by the FFEM also concluded its and the RedLAC Assembly ended up own evaluation. The GEF’s final being held as a virtual event.

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PRO-SPECIES A mega-diverse country, Brazil faces and the importance of rapid-detection Forest species (17 of flora, and 5 the daunting challenge of protecting and response to invasions by exotic of fauna) will be catered to in this 3,286 species currently classified as species. Applied in an effective plan, including Pulsatrix perspicillata National Strategic Project for the Conservation at risk of extinction: 2,113 species of manner, these actions should trigger pulsatrix (spectacled owl), Merostachys flora, and 1,173 of fauna. The figures a knock-on effect that will benefit caucasiana (a neotropical bamboo), of Endangered Species are from the National Strategic Project other species of fauna and flora at Aegla brevipalma (freshwater for the Conservation of Endangered risk of extinction. crustacean) and Hysterionica Species—Pro-Species. In order to pinnatisecta (a rare plant). Hysterionica contribute to environmental protection In 2020, progress was recorded in the pinnatisecta (photo), which grows actions, the initiative works to preserve production of Territorial Action Plans on cliffside crevices in the Rio Rastro 290 Critically Endangered species (TAPs), an essential mechanism for Mountains, is endangered by coal (listed CR) that are not found at broadening the reach of protective mining operations in Santa Catarina. Protected Areas, and are not covered measures. In all, four initiatives were The plan covers 39 municipalities under Endangered Species Action officially approved and announced by across the two states. Plans, participatively-drafted public the state governments, and these will management plans that outline priority benefit 82 species across five states: Also approved, in late December actions for biodiversity conservation Bahia, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do 2020, was a TAP for the Mineiro — and natural habitat preservation. Sul, Santa Catarina and Tocantins. mountain chain, located in mideastern Hysterionica Minas Gerais state. Conservation pinnatisecta. The project strives to integrate state On July 7, the Cerrado Tocantins measures will be launched for 24 Photo: Gustavo Heiden and federal government development TAP was approved, establishing 16 threatened species: nineteen of initiatives and to implement public activities for the conservation of nine flora, three fish species and two polices that foster the protection, species (five fauna and four flora) invertebrates. Among the species conservation and management of listed critically endangered on the the TAP will endeavor to protect are these threatened species. As part IUCN Red List, including Bromelia the orchid Hoffmannseggella milleri, of the strategy, 24 territories were braunni, a ground-growing bromeliad and troglobite Eukoenenia sagarana. selected for the adoption of protective that can reach a height of 40 cm; During the same period, the Chapada measures to avoid environmental Paratrygon aiereba, known as the da Diamantina-Serra da Jiboia TAP was — degradation across an estimated nine discus ray, the largest freshwater ray also approved, and will focus on 27 million hectares. The work is carried in the Araguaia-Tocantins River Basin; CR species in Bahia. Killifish genus out in conjunction with 13 states: and a species of pacu Mylesinus (Anablepsoides Amazonas, Bahia, Espírito Santo, paucisquamamtus, a medium-sized fish Also in 2020, development continued cearensis). Photo: Sérgio Maia Goiás, Maranhão, Minas Gerais, Pará, from the Tocantins River. In November, on five more TAPs, at various stages Queiroz Paraná, Rio Grande do Sul, Rio de an executive summary of the TAP was of completion: The Campanha Sul and Janeiro, Santa Catarina, São Paulo published, marking the final phase Southeastern Mountains TAP in Rio and Tocantins. of development and kick-starting the Grande do Sul; Capixaba-Gerais TAP implementation stage. in Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo; As a complement to integrated Meio Norte TAP, São Paulo TAP and environmental management, Pro- July also saw the state government Xingu TAP in Mato Grosso. In fact, Species also focuses on organizing of Rio Grande do Sul officially Mato Grosso is home to one of the activities that help spread awareness consolidate the Southern Tableland two CR mammals covered by Pro- — of the effects of predatory fishing, TAP, a joint initiative with the Species: the black-shouldered opossum hunting and illegal extraction, the state of Santa Catarina. Twenty- (Caluromysiops irrupta) [see photo]. Black-shouldered opossum dangers posed by wildlife trafficking two critically endangered Atlantic This rare medium-sized mammal, (Caluromysiops irrupta). Photo: Márcio Martins

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PRO-SPECIES a solitary nocturnal tree-dweller, is sixty species across the various severely threatened by habitat loss biomes. In September, the Brazilian through deforestation. Ministry for the Environment and the International Union for Conservation In addition to the TAPs, Pro-Species of Nature (IUCN) ran a course on conducted other activities throughout biological invasion risk analysis and the 2020. In January, the project was Environmental Impact Classification present at JAMCAM 2020, the inter- of Alien Taxa (EICAT) methodology. American conference that brought In October, expeditions coordinated — together eight thousand youths from under the Endemic Flora of Rio de

