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Vale Natural Reserve 2018 / 11 | M#02 AIS Mining: Attitude, Innovation and Sustainability The program integrates researches and increases the use of native species for Recovery of Degraded Areas Vale Natural The company protects Spotlight Reserve is a 850 thousand hectares MAIS Bio Award celebrates quality scientific research center of research in the country projects at Vale Summary Ricardo Teles Words Vale Natural Person Reserve 04 Vale is committed 43 Professor and master researcher to the environment at Vale Institute of Technology 06 Vale Natural Reserve in its daily practice – Sustainable Development (RNV, Reserva Natural Vale) (ITV-DS, Instituto Tecnológico has been a privileged space for Vale – Desenvolvimento researchers from Brazil and all Cover Sustentável), Vera Fonseca’s over the world for decades career is dedicated to science 13 Felines Research projects on pumas MAIS Bio and jaguars aim at contributing Award to their conservation sua conservação 18 Mammals Mammals are the object of study within RNV and in other forested areas in Espírito Santo Ricardo Teles 47 MAIS Bio Humpback whales, species Ricardo Teles of flora and genomics – the winning themes Recovery of Degraded 52 Humpback Ricardo Teles Areas (RDA) 24 56 Species of Flora Researches on native species, soil, 26 Framework Species 60 Genomics and monitoring are Expediente members of a group 31 Soils of projects for Recovery Editorial committee: Sandoval Carneiro and Gleuza Jesué | Coordination: Domenica Blundi and Janaína Rezende of Degraded Areas | Technical Consultancy: Edgar Sepúlveda, Letícia Guimarães, Murilo Fiuza and Nei Rivello | Editorial: Tempero Comunicação 35 Grass Species | Editing and Revision: Filipe Barros, Janaína Rezende and Tempero Comunicação | Graphic Design: Imaginatto Design and Marketing | Desktop Publishing: Dia Design | Translation: Ccaps | Organization: Management of Technology and Innovation 38 Monitoring for Sustainability | Acknowledgements: Alberto Ninio, Ana Amoroso, Ana Srbek, Andressa Gatti, Danielle Redig, Eduardo Gusmão, Fernanda Tarbes, Geovane Siqueira, Geraldo Fernandes, Guilherme Oliveira, Igor Assis, Jackeceli Falqueto, José Oswaldo Siqueira, Luiza Vieira, Luiz Eduardo Dias, Luiz Felipe Campos, Marcio Ferreira, Patrícia Daros, Ricardo de Oliveira, Roberta Atherton, 40 Slurry Roberta Guimarães, Sérgio Lucena, Thiago Ferrari, Vera Castro, Vera Fonseca, Yumi Oki and all those who have supported the creation of this edition of the newsletter. 42 Biofactory Cover photo: Biofactory, Vale's seedling production center in Nova Lima (Minas Gerais) 2 MAIS Words Biodiversity as a Concept and a Practice The company is also responsible for protecting an area that adds up to 8.5 thousand km² (850 thousand hectares), 5.6 times larger than The concern for biodiversity is the total area occupied by its operations in Brazil closely tied to Vale’s existence and is well reflected in its Mission "To transform natural resources Cláudia Dantas Tancredo Luciana into prosperity and sustainable development"; in its Vision, which Reservas Particulares do Patrimônio the United Nations' Sustainable Further Information demonstrates its love for the human Natural), which are home to more Development Goals (SDGs) together MAIS newsletter is a publication race and for the planet; and in its than 70 flora species threatened with the Impact Mitigation Hierarchy. intended to communicate the scientific Values, as life matters most. The with extinction. Vale has already This tool provides a best-practice research projects conducted by Vale and company is fully aware that mining formalized a proposal to regularize approach to avoid and reduce its partners in teaching and research 77 thousand hectares of Legal negative impacts, and then recover activities significantly interfere with institutions. Through this publication, Reserve, and it should soon attain areas that are no longer used by the environment and, thus, has it is possible to find out more about 100 thousand hectares among all the company operations, before applied the concept that pursuing innovative initiatives capable of rural properties. finally considering the possibility No Net Loss to biodiversity in its contributing to the solution of important areas of operation – a commitment of offsetting the residual impacts. The Vale Fund, a Public Interest Non- issues for the company, both now and made since 2013 – is not just a Alberto Ninio and Gleuza Jesué Thus, Vale remains in compliance Governmental Organization (OSCIP, in the future. The newsletter can be read with the World Bank's Performance tangible goal, but that it can serve Organização da Sociedade Civil de in its entirety, in PDF version or on the studying various subjects, such The company is also responsible Standards for Financial