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Paraná develops pioneering project for biodiversity recovery
The Secretariat of the Environment and Hídro Resources of Paraná has been developing, since the beginning of 2003, the Paraná Biodiversity Program, that consists on the recovery of biodiversity through the formation of “ecological corridors” or “Biodiversity corridors ”.
These corridors are being formed through the connection of forest remainders such as the Legal Reserves, Units of Conservation (state, municipal and federal parks), Areas of Permanent Preservation (riparian forest buffers, hillsides and headlands), Private Reserves of Natural Patrimony (RPPN), Ecological Stations among others. The objective, that makes possible the flow of animals and vegetables, is to adjust the practical country properties to the ecologically healthful ones.
About U$32 millions they are being invested in the Program with financial support of the GEF - Funding, through the World Bank. The work is considered by the GEF as a pioneering experience in the world. “The state of Paraná is the first state to construct effective tools of managing the works of conservation of biodiversity, that guides all the public policy in this area”, declares the Secretariat of the Environment of Paraná, Luiz Eduardo Cheida.
The Paraná Project Biodiversity, encloses three distinct regions of performance, located throughout the rivers Iguaçu and Paraná, and had been chosen by the strategical importance of remainders of original ecosystems. They are the three corridors: Araucária corridor, in the region center-south; corridor Iguaçu - Paraná, bioma known as “Atlantic Forest of Brazilian” and that he involves 26 cities of entorno of the National Park of the Iguaçu and corridor Great Caiuá-Island, complex the Interior ambient formed by 26 cities northwestern of the State up to the National Park of Great Island.
The area that is being worked is approximately 2,2 million hectares involving 63 cities of the state where if they find six units of conservation state and three federal ones.
Beyond the connection of forest remainders the program works with other sources that foresee the arrangement of processes of environmental education of the population that lives in surrounded the corridors, implantation of a rigorous system resetting forest supervision, reorganization of the units of conservation and Parks and planning of the use of the agricultural space.
About 20 thousand inserted agricultural families in the biodiversity corridors are receiving resources and technical support to transform its areas into ambiently correct properties. The idea is to convert traditional cattle agriculture into a less impact agriculture to the ground and and to the environment, for example, the use of agroecological systems, conservative and organic agriculture as well as the use of technological alternatives.
Moreover, the program foresees the implantation of 40 agroecological modules as model of sustainable production of lesser impact to the environment that will assist in the development of agricultural and ecological tourism, fishing breeding, beekeeping and handicraft projects.
Qualification Courses are being offered for 600 municipal professors to divulge the importance of the conservation of the fauna and native flora. The Forest Policy acts in the fiscalization of the three corridors, preventing illegal activities as hunting, fishsing, deforests and falling of trees in permanent preservation areas.
Lines of direction - During Paraná Biodiversity Project planning was elaborated some diagnosis identifying the main causes of the loss of biodiversity in the state, such as, high impact agriculture, illegal hunts and fishing, deforestation and the absence of the riparian forest buffers.
In the state of Paraná the Environment policy was totally reorganized in its formation in which all the programs are linked. One of the biggest challenges in the environmental area is the resetting of the forest covering of the State, that in 1930 was of 64,12% and in the year of 2000 it added only 24.87% of forest remainders. The most critical situation occurs when the highest developed periods are counted (average and advanced) that adds 14.64%, or only in advanced period which totals 3.40%.
Trying to revert this picture, Paraná government is developing efficient actions such as Riparian Forest Buffers Program, Fauna Protection Program among others that are directly associated to the Paraná Biodiversity Program.
Riparian Forest Buffers Program foresees the plantation of 90 million trees in the edges of the main rivers of the state, hydrographic units of conservation, basins and sources of public supplying. The producers are still receiving resources to isolate the areas next the edges to the rivers letting the vegetation sets itself again naturally.
Paraná Biodiversity Program is also stimulating the recovery of the Riparian Forest Buffers and working in two ecosystems in the Paraná State that are the Ombrófila (araucária) Mixing Forest and the semidecidual estacional forest where we find species as peroba, ivory wood of jaracatiá and guapeva.
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