REPORT BRA 2013-2017 THE AMAZON WE WANT Integrating Conservation and Development Colophon WWF-Brazil CEO Maurício Voivodic Amazon Program Leader Ricardo Mello Publication Manager Osvaldo Barassi Gajardo – WWF-Brazil Publication Design and Writing Maria Benevides – Quartzo Comunicação Editors Frederico Brandão – WWF-Brazil Jorge Eduardo Dantas – WWF-Brazil Maria Benevides – Quartzo Comunicação Review Cristina Velho Jorge Eduardo Dantas – WWF-Brazil Maria Benevides – Quartzo Comunicação Content Review Lucas Silva – WWF-Brazil Flávio Quental – WWF-Brazil Moacyr Araújo – WWF-Brazil Lorenza Cordeiro – WWF-Brazil Marcelo Oliveira – WWF-Brazil Dion Ward – WWF-Brazil Translation Regina Peixoto Vasquez Graphic Design and Infographics Érica Cristina Ferreira dos Santos – Move Comunicação integrada Photos WWF-Brazil Cover Photo Zig Koch/WWF-Brazil Maps Alessandra Manzur - WWF-Brazil Logo license CC Texts © Photos & Images May 2018 ©1986 – Panda Symbol WWF-Brazil World Wildlife Fund THE AMAZON WE WANT Integrating Conservation and Development Amazon Program 2013-2017 WWF-Brazil May 2018 ABOUT WWF-Brazil WWF-Brazil has been working in the Our mission is to contribute to nature conservation, O Amazon ever since the creation of the harmonizing human activity with biodiversity organization, in 1996. In 2010, the Amazon conservation and the rational use of natural Program began to work according to the present resources, for the benefit of citizens today and future model, carrying out projects involving scientific generations. Join us at: wwf.org.br research, diagnoses, the protection of priority areas for conservation, capacity building, a n d the WWF Network is the largest conservation network promotion and development of production chains, in the world, present in over 100 countries and with through Environmental Education, mobilization 5 million members all over the world. Its actions are and engagement actions. The organization also based on science and seek to find innovative solu- works to improve environmental and forest public tions to meet the needs of both people and nature. policies, as well as to promote financial instruments WWF has been working in Brazil since the 1970’s, to reward those who provide ecosystem services. when it carried out the first studies on the Golden Follow us at: somosamazonia.wwf.org.br Lion Tamarin and started the campaign to prevent its extinction. With over 4,000 members, WWF-Brazil is a Brazilian non-governmental and non profit organization; it is also a member of WWF Network. Catalog Card This publication is licensed by Creative Commons (www.creativecommons. org.br). Text reproduction without WWF-Brazil’s authorization is allowed Cataloguing in Publication (CIP) international data for non-commercial use only. 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Uhlmann da Costa e Silva - CRB-11 879 Sharing through the same license: Works using texts from this publication can only be distributed if showing an identic license as this one. BRASÍLIA – DF MANAUS – AM RIO BRANCO – AC SGCV lote15, S/N Rua Silvânia, casa 88 Rua Hugo Carneiro, 811 Ed Jade Office, salas 319 e 421 Conjunto Vilar Câmara Bairro Bosque Zona Industrial, Guará Bairro Aleixo CEP: 69.900-550 Brasília – Distrito Federal Manaus – Amazonas Rio Branco – Acre CEP: 71.215-650 CEP: 69.083-410 + (55) 68 3244-1705 + (55) 61 3364-7400 + (55) 92 3644-3844 + (55) 68 3223-4672 + (55) 61 3364-7474 Photo: Adriano Photo: Adriano Gambarini/WWF-Brazil With 6.7 million square kilometers, the Amazon Forest extends over nine countries. The majority of it – 4.2 million sq. km – is located in Brazil, where it covers half of the the country’s territory. FOREWORD he largest continuous tropical forest in the world is a Tpriority area for WWF-Brazil and plays important rolesin climate regulation and carbon stock. A biodiversitychampion, the Amazon is home to 17.6 million Brazilians, including the majority of indigenous peoples in Brazil. Together with government agencies, local and indigenous communities, non-governmental organizations, the business sector, and other partners, we seek to contribute to the protection of great portions of the Amazon and to the preservation of the ecosystem services that it provides. We have been doing this for four decades now. The initial work for the conservation of species and their habitats evolved to the promotion and development of sustainable use and planning for region. Our present strategy includes partnerships with the financial system in order to The create economic incentives for the sustainable development, acknowledgement and with the timber sector in order to help organize and legalize of the forest the production chain. It also includes actions in urban areas, focusing on the impacts in nearby forest areas and on fighting value by forest climate change. “and city dwellers We celebrate the strength and success of the Amazon also depends Pro-tected Areas Program (ARPA) – the largest tropical forest on the greater protection program in the world – and the fact that WWF- Brazil has a leading role in it. ARPA has already achieved 98 social control of per cent of its target to protect 60 million hectares of forests the resources by in this region. Nevertheless, we are greatly concerned with the decrease of funds and resources for forest patrolling activities, riverine population, as well as congressional attempts to decrease by 40 per cent the indigenous people, Protected Areas located in the so-called Arch of Deforestation, farmers, and the where illegal logging is more intense, and also where the Protected Areas (PAs) supported by ARPA are located. civil society in The majority of the PAs facing area reduction are located general” in Apuí, Manicoré, and Novo Aripuanã municipal counties, where WWF-Brazil’s Amazon Program and partners have been achieving progress in organizing the timber activity and expanding the good practices in agriculture and cattle ranching among entrepreneurs, developers and farmers (producers) who who believe in the importance of sustainability in the region, in opposition to those who just want to deplete its natural resources. We believe that citizens can and should actively participate in the decisions about local development. Our technical staff in the field attribute the increased illegal deforestation taking place in Southern Amazonas state, recent past years, to the lack of knowledge about the new Brazilian Forest Legislation, together with false expectations regarding an amnesty for past illegal actions, as well as the constant postponement of the Rural Environmental Register deadline (CAR, in the Portuguese acronym for Cadastramento Ambiental Rural). Like our local partners – including the largest rural producers association in this region –, we have sought to provide quality information, and we hope that the Apuí Municipal Council will approve the first municipal plan to fight deforestation. This plan was developed through a partnership between the government and the production sectors. During the 40 years that WWF-Brazil has been working in this region, the Brazilian Amazon lost over 18 per cent of its vegetation cover. In spite of peaks detected in past years, and of the pressures from the mineral and energy wealth of the last Brazilian frontier, we value our contribution to support the Brazilian government in curbing deforestation rates – there is no risk of deforestation rates regaining the out-of-control status observed during the 1980’s and up to 2004. We trust the joint effort of our partners in overcoming the difficulties and bet on landscape planning -- an expression that, little by little, is being incorporated in the managers’ vocabulary, and that expresses our vision for the future of the Amazon: development with responsibility and respect for nature. We trust the joint effort of our partners in overcoming the difficulties and favor landscape planning -- an expression that, little by little, is being incorporated in the managers’ vocabulary, and that expresses our vision for the future of the Amazon: development with responsibility and respect for nature. We did not give up the mission of researching and supporting research on Amazon biodiversity, of which we still know very littel about. We count on research and innovation to increase this knowledge and help decision makers. The valuing of the forest, by both forest and city dwellers, requires greater social control of resources by riverine and indigenous populations, farmers, and civil society in general. Environmental Education, capacity building, and mobilization of local populations are always present in our actions, in order to enable their participation in decisions affecting their lives. During the past