Institutions, as a starting point to take it even Interesse Público) created in 2009, website: www.vale.com/MAIS. It would as environmental services, water for protecting an area that totals as well as with the principles of the further. That is, it can make positive invested R$120 million in initiatives be a pleasure to see you there. resources, genomics, climate 8.5 thousand km² (850 thousand International Council on Mining long-term changes to biodiversity. for three environment-related sectors change, and land use. As an hectares), 5.6 times larger than and Metals (ICMM), which promotes in the Amazon region, contributing Therefore, Vale operates in different example, the survey of the Carajás the total area occupied by its access to financial resources for to the implementation and Shared Knowledge areas, including investments rupicolous formations over iron operations in Brazil. The theme of Vale’s expansion and environmental consolidation of 230 thousand km in RDI and partnerships with outcrops (Viana et al., 2016), known this edition of the MAIS Newsletter compensation projects. If you think the projects presented in (23 million hectares) of conservation knowledge centers in Brazil and as canga vegetation that has been is Vale Natural Reserve. It is located MAIS newsletter could be useful for units in six states, benefiting Mining and biodiversity have become abroad to create solutions capable conducted by ITV-DS, together in the state of Espírito Santo, your department within Vale, contact indigenous and fishing communities, interconnected, which is something of preventing, mitigating, and with the Emílio Goeldi Museum in and has become a reference [email protected]. If you do so, we will among many others. worth celebrating, both by our offsetting impacts while offering Belém (Pará) and 140 Brazilian and center for scientific research into be able to share more information company and by society as a whole. society new and transformational foreign researchers, allowed the biodiversity in the country, with These initiatives – just a few of about the studies, important for the knowledge as a legacy for registration of 1,080 species that 240 projects developed. The Iron hundreds – show that the company conservation of biodiversity, and By Alberto Ninio, future generations. ITV-DS, were cataloged into four volumes Quadrangle region of Minas Gerais is deeply committed to maintaining Sustainability Director eventually put you in direct contact located in Belém (Pará), gathers of the scientific journal Rodriguésia, comprises 12.8 thousand hectares biodiversity, which is also very with the researchers, so you can Gleuza Jesué, exchange your experiences. together dozens of researchers published by the Botanical Garden of protected land in 21 Private good for business. For instance, Vale Environmental Executive with multidisciplinary skills of Rio de Janeiro. Natural Heritage Reserves (RPPNs, combines its efforts to comply with Management. 4 MAIS MAIS 5 Vale Natural Reserve with the Sooretama Biological Reserve, managed by the Chico Mendes Institute of Biodiversity Conservation (ICMBio), RNV is part of a preserved area of nearly 50 thousand hectares, which accounts for 10% of the remaining forest cover in the state of Espírito Santo. History When Vale was created in 1942, the company, was controlled by the Federal Government, and undertook the management of Vitória-Minas railroad (EFVM, Estrada de Ferro Vitória a Minas), nationalized by the ex-president Getúlio Vargas. For the conservation and expansion of the railroad, the mining company required crossties; thus, the purchase of farms in Linhares region was an opportunity Ricardo Teles Vale Natural Reserve: to guarantee a supply of wood for this purpose. Over 25 years, Vale acquired more than 100 properties, the first of them in 1957. Together, Center of Scientific the farms today make up the whole of the Reserve. surveys of the local fauna and flora. by UNESCO. This title was validated The old herbarium, built in 1963 to twice, in 2013 and 2017, reflecting The company contracted a well- Production document the variety of botanical its strategic importance to known professional, Dammis species in RNV, was refurbished. The biodiversity in the country. The area Heinsdijk, technical advisor at the following year, Ariane Luna Peixoto, protects an important and extensive Food and Agriculture Organization NV celebrates, in 2018, 40 1973. In 1978, the Brazilian Institute of by a group of specialist agents, with a biologist and researcher who at remnant of the Tabuleiro Atlantic of the United Nations (FAO), to years as an area officially and Forest Development (IBDF, Instituto the aim to fight against poaching that time was member of Professor Forest, one of the most endangered
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