Atlantic Forest 20 countries in Paraná. To mark the Janeiro NAP located five threatened Olive (Chionanthus occasion, an awareness workshop— endemic species in the Chacrinha, fluminensis). “Wildlife Patrollers”—was organized Grajaú and Serra da Tiririca State Photo: Inara Carolina da Silva to inform people about the the Parks. Batista/Divulgação need to combat wildlife trafficking. Pró-Espécies Two months later, an expedition Pro-Species is implemented by GEF was launched to gather data at the Agency FUNBIO, in partnership with Caparaó National Park and environs the Brazilian Institute for Renewable for an Atlantic Forest Fish and Aeglas Natural Resources (IBAMA), the NAP, coordinated by the ICMBio in Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro, partnership with the University of the Chico Mendes Biodiversity São Paulo. Conservation Institute (ICMBio) and the Brazilian Ministry for the In July, preparatory workshops were Environment. The initiative is funded organized for the Pollinating Insect by the Global Environment Facility NAP, with capacity to cover up to (GEF), and executed by WWF-Brazil.

SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES

The National Action Plan for the (CR). The species was found hirsutíssima—the latter not Conservation of Endangered in rocky groves in the Tiririca found since 1982. Seeds of Endemic Flora in the State of Rio Mountains, between the the endangered Terminalia de Janeiro (Endemic Flora of RJ municipalities of Maricá and acuminata were collected NAP), part of which is supported Niterói. Some specimens and used to produce the by Pro-Species, obtained were marked with numbered NAP’s very first seedlings AT LEAST SPECIES DIRECTLY BENEFITED important results through its plaques and pinned on the at the Guaratiba Nursery. 290 biodiversity protection strategy GPS. To produce seedlings, in 2020. Twelve species classified seeds were collected, but failed The field work focused on as Vulnerable, Endangered or to germinate, which means the protected areas across Rio Critically Endangered were study will have to try some new state, such as the Costa do STATES SDG identified by researchers, who techniques to stir them from Sol State Park, the Massambaba 13 then marked good mother trees, dormancy. Environmental Protection Area, collected the seeds and began the State-operated Jacarepiá phenological analysis—all key Of the 12 species located, Ecological Reserve, and the conservation stages. another two are listed as Grajaú and Serra da Tiririca State TERRITORIES Critically Endangered, eight Parks. All of these PAs lie within 24 One of the standout discoveries as Endangered, and one as the territory of Rio de Janeiro was the wild olive Chionanthus Vulnerable. The ones closest and are covered by the Endemic fluminensis (Oleaceae), which is to extinction are Rhipsalis Flora NAP and the Pro-Species listed as Critically Endangered pentaptera and Tibouchina Project. 9 MILLION HECTARES ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 91 GFC AGENCY FUNBIO

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READINESS Readiness is a line of GCF funding and was approved by the GCF. The that sets aside USD 1 million a first disbursements were made in year for use in coun-tries that are 2020. The project “Strengthening signatories to the United Nations Brazilian DAEs and executors for Framework Convention on Climate the implementation and execution Change (UNFCCC). Here, funding of GCF projects” aims to support can be requested through projects all three national accredited entities put forward by the Ministry for (FUNBIO, CAIXA and BNDES) in the Economy, the GCF focal point improving their capacities to operate in Brazil. The idea is to help in conjunction with the fund. The countries prepare to apply for GCG areas for im-provement the project is funds. The money can be used to focusing on are environmental and support national accredited entities, social safeguards, gender, and project like FUNBIO, in structuring actions monitoring. In addition, READINESS for the focal point, and to help will support the initial drafting of pro- prepare projects in accordance jects and boost communication with with GCF rules. public and private entities interested in accessing the GCF. Due to the In late 2019, FUNBIO presented a Covid-19 pandemic, the project will project in the Readiness category be conducted entirely online.

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Photo: Marizilda Cruppe/FUNBIO INSTITUTIONAL ANNUAL REPORT FUNBIO — 2020 93 CREDITS

COMMUNICATION AND MARKETING DEPARTMENT CREDITS Helio Hara Isabelle Costa Cover Parque Nacional do Jaú, AM. Photo: Victor Moriyama/FUNBIO

EDITOR Page 46 Common squirrel monkey, Amanã Sustainable Development Reserve, Helio Hara Amazonas. Photo: Victor Moriyama/FUNBIO

Page 72 TEXT Ubatuba, SP. Photo: Helena Wolfenson/FUNBIO Eduardo Auler Page 85 Brejinho Productive Unit, Betânia, Pernambuco. Photo: Marizilda Cruppe/ GRAPHIC DESIGN FUNBIO Luxdev — Giselle Macedo Page 88 Velvet worm (Epiperipatus adenocryptus). Photo: Cristiano Sampaio Costa TRANSLATION Page 91 Anthony Doyle Photo: Marizilda Cruppe/FUNBIO

Published in April 2021.

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