Title: Extractive Reserves - For a Sustainable Amazon Rainforest Location: Categories: Environment Human Rights
Status:
In Progress
Timeline:
February 11 09 to February 11 09
Description:
The National Council of Rubber Tappers was founded by Chico Mendes and his friends. Their dream: preserving the Amazon rainforest for future generations and defending the rights of the traditional communities that live therein. Their solution: Extractive Reserves
Background:
The first extractive reserve (RESEX from the Portuguese reserva extrativista) was created after Chico Mendes was assassinated in 1988. Today, there are more than 50 RESEX all over Amazonia, where families live and harvest the forest's natural resources without harming the environment. Their presence is the best guarantee for the protection of the Amazon as they are the first to detect invasions, illegal logging, fires and other criminal activities.
Objectives:
- preservation of the Amazon's biodiversity and ecosystemrn- protection of the human rights of the traditional extractive populationrn- combat climate changern- strengthen extractive production and commercialization
Milestones:
More than 50 RESEX createdrnother forms of conservation units created: Extractive Settlement Projects; Sustainable Development Reserves; Sustainable Development Projects; rnThrough much advocacy in 2008: the first national policy for extractivist populations; special health policies for people living in the forest, including recognition of traditional medicine
Budget:
varies; CNS is a grassroots movement that sustains itself through projects, many local, some of them Amazon-wide
Needs:
spread the word: sustainable development in the Amazon is possible and underway!rnput pressure on the Brazilian government to meet up to their promises (the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Natural Resources is particularly bad at this)rnvolunteers to translate texts from Portuguese into English, German, Spanish and all other languagesrnmoney
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