REPORT IN ENGLISH INSTITUTE FOR ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH 2018 “May the name of our institution serve as inspiration, as the beauty INSTITUTE of a flowering ipe FOR ECOLOGICAL will help grant us the RESEARCH strength, the will and the persistence 2018 we need to continue building a better Brazil.” Suzana Machado Padua, IPÊ president 2 | REPORT IN ENGLISH | .REPORT IN ENGLISH 3. THEME PROJECT 3.1 Integrates Solutions for the Amazon region 20 3.1.1 Participative Monitoring of Biodiversity 21 3.1.2 Motivation and Success in the SUMMARY Management of Protected Areas 23 1. IPÊ IN 2018 3.2 Research & Development 1.1 Letter from the President 6 3.2.1 Monitoring of Ecological 1.2 Introduction 6 Corridors 25 1.3 Impact: IPÊ in numbers 7 1.4 Highlihts 8 4. PARTNERSHIPS AND 2.PROJECTS BY LOCATION SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS 26 2.1 Pontal Do Paranapanema 10 2.2 Nazaré Paulista: 5. EDUCATION 28 Cantareira System 14 2.3 Pantanal and Cerrado 17 CONNECT WITH IPÊ 33 | REPORT IN ENGLISH | 5 and desire to innovate, dare and to do the best of knowledge and information generated through is necessary, and it must involve the civil society, 1. IPÊ IN 2018 they can within each context presented by life. our activities. governments and the private sector. The support network we have from partners, The objectives cannot be reached unless 1.1 Letter from the President governmental organizations, business and the civil Black lion tamarin listed as vulnerable all these sectors participate. society is valuable for all of this to take place. in the IUCN list. We have followed this objective We hope that this report not only informs Life is always in constant movement, often seeming The same may be said about our Board, which since the birth of our organization. When we reach about the accomplishments of this organization, faster at some moments and slower at others. is becoming more and more active, and about it, it will mean that the species that is a symbol but also helps readers and the society to recognize Things are no different for IPÊ. We lived the hundreds of people and communities of the State of São Paulo and of the biodiversity that there are civil society organizations that work a challenging 2018, but, above all, it was that follow our work and grant us meaning associated to it has received due attention seriously, competently, representatively, and a promising year and provided much acceleration for continuation. We thank each one of them. in terms of scientific research, management, are capable of demonstrating the results reached in certain areas that give us a strong sense education, community involvement, planning and showing how resources are used for of purpose once accomplished. I hope you will appreciate this report, will celebrate and public policy actions, to the extent that the a socio-environmental agenda for Brazil and our victories with us and will learn about the IUCN and researchers recognize that its the planet. At the end of the report, you will We graduated nine new Master’s from challenges we still face so that we can enjoy this level of threats has improved. also find the balance sheets and financial ESCAS/IPÊ, and now they are taking this planet in a more balanced way, making it a place statements reviewed and approved by knowledge and applying it to their areas of work, with greater harmony between all its inhabitants. Consolidating Protected Areas. Currently, an independent auditor. both in Brazil and throughout Latin America. an expressive number of Protected Areas There are currently over 110 Master’s spreading are far from playing their part in conservation I wish you a good read! our seeds. In the Amazon, we implemented of biodiversity and its associated resources, integrated programs for conservation 1.2 Introduction be it due to management challenges or to in partnership with local communities, joining the lack of integration with other players traditional and scientific knowledge in protected A project that began over 30 years ago to save a and landscape elements. 1.3 Impact: IPÊ in numbers areas. That means that we are helping protect primate species from extinction has triggered a set of actions and the establishment some 35 million hectares, 350,000 square Infect all sectors with the principles 2018, of a multidisciplinary team that was highly kilometers, which is equal to the area of some of sustainability and conservation. An objective IPÊ WORK DIRECTLY REACHED 14,695 PEOPLE, European countries. engaged in sustainability and conservation that is part of all IPÊ initiatives. We still have some BENEFITING THEM IN SEVERAL MANNERS, of socio-environmental resources. This is the IPÊ projects and environmental education programs LIKE TRAINING, RURAL TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE, In 2018, we continued celebrating