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| Whereas the Associação Amazônia
holds as aims the preservation and conservation of the
biodiversity and the social diversity in the tropical
forests of Amazônia, being able : |
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- to suggest, promote,
coordinate or execute actions and projects with
those aims;
- to promote the
interest into and knowledge of the culture of the
peoples of the forest;
- to favor the creation
of a degree economic self-sufficiency and of
financial independence for the inhabitants of the
Amazon forest, through the balanced handling of
renewable natural resources ;
- to increase the
knowledge of the ecosystems and of the interaction
with man, through projects of scientific
investigation, that allow to define the type of
appropriate intervention, and to implement methods
and techniques of maintainable development,
- to promote actions of
environmental education, publications, generation of
images, networking and exchange among sister
organizations, specialists of the field and
students. (Art. 3 of the Associaçao Amazonia
Statute)
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| The Amazonia Association has
implemented the following model for the management and
care of the lands protected and preserved : |
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- The Possession Rights
are bought and transferred to the Amazonia
Association
- The sellers of the
Possession Rights are immediately made full members
of the Amazonia Association
- When new members are
accepted into the Association, measures are taken to
maintain a balance between forest indigenous members
and non indigenous members. Optimally the Indigenous
Members of the Association hold the majority of
votes in the General Assembly of the Amazonia
Association.
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| First action is to provide
essential services of : |
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- Health : construction of a
health post and insure the presence of a certified
nurse
- Education : construction of a
school and insure the presence of certified
elementary teacher
- Transport : provide a boat to
help economic activities and to be used in
emergencies
- Work : provide basic
salaries and rancio for the families working as
guards of the reserve
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| Successively : |
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- sustainable development
activities are initiated like ecotourism, handicraft
production, logistic support to media operators and
to visiting scientific researchers
- modern ecological agricultural
activities are implemented to assure the right to
good and sufficient nourishment and the right to
alimentary sovereignty to the inhabitants of the
reserve
- projects of scientific
research of the forests and its biodiversity are
implemented and run
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At the same time the essential
services of Health, Education, Transport and
Communications are maintained and improved.
In the reserve the following regulations are observed : |
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- No commercial fishing
- No commercial logging
- No hunting with the
occasional exception of peccaries, pacas, cutias
which invade and destroy the plantations.
- It is permitted to
use up to 1% of land area for plantations and
intensive extraction
- No garbage disposal
with obligation to the inhabitants of the reserve to
collect any items of garbage they find
- 6. It is permitted to
use up to 19% for sustainable fruit harvesting and
the sustainable extraction of other forestry
resources. Guided visits to this area by visitors,
researchers, photographers and documentary film
makers are permitted.
- 80% core area of the
reserve where no activities take place, no human
presence except for authorized entry in exceptional
circumstances. The local people control this area
- The reserve is run by
the local inhabitants. A reserve manager and vice
manager chosen by them in free elections make the
day to day decisions. More important decisions
regarding running of the reserve are made in open
assemblies.
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