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The Amazon rainforest, regarded by many as one of the planet’s most important ecosystems, is thought to be home to 10% of known species on Earth and 47 million people, of which over 2 million are Indigenous. The Amazon’s vast and biodiverse biome spans across 8 countries, with around 60% within Brazil’s borders. Despite the forest’s vital importance, in supporting an array of extraordinary life and in absorbing climate-warming gases, an area equivalent to the size of Qatar was cleared between 2021 and 2022. Now more than ever, there is urgent need to protect Earth's greatest life reserve and largest tropical rainforest – both for our planet’s future as well as for those that call it home today.
The Rio Anapu-Pacaja Forest Protection project is situated in the northwest of Brazil, Para state, in the micro-region of Portel, and aims to conserve 165,707 hectares of the Brazilian Amazon. Around 50% of the population in this region are rural communities, who have historically relied on subsistence agriculture and wood extraction to survive. In recent years the forest has become increasingly degraded due to unplanned timber logging and grazing activities, with high levels of land grabbing and land conflict putting increasing pressure on native forest dwellers. With the aim to strengthen local governance and put an end to illegal logging in the region, the project has been working closely with the local Riverine people and traditional rural villagers around the project area, to gain their land tenure documents and eventually full freehold title deeds.
To-date the project has supported 127 local families in obtaining legal land tenure paperwork, strengthening their rights over the land and ability to conserve their Amazonian region. By working closely with these communities, the project both encourages the preservation of the landscape through sustainable agroforestry practices, and improves local socioeconomic development by providing training in new income streams, such as beekeeping. Additional activities that local residents participate in include land surveillance and biodiversity monitoring. All of these activities focus on one aim: to conserve the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, which in turn effectively reduces climate-warming emissions associated with deforestation, safeguards invaluable biodiversity and protects the livelihoods and cultural heritage of native communities who call it their home.
To learn more about the Sustainable Development Goals verified by the standard for this project, please check the registry link.
