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The first action undertaken was the establishment of a protected area in the Xixuau-Xiparina rivers in the Lower Rio Branco- Rio Jauaperì region. This was done by buyng the right of possession of the land from the local inhabitants while at the same time incorporating them into the association so that they would have maintained the effective posssession of the land The property of land continued to be held by the Federal Government. Over the following years this system was used to reach the current 172.000 hectares which comprise the reserve and which was demarcated in 1997. At the same time the essential services of health, education, transport and communication were provided to the traditional communities of the Rio Jauaperi, as they had requested, and activities of ecotourism, and provision of logistical services to research teams and nature documentaries as well as handicrafts work were initiated In 1992 initiated the collaboration with the University of Amazonas and INPA and other institutes for the implementation of sustainable development of the area of the lower Rio Jauaperi. In 1992 also initiated the collaboration with IBAMA for the preservation of natural resources in the region of the Rio Jauaperì In 2000 the project "Amazonia Landscape Mapping and Biodiversity Estimation using Indigenous Taxonomy " was started. This project, is founded on the equivalence, with regards to biodiversity, between modern science and traditional communities knowledge, as stipulated by the Conventiion on Biodiversity. It aims to build the capacity of Extractive Reserves to extract from the forest another and potetially very remunerative product: scientific data.. In 2001 IBAMA/CNPT and the Amazonia Association initiated a Partnership in order to protect the natural resources in the Jauaperì region and set-up the Xixuaù Extractivist Reserve. The Extractivist Reserve is a Conservation Unit which guarantees to the traditional peoples the management of environmental resources on sustainable bases, improving the quality of life, generating income, and fixing people in their own community. During these years the Associacao Amazonia and the Reserve Xixuau were subjected to unfounded accusations and slander by some politicians of Roraima. The attacks culminated into two parliamentary enquiry commissions set up to discover if the land of the reserve had been acquired illegally and if AA was taking part into illegal activities. Both Parliamentary Commissions did not find any evidence of illegal activities In 2005 the area was visited by a team composed by the head of IBAMA-CNP of Roraima, the head of NEA of Roraima, by a member of the CNS of Amazonas and a member of the GTA of Roraima. This visit, prompted by the Ministry of Environment, was the first independent visit to the remote Xixuau Reserve and finally vindicated what the Amazonia Association had been saying and doing all theser years: ecologically sustainable development , based on the alliance between local traditional communities and the world civil society, and on the synergy between poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation is possible and is indeed flourishing in the Rio Jauaperi. The visiting team also met with the strong will of the traditional communities of the Jauaperi to associate and create the Extractive Reserve of the Lower Rio Branco-Rio Jauaperi. In 2005 the present the government of Roraima initiated the construction of the road BR-451 which will cut thorough the reserve and issued a decree to colonize the area of the reserve. These actions by the the present government of Roraima are part of its larger plan of extensive deforestation and of the expansion of the multinational agro-business of beef, soya and rice.. The communities and associations of the Rio Jauaperi have responded immediately by formally repudiating the colonization and the construction of the road. They believe that only the creation of ` the Extractive Reserve of the Low River Branco and Jauaperi' by the Federal Government of Brazil will save this natural paradise, the inhabiting communities and their culture from sure destruction. Now the communities of the lower Rio Branco-Rio Jauaperi demand the immediate creation of the Lower Rio Branco-Jauaperi Extractive reserve because professional fishing boats, ranchers, loggers and the government of Roraima with its plans for building roads and colonising the area are destroying the birthright of their children and their grand children. The communities of the lower Rio Branco-Rio Jauaperi are asking people of good will to help toward the creation of the Reserve and sign a petition for the creation of the Extractive Reserve to be sent Marina Silva, Minister of Environment of the Government of Brazil and other authorities |
In 2005 the area was visited by a team composed by the head of IBAMA-CNP of Roraima, the head of NEA of Roraima, by a member of the CNS of Amazonas and a member of the GTA of Roraima. This visit, prompted by the Ministry of Environment, was the first independent visit to the remote Xixuau Reserve and finally vindicated what the Amazonia Association had been saying and doing all theser years: ecologically sustainable development , based on the alliance between local traditional communities and the world civil society, and on the synergy between poverty reduction and biodiversity conservation is possible and is indeed flourishing in the Rio Jauaperi. The visiting team also met with the strong will of the traditional communities of the Jauaperi to associate and create the Extractive Reserve of the Lower Rio Branco-Rio Jauaperi. In 2005 the present the government of Roraima initiated the construction of the road BR-451 which will cut thorough the reserve and issued a decree to colonize the area of the reserve. These actions by the the present government of Roraima are part of its larger plan of extensive deforestation and of the expansion of the multinational agro-business of beef, soya and rice.. The communities and associations of the Rio Jauaperi have responded immediately by formally repudiating the colonization and the construction of the road. They believe that only the creation of ` the Extractive Reserve of the Low River Branco and Jauaperi' by the Federal Government of Brazil will save this natural paradise, the inhabiting communities and their culture from sure destruction. Now the communities of the lower Rio Branco-Rio Jauaperi demand the immediate creation of the Lower Rio Branco-Jauaperi Extractive reserve because professional fishing boats, ranchers, loggers and the government of Roraima with its plans for building roads and colonising the area are destroying the birthright of their children and their grand children. The communities of the lower Rio Branco-Rio Jauaperi are asking people of good will to help toward the creation of the Reserve and sign a petition for the creation of the Extractive Reserve to be sent Marina Silva, Minister of Environment of the Government of Brazil and other authorities |