important results team, which currently operates in several regions that are designed exclusively for this purpose. ACTIVITIES FOR INCOME GENERATION AND for conservation of the black lion tamarin, the tapir in Brazil, developing and disseminating innovative ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION. models for conservation of biodiversity, and the Giant Armadillo, despite the continued Promote sustainable landscapes. This is evident THESE ACTIVITIES JOIN SOCIETY pressure on their natural habitats and lives. as announced in our mission. in the several ways we seek intervention AND ENVIRONMENTAL INTERESTS, The largest Atlantic Forest reforestation corridor The following pages of this report describe in landscapes, like the restoration of forestry, COLLABORATING TO EXPAND continues growing and generating good results for our main activities and the main results in 2018. the establishment of corridors, management THE POTENTIAL OF CONSERVATION many species, including humans. Finally, To better understand the strategies that support of mosaics, and protected areas, among others. OF BRAZILIAN BIODIVERSITY. we ended the year with approval of a great these activities, we can start with the following question: “What transformations do we want program to benefit indigenous reservations Have transformation agents throughout Brazil. ACTIVITY...NUMBER OF PEOPLE BENEFITED and other protected areas in the Amazon: to generate through our actions?” In a recent For this purpose, ESCAS, our school, has been LIRA - Legado Integrado da Região Amazônica effort by our team to answer this question, eight playing a prominent part, with its several forms RURAL (Integrated Legacy of the Amazon Region). strategic objectives arose: of training and knowledge multiplication TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.................... 421 in the areas of environmental conservation Did we face challenges? Many! But when you have Guide biodiversity conservation in Brazil. and sustainability. SUSTAINABLE a clear plan of where you want to get, hardships This objective reflects the understanding that ALTERNATIVES conservation of biodiversity has the same level shrink or become learning opportunities to Conserving biodiversity is our broadest strategic FOR INCOME ....................................... 367 improve what you do. That is why the difficulties of importance as other themes that are already objective, and the one that contemplates all those we face are seen as valuable lessons that, broadly known to society, including economics, mentioned above. INTEGRATED when accompanied by reflection throughout health and education. SOLUTIONS the execution processes, bring maturity and the None of the strategic objectives mentioned FOR CONSERVATION desire to dare or to do better. Overcoming each Influence public conservation policies. For such, may be reached by activities that are exclusive OF PROTECTED AREAS of the challenges is only possible due to the we seek dialogue, communication and articulation to our organization. An integrated effort IN THE AMAZON................................ 1,989 quality of the IPÊ team, which works with passion with decision-makers, so that they may make use 6 | REPORT IN ENGLISH | | REPORT IN ENGLISH | 7 TRAINING Ministry for Environment, Protection of Nature IPÊ to expand work in the Amazon biome that is so multicultural and diverse, IPÊ AND EDUCATION and Nuclear Safety (BMU). The project also and several scientific and environmental NGOs that FOR SUSTAINABILITY......................... 2,586 counts on the technical support of the Deutsche with the LIRA project in 2019 operate in this region created the “Amazon Space: Gesellscha fürInternaonale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) forests and communities”, during the ninth edition ENVIRONMENTAL GmbH and has the financial support of the German In 2019, IPÊ is scheduled to start the LIRA project of the Brazilian Protected Area Congress (CBUC). EDUCATION......................................11,488 Development Bank (KfW), through the Brazilian - Integrated Legacy of the Amazon Region, The space directly attracted over 500 people Fund for Biodiversity (Funbio). approved in 2018, by the Brazilian Development throughout the event, in Florianópolis (SC), Brazil. Bank (BNDES), with R$ 45 million from the Amazon Fund. The resources will be turned to Partner NGOs 1.4 Highlights the management of the initiative and to the (Funbio, FVA, IDESAM, IDSM, IEB, Imazon, Specialists plot National Action public call for projects to promote work for the Imaflora, IPAM, ISA, Kanindé, WCS Brasil , WHRC Environment Ministry and IPÊ update map strengthening and consolidation of management priority areas in the Atlantic Forest Plan for primate conservation and WWF Brasil) are part of the so-called Andes- of of 83 protected areas in the Legal Amazon, The