{"id":7684,"date":"2018-06-13T10:29:10","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T10:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amazontrip.info\/web\/?p=7684"},"modified":"2019-05-06T08:07:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T08:07:51","slug":"a-new-protected-forest-in-the-brazilian-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amazontrip.info\/web\/en\/a-new-protected-forest-in-the-brazilian-amazon\/","title":{"rendered":"A new protected forest in the Brazilian Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazontrip.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/resex_jauaperi.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7685 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.amazontrip.info\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/resex_jauaperi-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The native inhabitants of the Brazilian Amazon are celebrating a new protected forest!<\/p>\n<p>On the 5<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0of June, World Environment Day,\u00a0581,173\u00a0hectares of forest around Xixua\u00fa were granted legal protection.\u00a0The area, more than half the size of Jamaica, integrates an important corridor of conservation units and is a key area to tackle climate change.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The new Reserve is superb news for the people engaged in the fight for the conservation of the Amazon as it is a step further in the protection of the forest and its traditional inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>Named\u00a0the Extractive Reserve of the Lower Rio Branco-Jauaperi (RESEX), the new protected area has been created responding to a request formulated 17 years ago by the community of Xixua\u00fa. In 2004 other villages along the Jauaper\u00ec joined the original request and since then\u00a0the inhabitants of the Rio Jauaperi and the Rio Branco,\u00a0in the states of Roraima and Amazonas, about 1.000 natives grouped in 10 villages, have militated with the support of local and international NGO\u2019s such as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/amazoniabr.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amaz\u00f4nia Onlus<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fva.org.br\/index.php\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Vitoria Amaz\u00f4nica<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socioambiental.org\/pt-br\/o-isa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ISA<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wwf.panda.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WWF Brazil<\/a>\u00a0to guarantee a long term sustainability of their forest.<\/p>\n<p>The area presents a great biodiversity and a high state of conservation, with a priceless landscape and biological value.<\/p>\n<p>A RESEX is a Conservation Unit specific to the territory of traditional extractive populations. The basic objective of this category is to conserve the livelihoods and culture of these populations, which maintains local biodiversity and the forest, and whose way of life is based on low impact fisheries and plantations, as well as collecting Brazil nuts, copaiba and fibres.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Victorious in a battle that lasted 17 years, we all look at the new phase starting now as the possible end of a cycle of conflicts and illegal exploitation of resources.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank the many people that have dreamt with us and supported our work at <a href=\"http:\/\/amazoniabr.org\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amaz\u00f4nia Onlus<\/a> during this long journey with the words of our partner Claudio Maretti, vice-president of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/World-Commissionon-Protected-Areas-IUCN\/1733844913553466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Commissionon Protected Areas of\u00a0IUCN<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThanks to each of us, and all of us, many people, but above all the native inhabitants of the forest, in every place we have been, in every position we occupy, in the way we have been able to contribute! You cannot get something important by yourself. Never! A new phase starts now!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The native inhabitants of the Brazilian Amazon are celebrating a new protected forest! 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