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The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) held, on Tuesday (17/6), meeting of alignment and presentation of results of the Forest+ Amazon project with local partners of the state of Maranhao, in the capital Sao Luis. The meeting reinforced the joint commitment to conservation of native vegetation and the strengthening of family farming as an ally of environmental policy.
The initiative was attended by representatives of MMA, the State Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources (SEMA/MA) and the State Secretariat of Family Farming (SAF/MA), as well as the projects technical team.
Through the Payment Notice for Environmental Services (PSA), focusing on Family Farming, the Floresta+ project has already promoted joint efforts in nine strategic municipalities of the state - Balsas, Riachao, Alto Parnaiba, Tasso Fragoso, Sao Raimundo das Mangabeiras, Loreto, Sambaiba, Sao Felix de Balsas and Carolina. In these actions, more than 2,000 rural environmental records (Cars) were analyzed, with 149 new registrations and 398 rectifications made.
This moment of alignment was essential to jointly reinforce the commitment to the expansion of PSA beneficiaries in Maranhao, a state that houses 26% of the Amazonian biome. The more producers are able to access the announcement, the more families will be recognized and supported by their direct contribution to the conservation of native vegetation, said the general coordinator for economic instruments for MMA deforestation instruments Mariane Nardi.
CAR is a national public registration, mandatory for all rural properties, with the purpose of integrating environmental information on properties and rural possessions, composing a database for control, monitoring, environmental and economic planning and deforestation combat.
Benefits for those who protect the forest the most
Currently, the Floresta+ Amazonian announcement has the adhesion of about 100 rural producers in Maranhao, of which 12 have already had the registration made and received the payment for environmental services, totaling approximately R 150 thousand. The others are still under analysis.
The appeal is intended for family farmers and farmers who retain areas of native vegetation in their rural properties. In all, Maranhao has over 16,000 properties with the potential to participate in the project.
The meeting also presented the results of the conservation modality, focused on the recognition and encouragement, in cash, of environmental conservation practices made voluntarily by small farmers. The action represents a concrete strategy of valuing the protagonism of family farming in the protection of the forest and in the confrontation of deforestation.
Amazon Maranhense
The so -called Maranhao Amazon holds rich biodiversity, representing 26% of the Amazon biome. It is in 62 municipalities of Maranhao and represents, in terms of biome, 34% of the state territory. Studies from the Institute of Space Research (INPE) show that the Amazon Maranhao lost more than 245 km2 of forest only in 2022. The motives of deforestation were the burned, as well as the illegal exploitation of the logging.
Forest+ Amazon
The Forest+ Amazon project is implemented by MMA, in partnership with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), with support from the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC) and Green Fund for Climate Fund Funding (Green Climate Fund - GCF), based on resources obtained by Brazil in Redd+.
