Investor Presentaiton
REDD+ in the State of Acre - Brazil
REDD+ in the State of Acre - Brazil
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Photograph: KWF/ Bernhard Schurian
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Deforestation dynamics in the Amazon
Deforestation was mainly driven by large-scale
expansion of cattle ranching. Agriculture and
road construction along with the establishment
to deforestation and forest degradation.
Through command-and-control measures,
of agrarian reform settlements contribute further
large-scale deforesta-tion has mostly been
stopped. The tremendous challenge re-
mains to address the still significant small-
and medium-scale defor-estation.
Acre State is one of Brazil's states with the greatest ethnic diversity. There are 15 Indigenous Peoples,
speakers of Pano, Arawak and Arawa languages. The 36 indige-nous lands cover 14% of Acre's territory,
a territorial extension of 2.4 million hec-tares. Three indigenous groups live in voluntary isolation with
initial contact to other indigenous groups on the border of Acre with Peru.
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REM's contribution for general ER of Acre State between 2010-2017
Chico Mendes and the rubber tappers'
defense of tropical forests
The rubber tappers or 'seringueiros' greatly con-
tributed to Brazil's leading role as rubber producer
and exporter in the beginning of the 20th century
until 1910, when Brazilian rubber extraction de-
clined because of competition with Asian rubber. Se-
ringueiros remained in the region and today cons-
titute forest-dependent traditional commu-nities of
the Amazon.
In the 1980s rubber tappers successfully pro-
tested against defor-estation in Acre, under the le-
adership of Chico Mendes. Amid the conflicts over
deforestation he was shot in 1988, at age 44, drawing
global attention to the rubber tapper struggles. As
a result of this social movement, a new type of pro-
tected areas - "extractive re-serves" - was created in
Acre, combining forest conservation with land-use
rights, where rubber tappers could live their lives
making use of the natural resources and practicing
small-holder agriculture. Since then, extractive re-
serves were created throughout the Amazon and in
other regions of Brazil and have inspired people-
-centered conservation approaches throughout the
world.
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Reduction of deforestation
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Acre: A Forest Protection Pioneer
Beginning of the first "pro-forest government" (Governo da Floresta)
Start of the incentive program for native rubber (State Law 1277/Chico-Mendes-Law)
Ecological-economic zoning (first phase 1:1 million)
Establishment of FEF (State Forest Fund, Law 1426)
Policy for "forest citizenship" (Pro-Florestania)
Ecological-economic zoning (second phase 1:250.000, State Law 1904)
Participatory "Ethno Zoning", Development of Indigenous Territorial Management
Plans PGTI
Programme for Certification of Smallholder Properties (State Law 2025)
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2010
State Plan to Prevent and Control Deforestation in Acre, aligned with the Federal
Government's Plan for the Amazon (PPCDAM)
2010
Establishment of SISA (State Law 2308/2010)
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Criação do Instituto de Mudanças Climáticas e Regulação de Serviços Ambientais
(IMC), coordenando a implementação do SISAView entire presentation